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Education

Overland works with education institutions around the world to develop solutions that address their unique challenges

Educational institutions face unique technology challenges in the 21st century. Working with tight budgets, ballooning enrollments, and increasingly technology-dependent programs, the operating environment for educational IT infrastructure has never been greater.

Overland knows that the data storage requirements of educational institutions are particularly daunting due to a number of factors that compound growth and complexity:

• Legacy application and database support: Most IT teams must manage a blend of new and legacy applications and databases. These heterogeneous data environments often create non-efficient long-term data stores that grow with lower utilization rates.
  
  
• Distributed architectures: Managing multiple networks across campus locations or geographies can be a challenge for many educational institutions. As SAN and NAS networks also scale to support these distributed networks, applications and data centers, a storage complexity problem can grow in parallel.
  
  
• Online curricula: While online learning represents a powerful opportunity for educational institutions, the 24x7x365 infrastructure requirements of internet-based education adds a non-trivial level of new data storage requirement, all of which is typically addressed by the existing core IT team of the institution in question.
  
  
• Network abuse: It’s a well known fact that large percentages of network traffic on educational campuses are subject to abuse for downloading of content. In addition to the degradation in data transfer rates, this also leads to wasted storage capacities. Most institutions do not yet have programs for reclaiming these “hijacked” storage capacities.
  
  
• Long-term archiving: For both research and administration purposes, many institutions have seen a marked increase in their archiving requirements in recent years. Scaling these infrastructures in a cost-effective many that does not sacrifice data access is a challenge for many IT teams.

Overland Solutions for Education IT

Realizing that complexity in educational IT does not have to mean data storage complexity, Overland works with education institutions around the world to develop solutions that address their unique challenges:

• Cost-effective scaling: Whether your institution is localized to one site of operations or global, scaling on your terms is a focus of every solution Overland deploys with education customers.
  
  
• Centralized management: A key differentiator Overland brings to the education IT team is the ability to centrally manage a highly distributed storage environment. Whether you are working across a single campus with multiple departments, or multiple geographies, unified management of assets and data is the key to Overland’s effortless data promise.
  
  
• Virtualization solutions: No matter where you are in your adoption of virtualization technology, Overland can meet you there and integrate your storage appropriately. For institutions centralizing storage to recover capacities or to support a virtualized server environment, Our entire family of offerings can support and extend your mission.

Healthcare

Overland works with healthcare teams to tackle their most challenging data storage scenarios.

Health care organizations are dealing with some of the most difficult challenges in technology today. Perhaps more than any other industry sector, healthcare IT teams must simultaneously address a rapidly changing landscape on multiple fronts:

• Data growth rates: Healthcare organizations are facing extremely high data growth rates, not just from imaging applications (PACS) and electronic medical records (EMS), but also from the core IT applications and their associated databases on which their organizations operate.
  
  
• Compliance management: Healthcare organizations are now dealing with a range of US federal and state compliance requirements, most notably HIPAA in the USA and the EU Directive in Europe. Such compliance requirements place strict data hygiene and privacy considerations in front of IT teams.
  
  
• Budgetary limitations: Whether healthcare institutions are big or small, their IT teams are doing more with less. From a data storage perspective, this places a spotlight on capacity management, scaling approaches, and overall cost-effectiveness of technologies deployed.
  
  
• Long-term archiving: For both research and administration purposes, many institutions have seen a marked increase in their archiving requirements in recent years. Scaling these infrastructures in a cost-effective many that does not sacrifice data access is a challenge for many IT teams.

Overland Solutions for Healthcare IT

Everyday, Overland works with healthcare IT teams across the globe to tackle their most challenging data storage scenarios.

• Collaboration Support: Whether sharing diagnostic data or EMR between departments or across the planet, storage solutions from Overland Storage can constitute a critical component of healthcare data requirement needs, and collaboration architectures.
  
  
• Imaging Storage: For both primary and secondary storing of PACS, Overland has the architecture to fit the requirements of healthcare providers large and small, alike. SnapServer NAS, and REO VTL solutions make it possible to achieve a tiered data storage approach at a price healthcare organizations can afford.
  
  
• Compliance Infrastructure: Your compliance program depends on a data storage partner you can trust over the long haul. Overland virtual tape and archival solutions have the WORM capability to support your long-term archiving and security requirements for HIPAA, EU Directive and other retention-sensitive compliance initiatives.
  
  
• Centralized Scaling: Many healthcare institutions are now exploring data centralization programs to control their explosive data growth. Overland has the experience to play a critical role in extending these consolidation efforts. With full support for virtualization environments, and high-scale VTL, D2D2T, and archiving capabilities, Overland can help reduce the costs of storing and scaling healthcare information.

Government

Overland works with government IT teams to deliver secure, reliable data solutions.

Public sector agencies and organizations of all types are balancing the demand for increasing flexibility in their IT infrastructures with the economic and operational realities of the day. From local police and fire departments to large federal agencies, government IT teams share several common identifiable challenges that set them apart:

• Data Availability. Public sector IT teams work hard to make their applications and data available at all times. Building highly available data infrastructures with minimal complexity and cost is a key deployment consideration.
  
  
• Data Security. Government organizations must look for technology partners that can meet stringent data security requirements, both for data at rest and for data in transit. Demonstrable end-to-end data security is non-optional for most agencies and organizations operating with sensitive records and information.
  
