Overland Storage Assigned Patent

Overland Storage, Inc. has been granted U.S. Patent No. 8,296,398 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering its clustered file system technology related to large-scale computer file storage, and more particularly to storage of large numbers of computer files using techniques that provide scalable, reliable, and efficient disk operations on those files.

Eric Kelly, president and CEO of Overland, said: "The driving force of any technology company is its commitment to innovate, and this most recent patent we have received that covers our SnapScale clustered NAS solutions will enable us to continue advancing our vision to deliver next generation storage products for the small, medium, and distributed enterprise markets. Our metadata architecture coupled with a peer set design enables the distribution and separation of metadata from user data across nodes and peer sets to provide linear scalability and improved performance with self-healing intelligence for the highest level of reliability."