The worldwide mobile messaging market is growing quickly, and widespread adoption of new messaging services like SMS, MMS, mobile e-mail, and mobile IM is driving competition and innovation in the mobile messaging space. In response, Dot Hill Systems, a provider of SAN storage solutions, has announced two new reference platforms for OEM telecommunication customers, as well as an expansion of its alliance program.

 Dot Hill's first new reference platform enables mobile operators to incorporate Dot Hill storage into carrier-grade mobile messaging and cloud applications. This platform delivers high availability and high streaming write performance that meets demanding data capture requirements. Its other new reference platform is for network management/monitoring systems, and is designed to enable service providers to gather, store, and analyze large quantities of network data, ensuring the stability of mobile data networks.

Also, in addition to Samsung (News - Alert), Tektronix, and others, Dot Hill has reached new agreements with OEM Network Equipment Providers that will be using Dot Hill's mid-range AssuredSAN products for various mobile messaging and network management/monitoring solutions.

Jim Jonez, senior director of marketing for Dot Hill said in a statement, "We have validated the use of the award-winning AssuredSAN Pro 5000 as a high performance metadata store for these demanding environments, where customers must store and access vast amounts of text, voice, images, and video messages, created daily. The solution includes Dot Hill's tiered storage system to store metadata in front of extremely large data repositories, accessed by the open source Cassandra database and commodity servers. The value to customers includes the AssuredSAN's rock solid reliability, 'wicked fast' speed and real-time tiering, which delivers industry leading performance and value."

Dana Kammersgard, president and chief executive officer, Dot Hill Systems said, “This relationship-driven approach first fueled growth within our media and entertainment vertical and is now benefitting Dot Hill in the telecom space as we support developers leveraging the latest 4G/LTE (News - Alert) mobile network capabilities for new applications.”