Overland, which has replaced its CEO and other top executives with storage industry veterans over the last year, unveiled the SnapServer SAN S2000, a $15,000 (starting price) device that features automated provisioning, compatibility with multiple operating systems and a simplified management dashboard for companies lacking a deep IT bench.

The SnapServer introduction repositions the 29-year-old Overland to expand beyond its tape storage legacy into SAN and to serve one of the fastest-growing segments of the disk storage market, iSCSI SAN products selling in the $15,000 to $20,000 range. Snap also allows Overland to emerge as a seller of name brand storage and less of an OEM supplier to other companies.

“We want to be able to deliver to the midsized market technology that a lot of large organizations are able to deploy because they have the resources and the budget to do that,” said Jillian Mansolf, vice president of sales and marketing at the San Diego-based firm. “The midsized market [is] facing all the same challenges.”

SnapServer is based on Snap network-attached storage (NAS) products Overland acquired from Adaptec in 2008. The basic system is a 2U 19-inch rack-mounted appliance that stores up to 24 terabytes (TB) of data. Expansion units can be purchased starting at $3,000 each that can extend system capacity to 120TB. The SAN S2000 supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS X or Novell NetWare operating systems as well as VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization. It is also designed to combine set-up, allocation, replication, data protection and other chores into one dashboard, said Mansolf.

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Overland Snap Server S2000 Data Sheet

The two systems feature a combined NAS (network attached storage) and iSCSI connectivity to facilitate server and storage consolidation and simplify data storage, protection and management for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at affordable price points.

SMBs have the same challenges as enterprises with rapid data growth and increased storage management complexity, but they have relatively limited resources to deal with the challenges. To help SMBs deal with diverse and changing data demands without increasing budget and technical staffing, Infortrend designed the new EonNAS models to deliver broad protocol support, easy management, optimized performance, robust data protection and flexible scalability.

EonNAS 3200 is an entry-level model ideal for small businesses, remote/branch offices and enterprise departments, while EonNAS 5100 is designed for mid-sized businesses. Both EonNAS 3200 and 5100 support file and block protocols including CIFS, NFS, FTP and iSCSI to facilitate NAS and SAN consolidation. The EonNAS 5100 supports SSD drives for greater efficiency.
“EonStor and ESVA product lines have proven Infortrend’s capability to produce quality and innovative storage systems. Adding to our expertise, we are introducing the EonNAS unified storage solutions to benefit more users,” said Thomas Kao, product planning and global marketing director at Infortrend Technology.” At affordable prices, these multi-protocol systems help SMBs deal with growing amounts of data that need to be stored longer, protected and managed more efficiently. With EonNAS, SMBs no longer have to compromise on business competitiveness because of limited budgets and staff.”

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Buy one EqualLogic PS6010E, PS6010X or PS6510E, PS6510X along with one Dell PowerConnect Switch 8024F or M8024 (both supporting 10GbE technology) and we’ll give you a 2nd Switch for free.

Dell Equallogic Minimum Specs:

EqualLogic PS6010: PS6010E, 8x 500GB SATA,2 Controllers, 3 Yr ProSupport for IT and 4hr Mission Critical

What’s new in EQ?

The 10GbE EqualLogic arrays make the already exceptional EqualLogic storage performance even stronger. The PS6010/6510 Series gives increased performance for critical business applications, stronger virtualization, storage consolidation and higher performance in disaster recovery.

In addition, the PS6010 and PS6510 can be deployed without abandoning previous EqualLogic investments, helping reduce overall total cost of ownership (TCO).

Simply put, the PS6010 and PS6510 offer 10x more bandwidth per port and 2.5x more bandwidth per array and reduces cabling up to 50%.

10GbE: A new age of efficiency

With integrated infrastructure management and the unification of LAN, SAN and Infiniband networks, 10GbE revolutionises the datacentre. Improve virtualization effectiveness and increase VMs without fear of bandwidth challenges with an end-to-end 10GbE solution.

The PowerConnect M8024 Switch

Dell have combined flexible modularity with 10Gb Ethernet in the innovative Dell PowerConnect M8024 Switch:

• Ideal for I/O intensive environments
• 24 ports of 10Gb Ethernet to the Dell PowerEdge™ M1000e chassis
• Built upon Flex I/O architecture
• Modular external uplinks provide flexible choices in diverse media types for connecting to LANs
• All the features and ease of the PowerConnect family

The PowerConnect 8024F Switch

One of the key components in Dell Unified Fabric Data Center solutions, The PowerConnect 8024F supports converged fabric requirements such as Priority Flow Control (802.1Qbb), iSCSI Optimisation, and 10Gb wire speed performance on all ports. iSCSI traffic can also be monitored at the fabric level, allowing the administrator to track active iSCSI sessions.

• Dell’s  first all 10 Gigabit 1U Ethernet product
• 24-port 10Gb Gigabit Ethernet Layer 3 switch
• Four Combo Ports for mixed cabling environments
• Designed for utilisation in a variety of customer environments such as 10Gb Top-of-Rack switching, 10Gb Aggregation, and Switch Core applications in small to medium datacentres

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EqualLogic PS6010 will be available as of Dec 15 2009. EqualLogic PS6510 will become available as of Jan 15 2010.

EMC has outlined its fully automated storage tiering (FAST) vision and announced delivery of its first technology to revolutionize the way storage is managed.  EMC is delivering unprecedented automation capabilities across all primary EMC storage platforms to help resource-constrained IT organizations manage strong double-digit annual information growth. The new EMC FAST technology, available immediately, automates the movement of data within a storage system, replacing hours or even days of repetitive, manual storage administrative tasks.  As a result, an average system configuration with a combination of EMC FAST technology, enterprise flash drives and SATA disk drives, can deliver higher service levels while reducing storage acquisition costs by at least 20 percent and lowering storage operational expenses by 40 percent.

