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Denver Health Recaptures 30 Percent of Storage Space With Overland's SRM

September 11, 2003

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL), the leading provider of backup and recovery solutions trusted by Fortune 10,000 companies to ensure zero downtime, today announced that Denver Health selected Overland's active Storage Resource Management (SRM) software. Denver Health chose the heterogeneous storage resource management solution to maximize return on their existing storage investment.

Denver Health needed to determine their current storage consumption, quantify storage growth and proactively manage their storage needs. After just 30 days of use, Overland's SRM identified how Denver Health could reclaim 30 percent of their existing storage by eliminating duplicate, temporary and old files. Using Overland's SRM enables IT administrators to quantify and groom data, and therefore reclaim a significant portion of storage space.

"We are in the business of saving lives and a safety net to the not so fortunate," said David Boone, system project manager for Denver Health. "As a result, we collect and manage a significant amount of critical information on an enterprise level. We cannot afford to be surprised or unaware of what our storage growth may be."

"There are still hard times for a lot of companies, and our value proposition is to show companies results," said John Cloyd, vice president of Overland's storage management business unit. "Our SRM offering helps provide an accurate picture of the end user's environment and identify the inefficiencies. Our goal is to offer solutions that provide an immediate return on investment."

Overland's browser-based active SRM 3 supports Windows NT/2000, Novell Netware, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux operating environments, and is fully compatible with all leading brands of server/storage products. Overland SRM is designed to help businesses reduce their cost of acquiring and managing their IT storage by providing tools that enable the development of automated storage management, invariably reducing cost.

Overland active SRM product benefits include:

-- Easy to use browser-based user interface

-- Fast, non-intrusive installation with automatic push agents

-- Full compatibility with all popular operating environments

-- Automated data discovery with a rich suite of standard reports

-- Customized powerful reporting capability

-- Automated reporting, trend analysis, threshold setting/monitoring, and automatic alarm notification for when policies are breached or thresholds are crossed

-- Quota-based storage management

-- Comprehensive notification tools such as SNMP, email, pager and pop-up messages

If you are interested in learning more about Overland's SRM solution, please call 1-800-729-8725 or visit www.overlandstorage.com .

About Overland Storage

Overland Storage, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL) is a leading global supplier of innovative hardware and software storage solutions for mid-range computer networks. The company's reputation for delivering high availability products, including its award-winning automated storage libraries and the industry's first family of fully open storage management software solutions, sets the standard for intelligent, automated and scalable storage. Overland sells its products worldwide through leading OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers. For more information, visit Overland's Web site at www.overlandstorage.com .

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