Dot Hill Storage Systems Certified By FalconStor For Delivery Of Rapid, Reliable Data Recovery For A Variety Of IT Environments

Addressing the industry's demand for high-performance and high-availability storage solutions for mission-critical applications, Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a market leader in enterprise-quality entry-level storage solutions, and FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), a leading developer of network storage software solutions, today announced that the Dot Hill SANnet II line of storage systems has been certified with FalconStor's IPStor Enterprise Edition and VirtualTape Library (VTL) software.

These certifications help ensure that customers can obtain comprehensive data protection for storage area network (SAN) solutions by deploying the companies' products together to address rapid recovery needs and shrinking backup windows, as well as the simplification and scalability of the entire backup and recovery process.

"FalconStor is working with Dot Hill, via the certifications, to present greater benefits to customers by promoting superior interoperability in the storage solutions we each bring to the marketplace, with an emphasis on business continuity and high data availability," said Bernie Wu, vice president of business development at FalconStor. "Today's announcement further supports our commitment to high-value, customer-focused, enterprise-wide storage solutions by FalconStor technology with world-class hardware."

With uptime tested and proven at 99.9998+ percent, SANnet II delivers the highest level of availability. SANnet II gives customers a rugged, scalable external storage solution with high-speed FC connections, a compact 2U enclosure, NEBS Level 3 certification, and AC or DC power options.

"By certifying our products with leaders like FalconStor, Dot Hill can continue to alleviate challenges that our customers face and allow us to provide faster and more efficient ways to store and recover data within their storage networks," said Mike Heumann, vice president of marketing for Dot Hill. "Our relationship with FalconStor is another example of how Dot Hill aims to make it as easy as possible for its customers to fulfill their storage needs."

About FalconStor VirtualTape Library
FalconStor's VirtualTape Library software consolidates the management of backup resources while enhancing the reliability of backup operations and accelerating the speed of recovery. FalconStor's VTL leverages and provisions industry standard high-speed disk as virtual tape drives/libraries to backup servers attached to a SAN via Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI or NDMP protocol, to maximize performance and return on investment.

About FalconStor IPStor Enterprise Edition
IPStor software delivers an intelligent SAN/NAS infrastructure across heterogeneous environments by providing a comprehensive set of storage services for enterprise applications -- simplifying management, ensuring data availability and recoverability, and maximizing performance.

About Dot Hill SANnet II FC
SANnet II FC is a Fibre Channel SAN solution with two redundant hot-swappable FC RAID controllers. A powerful, flexible and highly scalable solution, the SANnet II FC can expand to 28 terabytes and is available in RAID and JBOD models.

About Dot Hill SANnet II SCSI
SANnet II SCSI storage solutions directly connect to single, dual or clustered open systems servers without the complexity of storage networking. Set up and installation is uncomplicated and straightforward. With two Ultra160 SCSI host connections and redundant or single controller options, SANnet II SCSI storage solutions deliver fast performance and high availability.

About FalconStor
FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC) is a leading developer of innovative network storage software that optimizes the protection and availability of enterprise and SMB data and applications, ensuring nonstop business productivity while simplifying storage management and backup to reduce operational costs. FalconStor's award-winning solutions -- IPStor Enterprise Edition, VirtualTape Library, and iSCSI Storage Server -- are available from major OEMs, system integrators, and resellers, and are deployed worldwide by governments, educational institutions, and Fortune 1000 enterprises across industries including aerospace, energy production, financial services, healthcare, law, manufacturing, and telecommunications.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, NY, with offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific regions including Paris, Tokyo and Taiwan. FalconStor is an active member of the Technical Support Alliance Network (TSANet), Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA). For more information, visit www.falconstor.com or call 1-631-777-5188.

About Dot Hill
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, RIO Xtreme storage solutions, SANscape storage management software, SANpath storage networking software and professional training, support and service. For more information, visit Dot Hill on the Web at www.dothill.com.