Overland Extends Leadership Position in iSCSI Storage Environments

Overland Extends Leadership Position in iSCSI Storage
Environments
Provides iSCSI Connectivity for NEO Series Tape Libraries, Delivering
Flexibility for Affordable SAN Solutions 


SAN DIEGO, June 9  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc.
(NASDAQ:OVRL), the leading provider of backup and recovery solutions, today
introduced the availability of an iSCSI connectivity option for its NEO
Series(R) tape libraries.  Utilizing iSCSI technology, the award-winning NEO
libraries can now easily become an available component of an IP storage area
network (SAN).  Users can leverage existing Ethernet infrastructures, skill
sets and management tools to back up data directly to any NEO library, creating
a low-cost storage solution.

"Overland was one of the first companies to embrace the benefits of iSCSI with
its REO family of disk-based backup and recovery appliances launched last
year," said John Matze, Overland vice president and CTO, and co-architect of
the iSCSI specification.  "Today, we are pleased to extend iSCSI capabilities
to our NEO tape libraries, enabling IT managers to reap the benefits associated
with this flexible, high-speed and cost-effective technology."

iSCSI is a standard for transporting low latency SCSI blocks across IP
networks.  Simple, effective and easy to manage, it uses familiar and
inexpensive Ethernet technology and components to deliver Fibre Channel-like
speed and the high performance equivalent of direct attached storage at a
fraction of the cost -- typically as much as 50 percent less.

Overland's iSCSI connectivity option uses standard Ethernet technology to back
up multiple servers using a single NEO library attached directly to the
network.  It supports an aggregate bandwidth of more than 130MB per second,
effectively eliminating the backup server bottleneck.

"By iSCSI-enabling NEO, Overland Storage allows IT managers to leverage
existing network infrastructure and expertise, consolidate and optimize backup
processes, and easily implement an Overland disk- and tape-based backup
strategy," said Robert Scroop, Overland vice president and general manager,
Storage Resource Business Unit.  "As backup and recovery needs change, the
flexibility and scalability of the NEO architecture provides both investment
protection and peace of mind."

Availability

iSCSI connectivity is available for all NEO libraries, including NEO 2000, NEO
4000 and NEO 8000.  Overland Storage products are available through leading
storage partners worldwide.  For more information, please visit
http://www.overlandstorage.com/.

About the NEO Series

Overland's award-winning family of scalable libraries, the NEO Series, provides
enterprise-class data protection with nonstop operation, expansion on demand,
investment protection, remote library management, and 1 and 2 GB/second
serverless backup in a SAN environment.  Overland's NEO technology has won more
industry awards than any other vendor, including Storage Magazine's Product of
the Year.  The newest addition to the NEO family is the NEO 8000, a data-center
class library offering up to 200 TB of storage in a 19-inch rack footprint. 
The NEO 8000 provides industry-leading performance, scalability, data
availability and field-proven technology at the best value in its class.

About Overland Storage

For more than 20 years, Overland Storage has delivered world-class data
protection solutions designed to ensure business continuity.  Focused on backup
and recovery, Overland's data protection solutions are designed for
midrange-computer environments.  These include NEO Series, the award-winning
automated storage libraries that set the standard for intelligent, automated
and scalable storage, and REO, the high-performance, disk-based backup and
recovery appliance.  Overland sells its products worldwide through leading
OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers.
For more information, visit Overland's website at
http://www.overlandstorage.com/.

Except for the factual statements made herein, the information contained in
this news release consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks,
uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict.  Words and
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levels, unexpected shortages of critical components, rescheduling or
cancellation of customer orders, loss of a major customer, the timing and
market acceptance of new product introductions by the company, its competitors
or its licensees, including the launch of the company's new REO and NEO 8000
products, the timing and amount of licensing royalties, general competition and
price pressures in the marketplace, the company's ability to control costs and
expenses and economic conditions.  Reference is also made to other factors set
forth in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis" and other
sections of the company's Form 10-K for the most recently completed fiscal
year.  These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this
release and the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any
forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances
after the date of this release.

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