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Overland Storage Customer Honored in InfoWorld 100
State of Oregon Disk-Based Backup REO Implementation Named One of the Best IT
Projects of 2004
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc.
(NASDAQ:OVRL), a leading provider of backup and recovery solutions, today
announced that one of its customers, the State of Oregon's Department of
Consumer and Business Services, has been recognized for implementing one of the
100 most innovative technology projects for 2004 by InfoWorld magazine.
InfoWorld editors honored the State of Oregon for its implementation of
Overland's REO(TM) disk-based backup and recovery system, which protects
mission-critical data for the agency's nine divisions and 17 field offices.
West Coast Technology, a Southern California-based value-added reseller,
managed the implementation.
"Our goals were to reduce the time required to backup and restore data, while
also increasing the reliability of the process," said Ellen Murphy, backup
administrator for the Department of Consumer and Business Services. "The REO
system does both. It has slashed our backup time from 24 hours to six while
delivering near-instantaneous restores. In addition, the reliability of the
REO gives us confidence that our backups will be as error-free and complete as
possible."
The InfoWorld 100 provides a unique forum where IT managers get the recognition
they deserve for smart, successful projects from an audience of their peers.
To enter the winners circle, an InfoWorld 100 project must stretch beyond the
typical, off-the-shelf solution. As judges, InfoWorld editors have an explicit
bias toward multiple technologies used in innovative ways to serve well-defined
business goals.
"The InfoWorld 100 recognizes the smartest, most creative, and frankly, coolest
IT projects of 2004," said Steve Fox, editor in chief, InfoWorld. "Storage
initiatives were a big winner, far outstripping last year's entries, as
organizations got serious about business continuity, information lifecycle
management, and a host of backup projects."
Oregon's Department of Consumer and Business Services was experiencing
explosive data growth -- data had doubled each year for last three years.
Weekend backups that were required to ensure business continuity took at least
24 hours to complete, and often longer. The department researched the options
of virtual tape solutions or adding another tape library. However, they needed
something more flexible that would allow them to meet current and immediate
future storage requirements, while taking advantage of newer technologies.
The department decided to augment its existing tape backup operations with a
streamlined disk-to-disk (D2D) solution. It selected reseller West Coast
Technology and the Overland Storage REO disk-based backup and recovery system.
As a high-performance disk-based backup and recovery appliance, the REO
significantly increases the speed of full backups over previous methods, while
providing near-instantaneous restores of current data. Its ability to handle
multiple data streams enables the department to back up all 80 of its servers
in less than six hours -- a significant improvement over the 24 hours it took
previously. In addition, the department can move the data from the REO to tape
without affecting network performance.
"InfoWorld's recognition of Oregon's use of the REO demonstrates the importance
of an effective disk-based backup and recovery strategy in today's storage
environments," said John Matze, vice president and chief technology officer,
Overland Storage. "It's not enough just to be able to back up data or reduce
backup windows. An effective strategy must include instantaneous recovery of
mission-critical data, which REO accomplishes for Oregon and countless other
customers."
For more information on the State of Oregon's use of REO, please visit:
http://www.overlandstorage.com/press.nsf/a2deb1a8d57d0324882565f4007ee235/9cb4
00a35f0bcabd88256ef500546ea5!OpenDocument.
About West Coast Technology
West Coast Technology (WCT) is a Southern California-based value-added reseller
of data storage solutions. Since 1999, WCT has provided enterprise-class
storage solutions for organizations across the country, ranging from Fortune
500 companies to small- and medium-sized businesses. The core products that
WCT supports encompass all areas of storage, including primary storage,
secondary storage, backup and recovery, disaster recovery and archiving. WCT's
solutions have won numerous awards, including CA World's Best of Show, as
selected by Computer Reseller News. For more information, visit
http://www.wctstorage.com/.
About Overland Storage
For almost 25 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 include the REO(TM) family of
disk-based backup and recovery appliances and the award-winning NEO SERIES(R)
of tape libraries. Overland sells its products worldwide through leading OEMs,
commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers. For
more information, visit Overland's Web site 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
expressions reflecting optimism and satisfaction with current prospects, as
well as words such as "believe," "intends," "expects," "plans," "anticipates"
and variations thereof, identify forward-looking statements, but their absence
does not mean that a statement is not forward looking. Such forward-looking
statements are not guarantees of performance and the company's actual results
could differ materially from those contained in such statements. Factors that
could cause or contribute to such differences include delays, unbudgeted
expenses, inefficiencies and production problems that may result from the
transition of manufacturing to Sanmina-SCI; difficulty of predicting sales to
the company's major OEM customer; worldwide information technology spending
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, including the
company's new REO products, competitors or licensees of the company; 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
general 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.
Overland, Overland Storage, REO SERIES, NEO SERIES, REO 1000 and REO 9000 are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Overland Storage, Inc.
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CONTACT: Melinda Hutcheon, PR Manager of Overland Storage,
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