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", stated 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", stated Steven 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", stated 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."