Overland charges forward into primary data storage market
Overland charges forward into primary data storage market
Aug 11, 2005: Despite the recent setback of Hewlett-Packard terminating its contract with Overland Storage, the traditional tape-automation company is determined to bounce back, following the recent acquisition of Zetta Systems.
This is a deliberate, strategic move for the company into the protected primary data storage market, as it tries to broaden its opportunities in other markets, following the recent HP disappointment.
Overland Storage has bought Zetta Systems, a developer of real-time data protection software for digital storage solutions, for US$9 million dollars.
Christopher Calisi, the president and CEO of Overland Storage, said that based on the company's satisfaction with the NEO and REO products, its resellers and end user customers have requested that the products should include primary storage.
"Our NEO product line is the heart of our 'tertiary' data storage tier for data archiving and our REO products represent our 'secondary' tier for near-line disk-based backup and recovery appliances.
"Zetta's software will ultimately be incorporated into a protected primary storage appliance that will represent the 'primary' tier of Overland's protected storage strategy.
"We believe we will then have a complete offering of the broadest and most cost-effective, end-to-end storage protection in the market which will be delivered by our strong, worldwide branded sales channel."
Overland Storage claimed that Zetta's software has instantaneous and replication technology that can provide superior usability and delivers robust block and file-based protection with fail over so data recovery can be accomplished quickly and reliably.
In addition, Overland Storage said that Zetta's software can virtualise storage resources to help resource-strapped organisations improve storage utilisation and reduce IT operational expenses without requiring changes to the infrastructure.
Overland Storage plans to separately source the server and storage components and expects to deliver a protected primary storage appliance to the market by mid-October 2005.
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