EMC’s FAST technology will serve as the foundation for integrating all of its leading storage efficiency and automation capabilities, allowing IT organizations to manage more information more efficiently in a smaller footprint, use less power and cooling, and lower storage capital and operational costs. EMC’s FAST technology ensures that the right information is in the right place at the right time and is optimized for both highest performance and lowest cost.  It combines the performance benefits of enterprise flash drives, which can increase application performance by as much as 800 percent for active data, with the cost benefits of high capacity SATA disk drives, which can lower cost-per-megabyte by as much as 80 percent for inactive data.

With the ongoing growth of information and the new requirements of the emerging dynamic virtual data center and private clouds, IT organizations require new tools that provide the automation and simplification necessary to deliver IT as a service. EMC’s FAST technology represents a major inflection point in the storage industry and will transform the way information infrastructures are built and used by IT organizations. EMC’s vision for FAST is to combine capabilities including sub-LUN tiering, capacity allocation on demand, block and file level deduplication, data compression, disk drive spin down, built-in archiving, and private and public cloud federation to provide unprecedented levels of automation, management, and cost efficiencies.

The first phase of EMC FAST technology is available immediately for new and existing EMC® Symmetrix® V-Max™ and EMC CLARiiON® CX4 networked storage systems, and EMC Celerra® NS unified storage systems. Key capabilities include:

• The ability to easily create and apply tiering policies to transparently automate the control, placement, and movement of data within the storage system based on business needs.
• Sophisticated built-in software to monitor, analyze, and respond to changes in the value and access patterns of the data to self-optimize storage resources, allowing applications to leverage the ultra-high performance of enterprise flash drives as well as maximize the cost, energy, and footprint efficiencies of high-capacity SATA drives.
• Flexible and robust policies that enable users to define tiering rules to support service-level requirements automatically or with administrator approval.
• Innovative file system capabilities that permit integration with internal private clouds and external cloud service providers to seamlessly federate placement and movement of file-based and unstructured data.
• Advanced management capabilities that automate the end-to-end discovery and reporting of applications to storage tiers to easily view storage resource topologies and attributes, capacity allocation and free space, and real time and historical performance metrics to enable “pay for use” and “charge back” operational models.
• Additional phases of EMC’s FAST technology will roll out beginning in 2010

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SAN DIEGO – October 13, 2009 – Overland Storage, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL) today announced the availability of the new NEO®S family of automated tape libraries, which provide simple and affordable backup, disaster recovery and archive capabilities. Ideally suited for SMEs and distributed network environments, the NEOS family of tape libraries leverages the reliability, serviceability and data availability of Overland’s award-winning NEO®  Series of tape backup and archive solutions.

NEOs Family of Automated Tape Libraries
The NEOS line includes the NEO 200S, a compact 2u model that provides up to 38.4 TB of capacity and the NEO 400S, an expandable library that packs up to 76.8 TB of capacity in a 4u form factor to maximize capacity while minimizing costly rack space. The new family takes advantage of standard NEO family features that have become the hallmark for simplified installation and ongoing operation, including:

• Web-based remote management and diagnostics;
• Removable cartridge magazines that expedite access to data while reducing media handling costs;
• An integrated barcode reader to facilitate fast media tracking; and
• User-configurable mail slots for easy, secure access to individual tape cartridges;
• Expandability for increased capacity as data storage needs change; and
• Encryption to ensure data confidentiality and compliance.

“The NEO brand is synonymous with quality and is well respected for its rock-solid reliability, technological innovation and superior investment protection,” says Peri Grover, director of tape automation products at Overland Storage. “The new NEOS complement and broaden the rest of the NEO family platform while also leveraging our proven product architecture to give SMEs world-class functionality in a highly affordable, compact tape automation solution that meets a vast array of backup and archive requirements.”

The NEOS libraries utilize industry-leading HP LTO3 and LTO4 tape drives that can be easily removed, replaced and upgraded as needed. Connectivity flexibility is provided through SCSI, Fibre Channel and SAS configuration options. Additionally, the NEO 400S provides redundant power as well as partitioning to provide optimum library utilization.  In the first calendar quarter of 2010, Overland plans to offer expandability and encryption options for the NEO 400S. The expandability feature will enable end-users to combine the library with other NEOS models that appear to the host as a single library. Furthermore, the encryption capability will ensure the privacy, confidentiality and integrity of business-critical data while meeting compliance requirements.

Tape Automation Market
According to IDC, the worldwide mid-range tape automation market is expected to exceed $1 billion in annual sales this year, with more than 101,000 units projected to ship by the end of 2009. “Mid-range tape libraries remain important and cost-effective backup, disaster recovery and long-term archiving solutions for small and medium-sized businesses that are consolidating their IT environments,” said Richard Villars, vice president of storage and IT executive strategies at IDC. “Solutions like Overland’s new NEO mid-range tape libraries will help SMEs better protect their IT investments while overcoming space, resource and budget limitations.”

Pricing and Availability from 101 Data Solutions
Overland’s NEO 200S comes in two models: a one-drive,12-cartridge autoloader and a one- or two-drive, 24-cartridge library. The NEO 400S is available with up to four tape drives and up to 48 cartridges. The NEOS family is available now from 101 Data Solutions for a starting MSRP of $3,995.

Overland Storage PDF Press Release

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