Overland Storage's REO SERIES VTL D2D Appliance Receives Accolades and Industry Leader Validation in Latest ESG Lab Report
06 December 2006 - 11:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
Market Leader in Cost-Effective, Flexible Backup and Recovery With
Nearly 4,000 Units Shipped Worldwide Supplies More Than 20
Petabytes of Storage for SMB Customers SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc. (NASDAQ:OVRL)
today announced the results of a new study by Enterprise Strategy
Group (ESG) that verifies the industry-leading capabilities of
Overland's REO SERIES VTL disk-based backup and recovery appliance.
ESG's Lab Validation Report cited numerous REO benefits, including
ease of installation and operation, configuration flexibility,
valued-added features, substantially improved backup and recovery
performance, investment protection as well as lowered
administrative overhead. According to ESG research, more than 80
percent of medium-sized companies surveyed are interested in some
form of disk-to-disk (D2D) backup. Their No. 1 priority is
improving backup performance while recovery reigns as one of the
biggest benefits. The challenge for many small to medium-sized
organizations, however, is backing up mission-critical data in a
24-hour period. During lab testing, it took ESG researchers two and
a half hours to back up 100 GB of data to tape, compared with five
minutes using an Overland REO 9000 with Fibre Channel connectivity
and 10 minutes using the REO 9000 with iSCSI connectivity.
Additionally, restoring a single file from a REO 9000 virtual tape
was instantaneous while recovering from virtual tape over iSCSI was
more than 200 times faster than physical tape. As part of ESG's
hands-on analysis of the REO 9000, analysts Tony Asaro, Brian
Garrett and Tony Palmer performed various tasks to obtain the
following findings: * Simplified installation enables customers of
any technical level to use REO; * REO can be configured easily as a
virtual tape library (VTL), a set of standalone tape drives or disk
volumes (LUNs); * VTL support decreases backup times by running
many backups in parallel using existing backup policies; * REO 9000
iSCSI backup to virtual tape is twice as fast as backup to physical
tape; * Dynamic Virtual Tape (DVT) is a valuable feature that
enables greater capacity utilization while simplifying management;
and * Using backup software to backup data to the REO 9000 and then
move it to physical tape was very easy and worked seamlessly
without policy changes. "While the majority of storage vendors have
focused on the high-end of the D2D backup market, Overland has done
an excellent job of providing specialized solutions targeting small
to mid-sized customers, departments within large organizations and
remote offices," said Tony Palmer, ESG lab engineer, "The REO
SERIES appliances are easy to use and provide excellent performance
for both backup and recovery of data. In fact, our lab testing
showed that using the REO 9000 can be hundreds of times faster than
recovering from tape." A wide range of customer implementations
showcase the many performance benefits of Overland's REO 9000,
along with reinforcing the advantages of seamless
disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) data protection, including: * SkyWest:
Largest regional airline reduces backup time and administration by
more than 80 percent using REO 9000/NEO tape library D2D2T
solution; * Kaufman and Canoles: Top-five law firm in Virginia
relies on REO 9000 VTL to backup replicated remote data, then
archives all backups on a NEO tape library, saving thousands of
dollars by eliminating remote tape drives; * Seiz Printing:
Tech-savvy printer takes advantage of REO 9000's flexible
architecture to configure appliance as both VTLs for backups and
disk volumes for secondary storage as needed; and * University of
Wisconsin Credit Union: Full-service credit union with more than
100,000 members uses REO 9000 to slash backup time by nearly 75
percent while cutting restore time from two-plus hours to one
minute or less. "The latest ESG lab report confirms that the highly
versatile, easy-to-use REO SERIES VTL disk-based backup and
recovery appliance is ideally suited for mid-range data
protection," said Michael Kerman, vice president and chief strategy
officer of Overland Storage. "As a result, REO continues to
dominate as the market leader in D2D backup with our number of
customers continuing to grow rapidly worldwide." Each REO SERIES
appliance can be configured as a VTL with up to 32 virtual tape
drives, 180 virtual cartridges and four library partitions.
Additionally, the flexible device can be configured with up to 64
virtual storage devices, which can comprise any mix of virtual tape
drives and/or disk volumes. About Overland Storage Now in its 26th
year, Overland Storage is a market leader and innovative provider
of simply protected storage solutions -- smart data protection
appliances and software modules designed to work together,
affordably, to ensure that information is automatically safe,
readily available and always there. Overland's award-winning data
protection solutions include the ULTAMUS SERIES(TM) of protected
primary storage appliances; the REO SERIES(R) of disk-based backup,
recovery appliances and VTL; and the NEO SERIES(R) and ARCvault(TM)
tape automation solutions. Overland sells its products through
leading OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and
value-added resellers. For more information, visit Overland's web
site at http://www.overlandstorage.com/. Except for the factual
statements made herein, the information contained in this news
release consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks,
uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Words
and expressions reflecting optimism and satisfaction with current
prospects, as well as words such as "believe," "intends,"
"estimates," expects," "projects," plans," "anticipates" and
variations thereof, identify forward-looking statements, but their
absence does not mean that a statement is not forward looking. Such
forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance and
the company's actual results could differ materially from those
contained in such statements. Factors that could cause or
contribute to such differences include risks and uncertainties
associated with the company's acquisition of Zetta Systems, Inc.,
including possible integration difficulties and successful
execution of the business plan related to the acquisition; possible
delays in new product introductions and shipments by the company
including the new ULTAMUS and ARCvault lines, including versions
subject to the company's new OEM contracts; possible delays in
enhancements to the company's REO line; market acceptance of the
company's new product offerings; the timing and market acceptance
of new product introductions by competitors; the speed at which HP
transitions from the products it currently buys from the company to
its next-generation products to be purchased from another vendor;
delays, unbudgeted expenses, inefficiencies and production problems
that may result from the transition of manufacturing to
Sanmina-SCI; worldwide information technology spending levels;
unexpected shortages of critical components; rescheduling or
cancellation of customer orders; loss of a major customer; the
timing and amount of licensing royalties; general competition and
price pressures in the marketplace; the company's ability to
control costs and expenses; and general economic conditions.
Reference is also made to other factors set forth in the company's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the
"Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis" and other
sections of the company's Form 10-K currently on file with the SEC.
These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this
release and the company undertakes no obligation to update publicly
any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events
or circumstances after the date of this release. Overland, Overland
Storage, ARCvault SERIES, ULTAMUS SERIES, REO SERIES, NEO SERIES
and PROTECTION OS are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Overland Storage, Inc. DATASOURCE: Overland Storage, Inc. CONTACT:
Sue Hetzel of HetzelMeade Communications, +1-760-434-9927, , for
Overland Storage, Inc. Web site: http://www.overlandstorage.com/
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