CARLSBAD, Calif., May 31, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Dot Hill (Nasdaq: HILL) today announced that it has completed interoperability testing of its SANnet(R) II Fibre Channel (FC) storage networking solution for use with VERITAS Volume Manager, Cluster Server SANPoint Control, Storage Foundation(TM) Cluster File System and Storage Foundation(TM) for Oracle RAC software products, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

"The certification of the SANnet II Fibre Channel system with the products from VERITAS provides an industry-leading business continuity solution for our channel customers that use Linux," said Mike Heumann, vice president of marketing, Dot Hill. "As a member of the VERITAS Enabled Technology Partner Program, we will continue to work to ensure compatibility with VERITAS products across the operating systems required by our customers."

Under the VERITAS Enabled Technology Partner Program, products are jointly tested and validated to help customers manage complex, heterogeneous storage environments, ease multi-vendor implementations and reduce costs through improved storage utilization and management.

"We believe that the certification of Dot Hill's SANnet II array with VERITAS products for Red Hat Linux provides our customers great value," said Toru Yoshida, senior executive director of NS Solutions, Japan's largest system integrator and a strategic partner of Dot Hill. "This latest certification enables us to confidently recommend solutions using Dot Hill and VERITAS products to our Linux customers."

"Dot Hill's membership in the VERITAS Enabled Technology Partner Program and the testing efforts that have been completed will help assure customers that Dot Hill storage networking solutions are compatible with VERITAS products," said Kenneth Jensen, director, VERITAS Enabled Program, VERITAS Software. "Dot Hill's qualification with VERITAS is another important step in our endeavor to provide heterogeneous solutions to meet our customers' storage management needs."

The SANnet II family of storage solutions provides industry leading 99.9998+ percent uptime in compact, rack-optimized packages. SANnet II brings carrier-grade reliability and enterprise-class features to open systems platforms. The common modular architecture of the SANnet II family provides seamless scalability for future growth within storage networking and direct attached environments. All SANnet II products feature hot-swappable, field-replaceable components including drives, controllers, power supplies, fans and event monitoring units.

Dot Hill Systems Corp. is a leader in the innovative design and delivery of storage networking solutions to channel partners worldwide. Its products include the SANnet II family of storage systems, the RIO Xtreme(TM) storage servers, SANscape(R) storage management software, SANpath(R) storage networking software and professional training, support and service. For more information, visit Dot Hill on the web at www.dothill.com.

Dot Hill, the Dot Hill logo, SANnet, SANpath, SANscape, RIVA and RIO Xtreme and are trademarks of Dot Hill Systems Corp. All other products and names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Certain statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical fact are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements include the future availability of SANnet II systems, the performance and reliability of such systems in any particular environment and any increase in revenue due to the VERITAS certification of SANnet II systems. The risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: any unforeseen technological, intellectual property, supply or engineering issues and changing customer preferences. However, there are many other risks not listed here that may affect the future business of Dot Hill, as well as the forward-looking statements contained herein. To learn about such risks and uncertainties, you should read the risk factors set forth in Dot Hill's public filings with the SEC, including the Forms 10-K and 10-Q most recently filed by Dot Hill. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Dot Hill undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.

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