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 that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company U.S. patent 7,107,320, entitled "Data Mirroring Between Controllers in an Active-Active Controller Pair."
The patent pertains to a novel and highly efficient messaging protocol for efficient data mirroring which offers dramatic performance improvements. The technology reduces the time required for a primary controller (the target of the write operation) to mirror data over to a secondary controller, thus improving available bandwidth for both controllers.
The invention was developed by Dot Hill's engineering team at the company's Longmont, Colo. technology center. The invention is part of Dot Hill's growing patent portfolio which enables the company to continue to provide innovative products to a growing list of OEM customers.
"Dot Hill is constantly pushing the envelope to ensure optimal storage system performance and scalability to address the needs of high-volume environments and critical applications," said Jim Kuenzel, senior vice president of engineering, Dot Hill. This patented technology processes write requests more rapidly, while improving overall system performance."
About Dot Hill
Dot Hill is the market leader in providing flexible storage offerings and responsive service and support to OEMs and system integrators, from engagement through end-of-life. Founded in 1984, Dot Hill has more than two decades of expertise in developing high-quality, competitively priced storage products. Focused on providing best-in-class support for OEMs and indirect partners, the company has more than 100,000 systems in use worldwide. With its patented technology and award-winning SANnet(R) family of storage and its Dot Hill Storage Services, Dot Hill makes storage easy. Headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., Dot Hill has offices in China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States. More information is available at http://www.dothill.com.
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