Overland Into Enterprise SAN

Overland Storage Inc. announced a family of
SnapSAN solutions for HPC.

5000
Scalable to 288TBs, the SnapSAN 3000 and SnapSAN 5000 are redundant systems
with 99.999% availability and set a new benchmark for enterpriseautomation
and performance capabilities.

With an interface for performing, non-disruptive data
movement, the new SnapSAN features multidimensional tiers that maintain
performance and provisioning without IT intervention. For enterprise protection
without the incremental costs usually associated with such capabilities,
both products come with real time replication, volume cloning, snapshots and
thin provisioning.

Certified
for Citrix, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMWare, the SnapSAN 3000 and SnapSAN 5000
also have built-in VMware API support, as well as a vCenter plugin for
integrated administration. Suited for I/O intensive applications, virtualized
and private cloud environments, as well as regulatory compliance, the SnapSAN
allows administrators to provision storage to meet application-driven and
compliance requirements.

"With the SnapSAN 3000 and 5000, Overland has brought many
highly advanced storage features to the mid-market with an all-inclusive price
model that is welcomed by customers. The advanced features are highly valuable
and usually associated with much more expensive systems," said
Randy Kerns, senior strategist, Evaluator Group.

"Our clients are having to manage growing
amounts of data, and must meet increasing performance needs with limited IT
budgets and resources," said Robert Lennon, president and CEO, SANdirect.com. "We’re excited to be partnering with Overland Storage to deliver the SnapSAN 3000 and 5000 to
our customers. These new solutions offer the latest in data storage technology,
including advanced automation and performance features, at a significantly
lower price point than any similar solution on the market."

Use Cases for the SnapSAN Solutions:

Automation Capabilities Enable Better
Amortization of Private Cloud Infrastructure: Automation
features empower businesses and service-based organizations to increase
the density of hosted virtual machines. AutoTier and AutoTune enable
companies to monitor data utilization and optimize storage tiers without
requiring intervention. AutoCache makes use of SSD technology by caching
all writes and avoiding I/O latencies associated with hard drives.

SSDs Enable Unparalleled Performance for
Virtualized or I/O Intensive Environments: AutoTier allows for efficient
use of resources by application, while AutoCache eliminates I/O
bottlenecks improving data-access performance. Increasing file-level
performance by as much as 200-800% and overall application performance by
30-40%, SnapSAN leverages the benefits of virtualization. Whether
using SSD technology as primary storage or data caching, the use of SSDs
has a positive impact on power efficiencies and performance.

Features to Meet the Demanding Compliance
Requirements: A solution for companies that must meet regulatory needs, the
SnapSAN 3000 ensures that base compliance requirements are met at a price
point that fits within tight budgets. For companies that are faced with
Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), HIPPA and EPA regulations, the SnapSAN 5000 features
WORM capabilities enabling companies to collect, protect and archive
compliance-based information that is unchangeable and can be made
accessible.

SnapSAN 3000 and 5000 Features
and Benefits:

Reliability and Availability: With 99.999%
availability, both systems provide active-active controllers, on-board
flash memory for added cache protection, redundant power supplies, battery
backed cache and advanced drive and RAID error detection.

Performance: With 10K 2.5"
SAS, 15K SAS and SSD options, as well as support for single or dual 1GbE
or 10GbE iSCSI, 8Gb FC and 6Gb SAS controllers the SnapSAN delivers the
performance and flexibility that businesses need to support online
services including cloud storage, high performance database applications
and Exchange.

Data Protection: With real time
remote replication, volume cloning, snapshots, thin provisioning, RAID
protection and encrypted drive support, the SnapSAN supports BC and
increased backup efficiency, while ensuring application consistency during
backup and replication.

SnapSAN 5000 delivers performance and automation, featuring:

AutoCache: Designed to support primary storage
requirements, automatic caching provides accelerated performance for I/O
intensive environments, virtualization and database applications with up
to 800GB of additional SSD cache memory.

AutoTune: Performance
tuning features provide real-time performance monitoring giving
administrators the ability to visualize performance data and assists with
performance analysis that can be leveraged by the AutoTier feature.

AutoTier: Automatic tiering enables users to
create different tiers of storage within the same system for primary or
nearline storage deployments. Performance levels of each volume are
monitored and data is automatically moved to the faster storage pool
depending on usage without intervention.

Compliance: WORM technology protects against
any intentional or unintentional changes to data ensuring that regulatory
and corporate requirements are achieved. In addition, the SnapSAN utilizes
policy driven data retention periods giving the high level of compliance.

"Our
new offering takes the SnapSAN family of products to unprecedented levels with
industry leading features that provide the instant accessibility and the
performance required for data intensive business applications," said
Joe Disher, director, product marketing disk products, Overland Storage. "We
continue to focus on creating solutions that provide our customers with maximum
value and performance while maintaining the ability to be easily deployed and
managed within their existing infrastructure."

Pricing and Availability
With 24x7x4-hour on-site service and installation
available worldwide, SnapSAN 3000 and 5000 are available with a starting price
of $13,999 through worldwide sales channel.