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Investor Overview:
Cloverleaf Communications Acquisition
January 7, 2010
Exhibit 99.1


Safe Harbor
With the exception of historical information, the matters
disclosed in this presentation are forward-looking statements.
Such statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the
forward-looking statements.  Potential risks and uncertainties
are described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including its Forms 10-K, 8-K and 10-Q.
These forward-looking statements represent the Company’s
judgment as of the date of this presentation.  The Company
disclaims, however, any intent or obligation to update these
forward-looking statements.
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Executive Summary
HILL has substantially completed Step 1 Transformation
Non-GAAP* EBITDA positive Q309
Addressed revenue concentration problem
Launched new product lines based on owned IP
Dramatically retooled our supply chain & lowered cost basis
Now Begun Step 2 Transformation –
margin/valuation growth
Board approved initiatives that include investments in SW
Could take us to peer group comparable valuations
HILL Products/Vision + CL Products/Vision a Natural Fit
In line with our strategic vision
Accelerates time to market (ttm) by 2 years versus in-house development
Expands total available market (tam) with adjacent high margin markets
HILL has done it before -
successfully
Acquisitions and monetization of Chaparral and Ciprico
in similar situations
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* Non-GAAP:
Excludes the effects of impairment to goodwill or long lived assets, issuing warrants to a customer, stock-based compensation expense,
restructuring and severance costs, one-time legal settlement benefits and foreign currency adjustments and are not in accordance with U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles (GAAP).


Cloverleaf Background
Corporate
Storage virtualization provider, with existing products installed at 25 customers
2009 revenues of about $1M
Founded
in
2001,
backed
by
VC
firms
in
U.S.
and
Israel
over
$43M invested over 9 years
28
full-time
staff,
primarily
located
in
Israel
24 in development and test engineering
Products
Core technology from Elta
Systems & Israeli Aerospace Industries
Inherited IP of hundreds of development man-years
I
S
Network
(
),
a
storage
software
virtualization
engine
Enabling heterogeneous storage infrastructure managed from single pane of glass
Scalability up to 12 Petabytes
of virtualized storage
New iSN
Lite
product will extend access to SME and remote offices
All
IP
belongs
to
Cloverleaf
soon Dot Hill
Customers
Prestigious list of customers in finance, government, legal, education markets
Deployed in large, complex military/defense installations
Sold via OEMs and channel partners in US and EMEA
Solutions capable of scaling non-disruptively to meet enterprise level needs
4
ntelligent
torage
iSN


Integrator
HILL’s Step 1 Transformation 2006-2009
In transition from:
Innovator
Single
Customer
Diversified
Customer Base
Onshore
Operations
Offshore Asian
Manufacturing
Rebuild the Foundation
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Revenue Diversification
Opportunity for revenue growth as legacy product sales have been
replaced
$63.6
$54.3
$53.9
$72.4
$76.6
$71.0
$52.8
$51.8
$45.7
$56.2
$53.4
$0
$20
$40
$60
$80
Q107
Q207
Q307
Q407
Q108
Q208
Q308
Q408
Q109
Q209
Q309
Legacy
HP
Others
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HW Centric
HILL’s
Step 2 Transformation 2010-2012
In transition from:
OEM
Customers
Channels
Storage Arrays
Adjacent
Markets
SW Centric
Remodel/Upgrade the House
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Launch Formal Channel Program
GOAL:
Diversify Revenues at higher margins
Provide smoothing function to OEM revenues
Add potential Professional Services revenues
Move up the Software (SW) Value Chain
GOAL:
Make SW a material portion of revenue and margin in 3 years
More Firmware and Embedded Data Management Services (DMS)
Server based DMS ‘on top of’
RAIDCore
Standalone Storage related SW
Move into Adjacent Higher Margin Markets
GOAL:
Diversify Revenues at higher margins
Standalone Storage appliance market
Unified Storage Market
HILL Step 2 Strategy 2010-2012
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Cloverleaf Addresses All Three Strategic Initiatives


Current Markets Served
Source: IDC, Gartner Dataquest and Dot Hill estimates
9
Dot Hill presently serves the entry level and lower mid range SAN disk array markets
Continued growth expected in our core business


Target Markets
Source: IDC, Gartner Dataquest and Dot Hill estimates
10
Cloverleaf’s products address a multi-billion dollar storage software market
Most significant growth comes from replication markets, driven by compliance and data retention
policies –
24.5% GAGR 2008-2013
Heterogeneous and unified virtualized storage are key enablers for growth


Mitigates Risk and Cost of In-House Development
Projected internal development of 3 years for similar product
Allows us to  immediately start to compare against CML & FALC offerings
Beyond our Internal 3 Year Software Development Plan
All
the
basics
-
Snaps,
VolCopy,
Mirror,
Synch/Asynch
Rep,
Thin
&
Tiered
provisioning
But done across any
storage vendor –
i.e. mix and match
And
NAS
and
SAN
blend
-
Supports
Unified
Storage
Solution
emerging
as
new
trend
Accelerates TTM for comparable product by ~2 years
Accelerates margin growth and Step 2 Transformation
Acquisition of Technology and Technologists
Identical
philosophy
to
Chaparral
and
Ciprico
acquisitions
Solid Data Management/Data Recovery Software
DHS monitoring Cloverleaf for 3+ years
Allows for Penetration of the Incremental, Standalone Storage Resource
Management market
Adjacent
high
margin
market
served
by
FALC,
DataCore
and
LSI
(StoreAge)
Cloverleaf Rationale
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12
Very Robust suite of product features
Appliance based –
or SW only using OEM commercial servers
Based on standard off-the-shelf Intel architecture
All features support NAS/SAN and any
storage array
No server based agent SW required
Single Pane, common user interface across all storage and services
HA/DR support with a pair of nodes
Heterogeneous
Snaps, VolCopy, Split Mirror, fCDP
Heterogeneous
Thin provisioning, Automated Tiered Provisioning
Heterogeneous
Asynchronous and synchronous replication
Data migration from any storage array to any storage array
Heterogeneous
Virtualized storage pooling across physical arrays
FC, CIFS/NFS support (iSCSI
Q2 2010, FCOE Q4 2010)
Support for clustering up to 12 nodes for near linear performance
improvements
Existing Cloverleaf Products
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Potential New Products
Near term –
6 to 12 months
Standalone
storage
management
appliance
based
on
iSN
lite
Bundled appliance + Dot Hill storage solutions
Data migration appliance
Next 12-24 months
Unified NAS/SAN appliance + storage
OEM software or bundled channel product
Future
Unified and fully integrated modular storage platforms
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Standalone
SAN Bundle
Fully Integrated
Integrated
Software
13


