Alliant Techsystems Deploys Overland REO, NEO and ULTAMUS

Overland Storage, Inc. announced that Alliant Techsystems (ATK), a leading
provider of advanced weapon and space systems with $4.1 billion in annual
sales, has deployed multiple tiers of the company’s data protection
appliances, comprising REO SERIES 4000 disk-based backup, recovery and VTL
appliances; a NEO SERIES 2000 scalable tape library and an ULTAMUS RAID
4800 high-capacity storage array.

At the Baltimore, Md.-based Tactical Propulsion and Controls (TP&C)
Division of ATK’s Mission Systems Group, a service-oriented, performance-based
data protection and disaster recovery model safeguards soaring storage
requirements. In supporting its division headquarters in Baltimore, an
operating unit in Elkton, Md., and a remote location in California, 150 TBs of
storage have been allocated for active, production data along with data
backups and resource volumes.

As early proponents of disk-based backup and recovery, ATK initially
deployed Overland’s REO VTLs along with a scalable NEO 2000 tape library for
disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection. VMware and FalconStor’s IPStor SANs were
embraced for server and storage virtualization. When an EMC Clariion SAN
became oversaturated due to aggressive data growth, ATK once again turned to
Overland Storage for another layer of data protection. In early 2008, the TP&C
division deployed Overland’s ULTAMUS RAID 4800 with 1 TB drives for up to
48 TBs of nearline storage capacity within an industry-leading density of only
4u of rack space.

In side-by-side testing, Overland’s ULTAMUS RAID 4800 sustained equal or
better performance than ATK’s EMC array. The ULTAMUS RAID also offers
energy-efficient hardware components and power-saving technology to yield up
to 40 percent savings in power consumption without impacting I/O, application
uptime or performance. "With ULTAMUS RAID 4800’s combined density and price
point, I can’t imagine a better value on the market today," says Peter
McCallum, storage and server administrator for ATK’s Elkton location. "We
attained roughly twice the storage for a third of the price of a comparable
tier-one storage solution, which is a phenomenal advantage."

ATK now can go back 60 days and recover files in less than 10 minutes by
restoring a FalconStor snapshot from its Overland ULTAMUS RAID. A second
ULTAMUS RAID 4800 is being added for load balancing and capacity expansion to
meet the growing need for offsite replication mirrors. By dynamically scaling
two ULTAMUS RAID 4800 appliances together, ATK can acquire nearly 200 TBs of
storage for about $100,000 less than a tier-one 50 TB storage array.

According to Vern LoForti, president and CEO of Overland Storage, the
ULTAMUS RAID 4800 is ideally suited for managing data growth as a result of
increased storage consolidation, server virtualization, regulatory compliance,
digital content creation and application file expansion. "Our ULTAMUS RAID
4800 with 1 TB drives offers storage-constrained organizations and
budget-restricted governmental agencies the latest in high-speed storage
architectures and expansion-on-demand capabilities," he says. "ATK is an
excellent example of how an organization can leverage ULTAMUS RAID nearline
storage as well as our REO and NEO appliances to add multiple layers of highly
flexible and scalable data protection."

ULTAMUS RAID 4800 with 1 TB drives is available for a starting MSRP of
$47,934.

Tactical Propulsion and Controls (TP&C)
Division of ATK’s Mission Systems Group

Overland Storage, Inc.