  
• Cost-Effective Deployment. Public sector IT teams need to marry the best possible price with the best possible technology. When it comes to a data storage infrastructure, this means choosing vendors that not only give lip service to cost controls, but prove it in how they scale over time.

Overland Solutions for Public Sector IT

Overland enjoys a proud track record of supporting government agencies and organizations with their high-growth data infrastructures. Public sector IT teams look to Overland to provide several differentiators:

• Reliability: From high uptimes and fault-tolerance in the SnapServer line, or continued operations for years on end across the REO VTL and NEO tape archive product portfolio, governments can look to Overland to deliver.
  
  
• Ease of Management: Whether using the SnapServer NAS, REO VTL or NEO tape solutions, Overland provides simplified, centralized management to reduce complexity and make storage management effortless for the public sector IT professional.
  
  
• Centralized Scaling: Many government teams are now exploring data centralization programs to control the explosive data growth their “save everything” mentality is causing. Overland has the experience to play a critical role in extending these consolidation efforts. With full support for virtualization environments, and high-scale VTL, D2D2T, tape, and archiving capabilities, Overland can help reduce the costs of storing and scaling public sector information.
  

Legal

Legal firms team with Overland to provide flexible protection to their data storage infrastructures.

Legal practices of all sizes are information-driven businesses with complex workflows. Whether dealing with client facing collaboration, e-room management, billing systems, or e-discovery applications, several data-centric considerations are high on most legal firms’ IT lists:

• Data Sharing: Legal practice workflows have more intensive data sharing than is realized by many observers outside of the industry. Whether its file-level collaboration, complex e-room deployments, e-discovery, or client record management, legal IT teams need centralized data storage solutions that can reduce data complexity and integrate across a range of industry-specific workflows and applications.
  
  
• Management Simplicity: From a data storage management perspective, legal IT teams place a premium on reduced touches. Network Attached Storage (NAS) has become the storage platform of choice for legal teams, as a result. Beyond the NAS platform, legal teams want simplified data protection schema, replication capabilities and capacity management.
  
  
• Long-term Retention: Many legal IT teams are facing a significant increase in their long-term data retention requirements. Driven by a combination of collaboration, client engagement complexity, best practices and legal regulations, archival content is on the rise. As a result, IT teams are looking for cost-effective archiving solutions that do not sacrifice flexibility.

Overland Solutions for Legal IT

Overland works with legal teams around the world to achieve their unique data storage objectives. From supporting collaboration with SnapServer NAS and SAN solutions, to protecting client data with REO VTL and NEO tape solutions, it’s easy to find the right legal solution with Overland.

• NAS Collaboration: Overland’s SnapServer NAS solutions are a tested choice for delivering both performance and reliability to legal IT teams. Whether supporting a single small office or thousands of counsel and support teams across several geographies, Overland has the self-managing infrastructure to address the task.
  
  
• Flexible Protection: For protecting legal applications that require high-performance data access, Overland provides NEO disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) solutions. For long-term protection, look no further than Overland for REO VTL and NEO tape systems for peace of mind.
  
  
• Lifecycle Integration: Because most legal IT teams are touching multiple levels of the infrastructure, from applications and services all the way back to archiving, Overland reduces the management load with end-to-end integration for all aspects of the data lifecycle. Overland’s data lifecycle capabilities mean that legal teams can entrust Overland to stage data where it needs to be at the right time, whether it be production data, disk-based recovery or long-term archival.

Video Surveillance

Market Challenges

Advancements in surveillance technologies demand high performance, reliability, and capacity, combined with low cost IP storage

While the physical security advantages of video surveillance are significant, many companies now face serious trade-offs in how they manage the increasing complexity and scale of their surveillance infrastructures:

• Image quality versus performance: A common trade-off concerns megapixel quality and support for high-zoom and resolution, versus overall performance of the recording installation. The choice an IT team makes for their supporting data infrastructure can dramatically impact overall surveillance performance.
  
  
• Archival management: Retention is always a consideration in surveillance, made all the more critical due to the increasing storage capacities resulting from high resolution deployments. Finding ways to optimize the stored video content for long-term retrieval can be a budgetary and management challenge for many organizations.
  
  
• Centralized access: As IP-based video surveillance systems become more prominent, organizations are seeking to take advantage of centralized management of distributed surveillance infrastructures, often covering multiple locations. A flexible storage strategy that can support the usage profile of a high-scale IP-based surveillance infrastructure is critical.

Overland Solutions for Video Surveillance

Smart backup/recovery, easy to use and "within your means" solutions that are able to implement third party software to create an ideal video surveillance solution

Overland Storage offers highly reliable, high performance, scalable, SnapServer NAS and SAN storage systems are built to simultaneously support high-resolution image streams from multiple cameras and simplify installation and ongoing management of the video system.

Overland's SnapServers are designed to be intuitively simple and put the storage expertise into the system instead of requiring it from the administrator. SnapServers also provide the storage flexibility demanded in video surveillance by delivering cross-protocol support, including NFS, CIFS file sharing protocols and/or iSCSI (block data over Ethernet). Integration with existing security infrastructures is easy, flexible, and secure.

Overland Storage works with video surveillance companies to create the right mix of features and functionality to create a complete video surveillance package.