Data Lifecycle Management

Simplified Data Management

Market Challenges

Storage system deployment, management, and data protection have become increasingly complicated

Relentless data growth, increased retention requirements, and a growing amount of data being distributed across the globe have made storage the 800lb gorilla in IT operations.  As a storage infrastructure expands it becomes increasingly complicated to manage and requires extensive knowledge, experience, and expertise that is often difficult to obtain.  Management tasks increase at an exponential rate as systems grow—including RAID level determination; snapshot, backup, and replication frequency by data importance; volume provisioning; balancing storage utilization with cost management; and troubleshooting errors. In addition, different devices, applications, and vendors all have separate management interfaces and task methodologies that require specific storage system expertise that ultimately increase the cost of people, time, and resources. Beyond primary storage management requirements are the additional tasks and cost associated with managing an ecosystem of primary, nearline, offline and archival storage.

Overland Solutions

Storage solutions designed for administrators who may be “non-experts”

Overland Storage firmly believes that a storage solution can be most effective when the necessary storage expertise, knowledge, and experience is built into the system and not demanded from the administrator.  Every management interface of Overland Storage solutions feels familiar and intuitive with guided wizards, simplified tasks, and a central console for managing multiple solutions across the data lifecycle. In addition, Overland offers replication options that enable IT administrators to centrally manage, replicate and archive data located at remote locations. From SAN storage to NAS to VTL to tape and archiving to business continuity and disaster recovery, Overland Storage solutions truly make data management effortless.

Storage Optimization

Market Challenges

Deploying the right mix of performance and capacity storage solutions is difficult

Massive data storage growth combined with increasingly distributed data environments has made it difficult for IT administrators to deploy the right mix of both high performance and high capacity storage options. To ensure storage availability, administrators typically purchase far more storage than needed in both categories – effectively creating a storage buffer that only provides limited flexibility.

By creating a buffer of excess storage, companies face significantly increased costs from additional management and maintenance requirements and higher capital expenditures that produce lower overall storage utilization.  Over time the “buffer” workaround becomes limited and companies end up with the wrong kind of storage or not enough of the storage needed most. Companies that combine planning with deployment of the right storage systems can effectively manage data storage growth without wasting limited budget on acquiring additional storage systems, storage media, and IT infrastructure in an attempt to prevent a storage shortage.

Overland Solutions

Optimize capacity, performance, data protection and recovery with storage solutions that are designed to support strategic planning and storage automation

Overland Storage recognizes that there are no “silver bullet” technologies that completely optimize data storage throughout the entire IT infrastructure. Whether it is file or block level deduplication, compression, SAN consolidation, unified storage, WAN optimization or auto provisioning, Overland has leveraged years of experience, expertise, and innovation to create solutions that combine these capabilities into the best synergistic solution for businesses’ real storage requirements.

Overland delivers dynamic storage optimization solutions that are based on a company’s current and future storage needs.

Storage Tiering

Market Challenges

The inability to tier storage effectively makes it difficult to manage data value against the cost and performance of storage systems.

Many companies create tiered storage based solely on the belief that data’s greatest value is at its creation and the value declines from that point forward. Beyond determining the point of highest value is the issue that all data is not created equally. The challenge becomes aligning data value with the “right” storage for each type of data based on performance, data protection, and cost requirements. It is far easier for an organization to put all of its data on either high performance or high capacity storage however this approach creates significant operational inefficiencies.

Keeping all company data on one type of storage generates additional management requirements and also dangerously compromises data protection and recovery.  Setting up tiered backup with different recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) for different values of data is extremely difficult, excessively time consuming, and in the end, a lot more expensive.  The real risk lies in data recovery— because if all data is treated equally it slows down mission critical data recovery and puts a company at risk for revenue loss.

Overland Solutions

Comprehensive and inclusive multi-tiered storage systems combined with best-in-class professional services

In order to deploy effective storage tiering solution, companies need a data management plan that is easy to implement, operate, and manage. Overland’s years of storage experience have enabled us to develop an extensive array of tiered storage solutions that are cost effective to acquire and are implemented with top rated professional services.

Overland Storage solutions are architected from the ground up to ease the storage tiering burden while optimizing data value alignment.  Whether its file storage with SnapServer NAS; NEO tape backup solutions for long term archiving and automated tape libraries; or virtual tape libraries with the REO line; Overland Storage solutions are intuitive and designed to make tiering effortless.

Corporate Compliance

Market Challenges

Companies find it increasingly difficult to meet e-discovery, regulatory, and/or corporate compliance requirements at a reasonable cost

Companies in every sector or industry must conform to some level of regulatory or e-discovery compliance regulations that specify corporate data accessibility for every country in which the company conducts business.
Meeting regulatory or e-discovery demands puts a considerable amount of strain on IT departments including staff, resources, and budgets. Systems must be able to handle the increased data storage needs as well as ensuring data is protected and accessible at all times. Any inability to produce data requests in a timely fashion can result in potentially disastrous financial judgments.

Overland Solutions

Backup, recovery, and archive systems designed to make data secure and accessible

Overland Storage simplifies regulatory and e-discovery compliance with systems developed specifically for compliant backup, recovery, and archive processes. In addition, companies with a distributed IT environment can utilize Overland’s replication options to manage, replicate, and archive remote data from a central location. By delivering data protection capabilities such as WORM (write once, read many), disaster recovery, reliable backups, and rapid recall of archived information, Overland Storage provides long-term compliance solutions for data stored across the data lifecycle.