Overland Storage - 10/27/2012

Overland Storage Unveils SnapScale

Overland Storage (NASDAQ: OVRL), the trusted global provider of effortless data management and data protection solutions across the 
data lifecycle, today unveiled a new clustered NAS solution, SnapScale™. Built on the company’s newest innovation – RAINcloud™ OS 
technology – SnapScale eliminates independent storage silos and unifies storage volumes under one global namespace delivering a 
simple to deploy, easy to manage, high-performance solution. Scalable to 512 petabytes, SnapScale provides 99.999% uptime and a 
no-single-point-of-failure architecture along with enterprise-class features such as redundancy, snapshots, automatic failover, 
replication and flexible provisioning at half the price of the competition. With the ability to easily add hundreds of petabytes of 
capacity, scale performance linearly and manage data under a single global namespace, SnapScale empowers businesses to 
grow their storage infrastructure without interruption or downtime. 
 
“While data is growing exponentially, many companies are struggling to effectively store and manage it all. Overland’s SnapScale 
clustered NAS addresses the major pain points associated with rapid data growth while eliminating management complexity and 
performance limitations,” said Terri McClure, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “SnapScale enhances performance and 
availability as storage pools grow. Unlike traditional NAS systems, SnapScale is not limited by performance, scalability or availability 
as additional capacity is added. It provides the benefit of multiple systems working together to provide the highest performance and 
redundancy at all times.”  

SnapScale and RAINcloud OS:  Revolutionizing Scale-out Storage

RAINcloud OS combines three layers of traditional storage architectures – filesystem, volume manager and data protection – into one 
unified software layer, creating a single intelligent global namespace that spans all nodes within a cluster. Providing an effortless 
storage management experience, RAINcloud OS gives SnapScale the ability to set-up clusters in under ten minutes and features 
a “manage-anywhere” browser-based interface that dramatically simplifies storage set-up, configuration, and maintenance.

Eliminating islands of storage and providing a truly unified and provision-less storage experience, SnapScale and RAINcloud OS 
combine hundreds of petabytes of storage and consolidate them to appear as a single global namespace for volume creation and 
management. Storage volumes can grow and shrink independently without IT intervention or capacity limitations. SnapScale 
uniquely allows administrators to scale-up capacity by adding drives, or scale-out capacity by adding nodes.  Moreover, additional 
data protection can be obtained by replicating data between clusters with Snap Enterprise Data Replicator, which is included.

“At the University of San Francisco we need network storage that provides data protection and scales easily to keep pace with our 
ever-growing and changing infrastructure. With SnapScale we were able to decrease complexity and increase the high availability we 
require to support our extensive e-learning, digital media libraries and student information data processing," said Steve Gallagher, Chief 
Information Officer at University of San Francisco. “We like SnapScale’s flexibility to scale-up, as well as scale-out and how simple it is 
to increase and manage the capacity under a single global namespace. We believe SnapScale is a great choice for institutions to 
protect, share and manage critical data, especially if they have limited resources or budget.”

The Power of SnapScale:

Simple: Setup is as simple as powering on the system. SnapScale nodes automatically discover each other and are sharing data in less 
than 10 minutes 
Flexible: Administrators have the option to choose between automatic two-way or three-way data redundancy and site-to-site replication 
to meet disaster    recovery goals. 
Available:  SnapScale delivers redundancy of all components and simultaneously writes data across multiple nodes and drives in 
real-time ensuring no   single point of failure. 
Scalable:  Scale-up by adding drives, or scale-out by adding nodes as needed to increase storage pool space. Additional capacity can 
be added to the global namespace without downtime or user disruption. 
High Performance:  Performance is optimized and scales linearly as client and server connections are balanced across the SnapScale 
cluster to increase throughput. 

Ideal environments and uses for SnapScale:

 Cloud Providers – Colocation Services, Hosting, Web Services, Archiving 
 Financial Services – Check Imaging, Document Storage, Customer Data
 Video Surveillance – Homeland Security/Law Enforcement, Retail/Commercial, Casino/Gaming 
 Manufacturing and Design – CAD Storage, Collaboration and Sharing, Local Storage
 Medical and Biotechnology – Patient Records, Imaging, Research and Development 
 Government and Education – Home Directory Services, E-Learning, File Server Consolidation

“Companies today are driven by data more than ever before. With long-term file storage, cloud services and big data processing 
creating an explosion in data growth, companies need to be able to manage, monitor, and grow storage quickly and affordably,” 
said Jillian Mansolf, SVP Global Sales and Marketing, Overland Storage. “With over 300,000 SnapServers deployed globally, we 
have listened to our customers and designed SnapScale to push the limits of the scale-out NAS solutions available in this class 
while still offering the simplicity, reliability and enterprise class features that people expect from SnapServer solutions.”

