Features ca smart Certified Backup SAN Solution
Overland Storage, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL), a leading provider of storage solutions, today announced that Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) is featuring Overland's Neo Series(TM) tape libraries in 12 of CA's Solution Centers located in Europe, Australia and the United States. The Solution Centers demonstrate integrated storage and management solutions from CA, Overland and other partners. The Neo Series offers unique benefits in enterprise-level data centers such as expansion on demand, Non-stop operation and flexible connectivity. The Neo Series tape devices, which have been certified ca smart, work together with CA's acclaimed BrightStor Enterprise Backup and BrightStor ARCserve backup software to create a high-availability Storage Area Network (SAN) platform. The ca smart seal is earned by solution partners who deliver eBusiness value and technical excellence through the integration of their products with CA technologies."Since its inception, the Neo Series has proven to be a leading product in high availability IT environments," said Bob Scroop, vice president and general manager of Overland's storage resource business unit. "We appreciate CA giving us the opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of the Neo Series to customers, resellers and analysts in a simulated working environment. In the CA Solution Center venue, Overland brings the product in front of the end user, providing more assurance before making tape library purchase decisions."
"The combined strengths of Overland's Neo Series tape libraries and CA's BrightStor backup solutions enable customers to protect their critical information assets in an extremely resource efficient and easy-to-manage manner," said Stacy Leader, vice president of CA's Solution Partner Program. "By showcasing how Overland products complement and integrate with CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup and BrightStor ARCserve Backup, we are helping customers make smarter decisions about how to best ensure business continuity."
The Neo Series library architecture provides unprecedented levels of availability through Non-stop Operation, investment protection through SmartScale Architecture and flexible connectivity to DAS, NAS or SAN environments through SCSI and dual-path Fibre Channel I/O.
CA will use the Neo Series 4100, with two Quantum SDLT220 tape drives in its Solution Centers. The Neo Series 4100 has nearly six terabytes of native storage capacity, and can easily be upgraded to nearly 23 terabytes. The Neo Series 4100 also comes equipped with a Fibre Channel Bridge for easy connectivity and maximum throughput in a 1-2 GB SAN configuration.
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 the award-winning NEO Series(TM) of tape 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. On June 28, 2002, the company changed its name from Overland Data, Inc. For more information, visit Overland's Web site at www.overlandstorage.com .
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