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Own RAID IP/Bundles
Host Interfaces (FC, iSCSI, LAN)
Ease of Use/Automation
Remote Data Replication/DR
Snapshots
Data De-duplication
CDP/near CDP
Data Migration
Tiered Storage
Thin Provisioning
Unified NAS/SAN Storage
Storage Virtualization
Heterogeneous
Feature
Dot Hill
iSN
DotHill
2/5000
LSI
Falcon-
stor
Datacore
Compel-
lent
iSN
Competitive Comparison


Merger Consideration
Total deal value $12 million, 7.5% employee carve out
$2.5m in cash
Approx $8.78 million in unregistered common stock valued at
30 day average closing stock price of $1.851
Approx $0.72 million be settled in restricted shares that will
vest over two years and issued from Dot Hill ESOP
Merger consideration to be adjusted up or down to reflect
12/31/2009 Net Book value
Note: Merger consideration subject to adjustments based on the amount of outstanding liabilities of Cloverleaf as of
the closing of the Merger, transaction expenses incurred by Cloverleaf related to the Merger, a net book value
balance sheet adjustment based upon the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of Cloverleaf as of December 31,
2009 and escrow provisions. In addition, there may be a post-closing net book value balance sheet adjustment to
the consideration, payable in cash and stock, based upon the audited consolidated balance sheet of Cloverleaf as of
December 31, 2009.
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Valuation Considerations
Technology Purchase not for customers and revenue
Internal
development
of
product
with
similar
feature
set
estimated
2 to 3x merger consideration with 3-4 year development schedule
Recent comparables of Israeli companies sold with similar products
StoreAge
sold for $50 million to LSI
Kaysha
sold for $153 million to EMC
Cloverleaf acquisition enables technology purchase today at a fraction of the
cost of an organic development effort with new products ready for launch in
6-12 months, thus accelerating time to market by two years and significantly
reducing development schedule and scope risk.
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Public Company Comparables*
Compellent
[CML]
3PAR
[PAR]
Isilon
[ISLN]
Falconstor
[FALC]
Double
Take
[DBTK]
Dot Hill
[HILL]
Current Market Cap
$701M
$752
$446M
$185M
$222M
$95M
Annualized Revenues
$124M
$186M
$120M
$94M
$84M
$235M
Last Q Revenue
$32M
$46M
$31M
$22M
$21M
$64M
Price to Sales (TTM)
6.05
3.92
3.77
2.02
2.58
0.38
Enterprise Value/Revenue (TTM)
5.53
3.37
3.12
1.51
1.54
0.14
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*Table
as
of
Dec
31
st
,
2009
and
graphs
as
of
Sep
30
th
,
2009.
Price to Sales Trends (TTM)
Enterprise Value/Revenue (TTM)
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Financial Model Implications
Financial Model Implications
*Industry consists of the peer set we previously defined: CPL, FALC, PAR, LSI
More comprehensive model at next earnings call
Core Business + Strategic Investments (Channel Program + RAIDCore
+ Cloverleaf)
Core business (Storage Arrays to OEM’s): significant improvement over last 12 months. 
Expect a break-even to positive non-GAAP EBITDA in 2010
Channel Program: Should have positive non-GAAP EBITDA in 2010 depending on
revenue ramp
RAIDCore: Unlikely to be non-GAAP EBITDA positive in 2010
Cloverleaf: Unlikely to be non-GAAP EBITDA positive in 2010
Expect 2010  overall to be non-GAAP EBITDA negative but with
improvement over 2009
Expect to fund as much of the strategic investment as possible with core operating
results
Non-GAAP:
Excludes the effects of impairment to goodwill or long lived assets, issuing warrants to a customer, stock-based compensation expense, restructuring and severance
costs, one-time legal settlement benefits and foreign currency adjustments and are not in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
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Executive Summary
HILL has substantially completed Step 1 Transformation
Non-GAAP* EBITDA positive Q309
Addressed revenue concentration problem
Launched new product lines based on owned IP
Dramatically retooled our supply chain & lowered cost basis
Now Begun Step 2 Transformation –
margin/valuation growth
Board approved initiatives that include investments in SW
Could take us to peer group comparable valuations
HILL Products/Vision + CL Products/Vision a Natural Fit
In line with our strategic vision
Accelerates time to market (ttm) by 2 years versus in-house development
Expands total available market (tam) with adjacent high margin markets
HILL has done it before -
successfully
Acquisitions
of
monetization
of
Chaparral
and
Ciprico
in
similar
situations
19
* Non-GAAP:
Excludes the effects of impairment to goodwill or long lived assets, issuing warrants to a customer, stock-based compensation expense,
restructuring and severance costs, one-time legal settlement benefits and foreign currency adjustments and are not in accordance with U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles (GAAP).