Pricing and Availability

The Overland Storage SnapScale Clustered NAS is available immediately from a worldwide network of value added resellers and 
system integrators with a starting price of $19,995 for a 24TB configuration including installation services and support.

www.overlandstorage.com

Overland Storage - 7/11/2012

Highest Performance SnapSAN from Overland Storage to Date Delivers SSD Acceleration with Business Continuity

Overland Storage (NASDAQ: OVRL), the trusted global provider of effortless data management and data protection solutions across the 
data lifecycle, today announced a family of SnapSAN solutions for high performance computing. Scalable to 288TBs, the SnapSAN 
3000 and SnapSAN 5000 are fully redundant systems with 99.999 percent availability and set a new benchmark for enterprise level 
automation and performance capabilities. With an easy-to-use interface for performing transparent, non-disruptive data movement, 
the new SnapSAN features multidimensional tiers that maintain optimal performance and provisioning without IT intervention. For 
enterprise class data protection without the high incremental costs usually associated with such capabilities, both products come 
standard with real time replication, volume cloning, snapshots and thin provisioning. Certified for Citrix, Microsoft Hyper-V and 
VMware, the SnapSAN 3000 and SnapSAN 5000 also have built-in VMware API support, as well as a vCenter plugin for 
seamlessly integrated administration. Ideally suited for I/O intensive applications, virtualized and private cloud environments, 
as well as regulatory compliance, the new SnapSAN from Overland Storage allows administrators to quickly provision storage 
to easily meet application-driven and compliance requirements.

“With the SnapSAN 3000 and 5000, Overland has brought many highly advanced storage features to the mid-market with an all-inclusive 
price model that is welcomed by customers. The advanced features are highly valuable and usually associated with much more 
expensive systems,” said Randy Kerns, senior strategist, Evaluator Group.

"Our clients are having to manage growing amounts of data, and must meet increasing performance needs with limited IT budgets 
and resources," said Robert Lennon, President and CEO, SANDirect. "We're excited to be partnering with Overland Storage to 
deliver the SnapSAN 3000 and 5000 to our customers. These new solutions offer the latest in data storage technology, including 
advanced automation and performance features, at a significantly lower price point than any similar solution on the market."

Ideal Use Cases for the New SnapSAN Solutions:

·       Automation Capabilities Enable Better Amortization of Private Cloud Infrastructure

Advanced automation features empower businesses and service-based organizations to increase the density of hosted virtual 
machines. AutoTier™ and AutoTune™ enable companies to monitor data utilization and optimize storage tiers without requiring 
intervention. AutoCache™ makes optimal use of SSD technology by caching all writes and avoiding I/O latencies associated 
with traditional hard drives.

·       SSDs Enable Unparalleled Performance for Virtualized or I/O Intensive Environments

Utilizing AutoTier allows for more efficient use of resources by application, while AutoCache eliminates I/O bottlenecks improving data 
access performance. Increasing file-level performance by as much as 200-800 percent and overall application performance by 30-40 
percent, SnapSAN truly leverages the efficiency benefits of virtualization. Whether using solid-state drive (SSD) technology as primary 
storage or data caching, the use of SSDs has a positive impact on power efficiencies and performance.

·       Advanced Features to Meet the Most Demanding Compliance Requirements

An ideal solution for companies that must meet stringent regulatory needs, the SnapSAN 3000 ensures that base compliance requirements 
are met at a price point that fits within tight budgets. For companies that are faced with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), HIPPA and EPA 
regulations, the SnapSAN 5000 features Write Once Read Many (WORM) capabilities enabling companies to collect, protect and 
archive compliance-based information that is unchangeable and can be made instantly accessible.

SnapSAN 3000 and SnapSAN 5000 Features and Benefits  

·       Reliability and Availability – With 99.999 percent availability, both systems provide active-active controllers, on-board flash memory 
for added cache protection, fully redundant power supplies, battery backed cache and advanced drive and RAID error detection.

·       High Performance – With 10K 2.5” SAS, 15K SAS and SSD options, as well as support for single or dual 1GbE or 10GbE iSCSI, 8Gb 
Fibre Channel and 6Gb SAS controllers the SnapSAN delivers the superior performance and flexibility that businesses need to support 
critical online services including cloud storage, high performance database applications and Microsoft Exchange.

·       Advanced Data Protection – With real time remote replication, volume cloning, snapshots, thin provisioning, advanced RAID 
protection and encrypted drive support, the SnapSAN supports business continuity and increased backup efficiency, while ensuring 
application consistency during backup and replication.  

SnapSAN 5000 delivers increased performance and advanced automation, featuring:

·       AutoCache – Designed to support primary storage requirements, automatic caching provides accelerated performance for I/O 
intensive environments, virtualization and database applications with up to 800GB of additional SSD cache memory.

·       AutoTune – Performance tuning features provide real-time performance monitoring giving administrators the ability to visualize 
performance data and assists with rapid performance analysis that can be leveraged by the AutoTier feature.

·       AutoTier – Automatic tiering enables users to create different tiers of storage within the same system for primary or nearline 
storage deployments. Performance levels of each volume are monitored and data is automatically moved to the faster storage pool 
depending on usage without intervention.

·       Compliance – WORM technology protects against any intentional or unintentional changes to data ensuring that regulatory and 
corporate requirements are achieved. In addition, the SnapSAN utilizes policy driven data retention periods giving the highest level 
of compliance available.

For a side-by-side comparison of the SnapSAN 3000 and 5000 features, please visit: www.overlandstorage.com/snapsan

“Our new offering takes the SnapSAN family of products to unprecedented levels with industry leading features that provide the 
instant accessibility and the performance required for data intensive business applications,” said Joe Disher, director, product 
marketing disk products, Overland Storage. “We continue to focus on creating solutions that provide our customers with maximum 
value and performance while maintaining the ability to be easily deployed and managed within their existing infrastructure.”

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