Overland Storage Helps Leading Weapon and Space Systems Company Meet Skyrocketing Storage Needs & Achieve High-Velocity Data Pro
April 01 2008 - 7:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
ATK Builds on REO/NEO Tiers with ULTAMUS RAID 4800 and 1 TB Drives
to Leverage Industry-Leading Storage Density and Rapid Recovery of
Critical Data SAN DIEGO, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Overland Storage, Inc. (NASDAQ:OVRL) today announced that Alliant
Techsystems (ATK), a leading provider of advanced weapon and space
systems with $4.1 billion in annual sales, has deployed multiple
tiers of the company's data protection appliances, comprising REO
SERIES(R) 4000 disk-based backup, recovery and VTL appliances; a
NEO SERIES(R) 2000 scalable tape library and an ULTAMUS(R) RAID
4800 high-capacity storage array. At the Baltimore, Md.-based
Tactical Propulsion and Controls (TP&C) Division of ATK's
Mission Systems Group, a service-oriented, performance-based data
protection and disaster recovery model safeguards soaring storage
requirements. In supporting its division headquarters in Baltimore,
an operating unit in Elkton, Md., and a remote location in
California, 150 TBs of storage have been allocated for active,
production data along with data backups and resource volumes. As
early proponents of disk-based backup and recovery, ATK initially
deployed Overland's REO VTLs along with a scalable NEO 2000 tape
library for disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection. VMware and
FalconStor's IPStor SANs were embraced for server and storage
virtualization. When an EMC Clariion SAN became oversaturated due
to aggressive data growth, ATK once again turned to Overland
Storage for another layer of data protection. In early 2008, the
TP&C division deployed Overland's ULTAMUS RAID 4800 with 1 TB
drives for up to 48 TBs of nearline storage capacity within an
industry-leading density of only 4u of rack space. In side-by-side
testing, Overland's ULTAMUS RAID 4800 sustained equal or better
performance than ATK's EMC array. The ULTAMUS RAID also offers
energy-efficient hardware components and power-saving technology to
yield up to 40 percent savings in power consumption without
impacting I/O, application uptime or performance. "With ULTAMUS
RAID 4800's combined density and price point, I can't imagine a
better value on the market today," says Peter McCallum, storage and
server administrator for ATK's Elkton location. "We attained
roughly twice the storage for a third of the price of a comparable
tier-one storage solution, which is a phenomenal advantage." ATK
now can go back 60 days and recover files in less than 10 minutes
by restoring a FalconStor snapshot from its Overland ULTAMUS RAID.
A second ULTAMUS RAID 4800 is being added for load balancing and
capacity expansion to meet the growing need for offsite replication
mirrors. By dynamically scaling two ULTAMUS RAID 4800 appliances
together, ATK can acquire nearly 200 TBs of storage for about
$100,000 less than a tier-one 50 TB storage array. According to
Vern LoForti, president and CEO of Overland Storage, the ULTAMUS
RAID 4800 is ideally suited for managing data growth as a result of
increased storage consolidation, server virtualization, regulatory
compliance, digital content creation and application file
expansion. "Our ULTAMUS RAID 4800 with 1 TB drives offers
storage-constrained organizations and budget-restricted
governmental agencies the latest in high-speed storage
architectures and expansion-on-demand capabilities," he says. "ATK
is an excellent example of how an organization can leverage ULTAMUS
RAID nearline storage as well as our REO and NEO appliances to add
multiple layers of highly flexible and scalable data protection."
ULTAMUS RAID 4800 with 1 TB drives is available for a starting MSRP
of $47,934. About Overland Storage Now in its 27th year, Overland
Storage is a market leader and innovative provider of smart,
affordable data protection appliances that help midrange and
distributed enterprises ensure business-critical data is constantly
protected, readily available and always there. Overland's
award-winning products include NEO SERIES(R) and ARCvault(TM) tape
libraries, REO SERIES(R) disk-based appliances with Virtual Tape
Library (VTL) capabilities and ULTAMUS(TM) RAID high-performance,
high-density storage. Overland sells its products through leading
OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added
resellers. For more information, visit Overland's web site at
http://www.overlandstorage.com/ Overland, Overland Storage, REO
Series, REO, NEO Series, NEO, ARCvault Series, ARCvault and ULTAMUS
are trademarks of Overland Storage, Inc. DATASOURCE: Overland
Storage, Inc. CONTACT: Sue Hetzel of HetzelMeade Communications,
+1-760-434-9927, , for Overland Storage, Inc. Web site:
http://www.overlandstorage.com/
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