Dot Hill Systems
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer storage |
| Predecessor | Artecon, Inc.; Box Hill Systems Corp. |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Carlsbad, California , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Computer storage hardware and software, storage arrays, backup software, OEM tape libraries |
| Parent | Seagate Technology (from 2015) |
Dot Hill Systems Corp. was a producer of computer storage area network solutions, delivering both computer hardware and software tailored for various scales of computer data storage infrastructures. The company emerged following the acquisition of Artecon, Inc. (based in Carlsbad, California) by Box Hill Systems Corp (headquartered in New York). After the merger, Box Hill, which traded on the NYSE under the ticker BHSC, rebranded as Dot Hill Systems Corp and adopted the symbol HILL. Prior to the merger, Box Hill's portfolio included hardware products such as backup software and OEM tape libraries sourced from ATL Odetics and StorageTek, whereas Artecon focused on drive array solutions certified for NEBS. During 1998–1999, Box Hill encountered difficulties because its primary fibre channel product did not deliver the expected features and depended on software RAID, performing effectively only in mirroring. Following the acquisition, the headquarters relocated to Carlsbad, with a strategic shift away from backup and tape offerings; this transition was accompanied by major leadership changes as Artecon's management assumed control.
In 2004, Dot Hill expanded by acquiring Chaparral Network Storage, a storage system manufacturer founded in 2000 and located in Longmont, Colorado. By 2010, the majority of Dot Hill’s operations in Carlsbad were transferred to Longmont. Throughout this period, the company remained publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol HILL.
Dot Hill’s product lineup supports multiple interfaces such as Fibre Channel (FC), Ethernet-based Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI), and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). Their offerings encompass both hard drives and solid-state drives (SSDs), featuring storage arrays compatible with various RAID configurations including 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, and 60. Their data center storage management software operates across platforms like Windows, Linux distributions (RHEL, SUSE), Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Oracle's Solaris, as well as virtualization environments such as XenServer and VMware ESX. Supported host interfaces include SSD, SAS, and SATA technologies.
In October 2015, Dot Hill was acquired by Seagate Technology.