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Overland Storage Named Industry
Leader in iSCSI Disk-to-Disk Storage
REO 4000 Price/Performance
Ratio 'Hard To Beat'
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage
Inc.
(Nasdaq:
OVRL), the leading provider of backup and recovery
solutions, has
shipped more units and terabytes of iSCSI-based Disk-to-Disk
(D2D) backup this
year than any other vendor in the industry, according to a
viewpoint released
by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). The report, which
highlights the success
of the REO 4000 high-performance disk-based backup and
recovery appliance,
states that Overland Storage has "smartly combined D2D
backup, iSCSI and S-ATA
drives within an appliance that has a price/performance
ratio that is hard to
beat."
"Overland has demonstrated its leadership in D2D backup with
REO 4000,
which delivers an excellent price/performance solution to
customers," said
Tony Asaro, senior analyst, the Enterprise Strategy Group.
"ESG believes that
the combination of iSCSI and D2D backup is a killer
application, and Overland
has emerged as the leader in iSCSI disk-based storage."
ESG research also found in a recent study that 66 percent of
IT
professionals state that their backups take too long.
REO 4000 is a high
performance disk-based appliance that delivers accelerated
backups and
immediate data restores. ESG believes that this class
of appliances has the
"potential for wide market adoption starting in 2004 and for
years to come."
REO 4000 is a preconfigured, easy-to-install appliance with
specialized
intelligent software, hardware, and both iSCSI and Fibre
Channel connectivity.
It supports optional RAID capabilities for organizations
seeking an extra
level of data protection. Capable of operating as
either disk or virtual
tape, REO 4000 enhances existing backup and recovery
processes by improving
performance and lowering the total cost of ownership for
data protection.
"As ESG has confirmed, more organizations are choosing the
high-performance REO for disk-based backup and recovery than
any other
comparable product on the market," said Christopher Calisi,
president and CEO,
Overland Storage. "The REO is a key component of our
strategy to deliver
powerful data protection solutions that ensure business
continuity, and we are
gratified by this acknowledgment of its success."
The complete ESG Viewpoint, "Overland -- the Leader in iSCSI-based
Disk-to-Disk Backup," is online at:
http://www.enterprisestrategygroup.com/ESGPublications/ReportDetail.asp?Report
ID=217
Overland products are available exclusively through the
company's channel
partners. For more information, please visit
http://www.overlandstorage.com.
About Overland Storage
For more than 20 years, Overland Storage has delivered
world-class data
protection solutions designed to ensure business continuity.
Focused on
backup and recovery, Overland's data protection solutions
are designed for
entry-level and midrange computing environments. These
include the REO family
of disk-based backup and recovery appliances and the
award-winning NEO series
of tape libraries. Overland sells its products
worldwide through leading
OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and
value-added resellers.
For more information, visit Overland's website at
http://www.overlandstorage.com.
Except for the factual statements made herein, the
information contained
in this news release consists of forward-looking statements
that involve
risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to
predict. Words and
expressions reflecting optimism and satisfaction with
current prospects, as
well as words such as "believe," "intends," "expects,"
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and variations thereof, identify forward-looking statements,
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