Overland Offers Backup Appliance

SAN DIEGO -- Overland Storage, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL) today unveiled the REO Compass, a revolutionary, disk-based appliance that moves backup data efficiently and securely between remote sites while seamlessly integrating with existing backup software, policies, VTLs and physical tape libraries. REO Compass eases the consolidation of data backups from remote sites to a central location for global, optimized backups across all offices and data centers.

REO Compass combines block-based data deduplication with compression and AES encryption to transport data between locations with minimal bandwidth and maximum security. Centralized management of all REO Compass appliances facilitates wide-area backup and recovery by enabling administrators to manage data movement policies at multiple sites from a single interface. This unified control over remote and local data backups and recoveries eliminates the need to ship backup tapes to headquarters or incur costly, manual intervention at remote offices.

Additional data protection innovations provided by REO Compass include:

According to Ravi Pendekanti, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for Overland Storage, the new REO Compass addresses the unique challenges of remote data protection and backup consolidation while filling critical gaps in current solutions. “Exponential data growth, along with low-bandwidth connectivity and limited IT resources at remote sites, makes it exceedingly difficult for companies to ensure adequate protection of dispersed data,” he explains. “With REO Compass, Overland is answering the call by simplifying data mobility with a purpose-built appliance that makes it easy and economical to automate, manage and integrate the movement of backup data across a WAN.”

Overland Storage Inc.