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posted on 24 June 2008 09:44

Carlsbad, Ca. – June 24, 2008 – Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a market leader in providing flexible storage offerings and responsive service and support to OEMs and system integrators (SIs), today announced it has signed an agreement with Markham, Ontario-based NetStor Technology Group, Inc. to represent Dot Hill storage solutions to the Canadian marketplace.

Under the terms of the agreement, NetStor Technology Group will market the Dot Hill line of RAID storage solutions, based on the R/Evolution™ (Rapid Evolution) architecture, to OEMs, resellers and end-users throughout Canada. Enabling customers to rapidly customize storage solutions through a configure-to-product model, Dot Hill's family of R/Evolution products includes the 2730 Fibre Channel offering, the 2330 iSCSI RAID array, the 2530 SAS RAID array, and Dot Hill's 5730 midrange Fibre Channel solution.

Representing a broad range of solutions in disk, tape automation, networking and storage management software, NetStor Technology Group drives incremental Canadian business through sales, marketing, and support logistics for data storage and networking vendors through its authorized channel partners.

“For technology vendors that choose to pursue this market, Canada represents a tremendous opportunity,” said Steven Cheung, managing director for NetStor Technology Group. “NetStor is already seeing interest and acceptance of Dot Hill’s unique, modular R/Evolution Architecture in the Canadian telecommunications and government sectors,” said Cheung. “Our goal as a company is to achieve a 50 percent growth rate over the next few years, and we see our partnership with Dot Hill as key to attaining this goal.”

“Given the high level of acceptance we have had from OEMs in the United States and Europe, it was a logical next step to introduce our portfolio of storage offerings into Canada,” said Dana Kammersgard, president and chief executive officer, Dot Hill. “With more than 25 years of experience in the Canadian marketplace, NetStor Technology Group offers Canadian customers turnkey storage networking solutions from best-of-breed storage offerings. We’re very enthusiastic about entering the Canadian market through our partnership with NetStor Technology Group.”

About Dot Hill
Delivering innovative technology and global support, Dot Hill empowers the OEM community to bring unique storage solutions to market, quickly, easily and cost-effectively. Offering high performance and industry-leading uptime, Dot Hill's RAID technology is the foundation for best-in-class storage solutions offering enterprise-class security, availability and data protection. The company's products are in use today by the world's leading service and equipment providers, common carriers, advanced technology and telecommunications companies as well as government agencies.

Dot Hill solutions are certified to meet rigorous industry standards and military specifications, as well as RoHS and WEEE international environmental standards. Headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States. For more information, visit us at http://www.dothill.com/.

About NetStor Technology Group
NetStor Technology Group Inc. (NTG) is a total service data storage and networking manufacturer’s representative in the information technology industry. NTG’s services include sales-cycle management, marketing programs execution, and support logistics reporting. NTG is headquartered in Markham, Ontario, and provides coverage to all areas of Canada. NTG provides sales and services to all levels of government through our reseller partners.

NetStor Technology Group Inc. represents leading storage manufacturers and partners with consultants, SIs, VARs and resellers to engineer data storage solutions and services for the Canadian corporate marketplace. These dynamic relationships enable our partners to provide complete and comprehensive solutions in the networking storage and SAN environments.

NTG markets directly, but does not sell directly to end-users. All fulfillments are pushed through partners. NetStor is a member of SNIA Canada. For more information, go to www.netstortech.com.

^{[Formatted by Wendy Matthews.]}