Overland Assigned Two Patents

Tape library emulation with automatic configuration and data retention
Overland Storage, Inc., San Diego, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,751,759) developed by Victoria Gonzalez, Escondido, CA, and Sergio Encarnacao, San Diego, CA, for the “tape library emulation with automatic configuration and data retention.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disk-based emulation of tape libraries is provided with features that allow easier management and administration of a backup system and also allow increased flexibility to both archive data on tape at a remote location and also have fast restore access to archived data files. Features include automatic emulation of physical libraries, and the retention and write protection of virtual tapes that correspond to exported physical tapes.”

The patent application was filed on Sept. 13, 2012 (13/613,373).

Tape emulating disk-based storage system
with automatically resized emulated tape capacity
Overland Storage, Inc., San Diego, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,731,897) developed by four co-inventors for a “tape emulating disk based storage system and method with automatically resized emulated tape capacity.”

The co-inventors are John E. Matze, Poway, CA, Michael H. Reider, Escondido, CA, Kenneth David Geist, and Daniel Morgan Davies, San Diego, CA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office state: “A data protection and storage system includes an array of disk drives for data storage. Data is received for storage on the disk drive via an interface that is configured to emulate a tape drive interface. A virtual tape data structure is created and stored on the disk drives. The allocated capacity of the virtual tape is dynamically and transparently alterable in response to data storage demand within the virtual tape.”

The patent application was filed on June 9, 2010 (12/796,882).