Overland ARCvault Now With SAS and HH LTO-4
For its autoloaders and libraries
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on July 11, 2008 at 2:17 pmOverland Storage, Inc. announced that its ARCvault family of entry-level tape automation solutions has been enhanced with new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) connectivity and LTO-4 HH tape drives. The technology advancements reinforce ARCvault’s leading combination of storage capacity, features, reliability and affordability.
ARCvault 12 value-line autoloader, ARCvault 24 rack-optimized library and ARCvault 48 high-capacity tape library now are available with SAS interfaces for seamless compatibility with SAS-connected servers from major manufacturers such as HP, IBM and Dell. By combining the standardization and affordability of parallel SCSI with the simple connectivity of Fibre Channel, the ARCvault family delivers significant gains in efficiency, ease of use and reliability.
Additionally, the ARCvault family now supports LTO-4 HH SCSI technology, enabling users of ARCvault 24 and ARCvault 48 models to double their efficiency at a savings of 25 percent over existing LTO-4 configurations. The enhanced ARCvault family also complements Overland’s NEO SERIES tape libraries, REO SERIES( disk-based backup, ULTAMUS RAID SAN storage and recently added Snap Server NAS appliances to deliver heightened, end-to-end data protection.
According to Peri Grover, director of product management for Overland’s tape automation solutions, the latest enhancements to the ARCvault products upgrade the company’s ability to meet the ever-growing needs of small-to- medium businesses (SMBs). "Overland remains focused on bringing SMBs affordable, easy-to-use, automated backup, disaster recovery and archive solutions," she said. "These important enhancements to the ARCvault line provide seamless connectivity to the latest and greatest server technology while also delivering improvements in price/performance to ensure our customers’ data protection needs are met effectively and economically."
Availability and Pricing
The new ARCvault LTO-4 configurations are available now with a starting MSRP of $5,168.
Comments
The HH LTO-4 cartridge tape drives come from historical Overland's OEM and partner HP.
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