Overland Storage
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Overland Storage was founded in 1980 as "Overland Data" in San Diego, California, and is a provider of data protection appliances for midrange and distributed enterprises. Overland’s award-winning products include NEO SERIES® tape libraries, REO SERIES® disk-based appliances with Virtual Tape Library
(VTL) capabilities, Snap SAN storage area network
-based appliances and SnapServer® network-attached storage
-based appliances. Overland sells its products through leading OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers.
Overland originally manufactured IBM-compatible 9-track tape drives. In January 2000, Overland acquired Tecmar
and its line of small system tape drives including the WangTek and WangDAT
brands. Following smaller acquisitions of disk-based product lines, in June 2008, Overland acquired Snap Server
from Adaptec.
In January 2009, Eric Kelly, a board member since 2007 and the head of its recently-acquired SnapServer NAS line, became CEO of Overland Storage. Other executive team changes in 2009 included Jillian Mansolf, formerly of Dell
Inc., Maxtor
and Data Robotics Inc., as the new vice president of worldwide sales and marketing; Geoff Barrall, formerly the CEO and founder of Data Robotics Inc. and BlueArc
, as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering and Chris Gopal, most recently of Dell, as vice president of operations.
In February 2010, Overland debuted the latest in its SnapServer® SAN line, Snap SAN S2000, the company's first iSCSI SAN. Later that month, Overland debuted LTO-5 technology across its NEO line of enterprise tape libraries, becoming the first company to offer the newer, faster tape technology to customers.
In mid-summer 2010, Overland opened the doors to a new Silicon Valley
office in San Jose
, California
. In July 2010, Overland unveiled the SnapServer® N2000, a block-and-file-level NAS or SAN package aimed at virtualized environments running VMware
, Microsoft
Hyper-V
or Citrix XenServer. N2000 is integrated for Microsoft Windows
and Unix
and can scale up to 144 TB in a 2U form factor. Also in July, Overland unveiled the NEO® 8000e, an enhanced version of the company's NEO 8000 series of enterprise tape libraries, that with LTO-5, scales up to 3 PB of capacity and has a data transfer rate of 24 TB per hour.
(NAS) and Snap SAN storage area network
(SAN) are disk-based data storage solutions that scale in capacity from 1TB to hundreds of terabytes and are designed for remote offices, workgroups, departments, and distributed enterprises.
REO® Series: Disk-based backup and recovery solutions
NEO® Series: Tape backup and archive solutions for the enterprise and beyond
Virtual Tape Library
A virtual tape library is a data storage virtualization technology used typically for backup and recovery purposes. A VTL presents a storage component as tape libraries or tape drives for use with existing backup software.Virtualizing the disk storage as tape allows integration of VTLs with...
(VTL) capabilities, Snap SAN storage area network
Storage area network
A storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...
-based appliances and SnapServer® network-attached storage
Network-attached storage
Network-attached storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous clients. NAS not only operates as a file server, but is specialized for this task either by its hardware, software, or configuration of those elements...
-based appliances. Overland sells its products through leading OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers.
Overland originally manufactured IBM-compatible 9-track tape drives. In January 2000, Overland acquired Tecmar
Tecmar
Tecmar was an American manufacturer of PC enhancement products based in Solon, OH. The company was founded in 1974 and their first products were data acquisition boards for the first generation of microcomputers. Popular products included the Scientific Solutions LabMaster series of boards for...
and its line of small system tape drives including the WangTek and WangDAT
WangDAT
WangDAT was a magnetic tape data storage company founded in 1988 by Ben C. Wang. This was Dr. Wang's third startup company that he founded that manufactured tape drives. The company manufactured Digital Data Storage drives, which store computer data on Digital Audio Tape media. The company was...
brands. Following smaller acquisitions of disk-based product lines, in June 2008, Overland acquired Snap Server
Snap Server
The Snap Server is a network attached storage computer appliance currently sold by Overland Storage.All modern Snap Servers include an embedded operating system called GuardianOS. The GuardianOS is a UNIX-like operating system based on the mainstream Linux kernel, and is used on the Snap Server...
from Adaptec.
In January 2009, Eric Kelly, a board member since 2007 and the head of its recently-acquired SnapServer NAS line, became CEO of Overland Storage. Other executive team changes in 2009 included Jillian Mansolf, formerly of Dell
Dell
Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...
Inc., Maxtor
Maxtor
Maxtor Corporation, founded in 1982 and acquired by Seagate Technology in 2006, was an American manufacturer of computer hard disk drives, the third largest in the world immediately prior to acquisition...
and Data Robotics Inc., as the new vice president of worldwide sales and marketing; Geoff Barrall, formerly the CEO and founder of Data Robotics Inc. and BlueArc
BlueArc
BlueArc Corporation is a network storage device manufacturer headquartered in San Jose, California. BlueArc was founded in 1998 by Geoff Barrall, Jeff Pinkham and Jon Meyer. Initially based in the UK, BlueArc transitioned its HQ to the US in 2000 and became a US corporation at that time although...
, as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering and Chris Gopal, most recently of Dell, as vice president of operations.
In February 2010, Overland debuted the latest in its SnapServer® SAN line, Snap SAN S2000, the company's first iSCSI SAN. Later that month, Overland debuted LTO-5 technology across its NEO line of enterprise tape libraries, becoming the first company to offer the newer, faster tape technology to customers.
In mid-summer 2010, Overland opened the doors to a new Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
office in San Jose
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. In July 2010, Overland unveiled the SnapServer® N2000, a block-and-file-level NAS or SAN package aimed at virtualized environments running VMware
VMware
VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....
, Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian and formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems. A beta version of Hyper-V was shipped with certain x86-64 editions of Windows Server 2008, and the finalized version was released on June 26,...
or Citrix XenServer. N2000 is integrated for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
and Unix
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
and can scale up to 144 TB in a 2U form factor. Also in July, Overland unveiled the NEO® 8000e, an enhanced version of the company's NEO 8000 series of enterprise tape libraries, that with LTO-5, scales up to 3 PB of capacity and has a data transfer rate of 24 TB per hour.
Current Products
SnapServer® network-attached storageNetwork-attached storage
Network-attached storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous clients. NAS not only operates as a file server, but is specialized for this task either by its hardware, software, or configuration of those elements...
(NAS) and Snap SAN storage area network
Storage area network
A storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...
(SAN) are disk-based data storage solutions that scale in capacity from 1TB to hundreds of terabytes and are designed for remote offices, workgroups, departments, and distributed enterprises.
- SnapSAN® S1000
- SnapSAN® S2000
- SnapServer® N2000
- SnapServer® 650/620
- SnapServer® 410
- SnapServer® 210
- SnapServer® 110
REO® Series: Disk-based backup and recovery solutions
- REO® 4600
- REO® 1550
NEO® Series: Tape backup and archive solutions for the enterprise and beyond
- NEO® 8000e
- NEO® 4000e
- NEO® 2000e
- NEO® 400s
- NEO® 200s
See also
- Computer data storage
- Tape backup
- Network-attached storageNetwork-attached storageNetwork-attached storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous clients. NAS not only operates as a file server, but is specialized for this task either by its hardware, software, or configuration of those elements...
- Storage area networkStorage area networkA storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...