Infrastructure & Applications
Shared storage, data protection and backup/recovery operations provide significant benefits to companies, however they also brings a new level of complexity to IT departments. Most IT managers deploy shared storage in order to increase storage utilization, improve application performance, reduce data protection complexity and simplify management tasks. While shared storage does provide those benefits, it also requires a new level of expertise, planning and experience in order to effectively deploy, manage and maintain shared storage solutions. Overland Storage has developed industry proven SAN, NAS, and unified storage systems that are intuitive, easy to deploy, and simple to manage.
Server Virtualization
Market Challenges
Server virtualization consolidates servers while increasing application availability however it can also create storage, data protection, backup/recovery, and archive challenges
The advantages of server virtualization are well documented. Server virtualization increases application availability, consolidates physical servers, and greatly simplifies application server management. Conversely, server virtualization tends to complicate storage, data protection, backup/recovery, and archiving processes. Virtualized servers have different requirements than physical servers and require certified shared storage (SAN or NAS) plus server virtualization specific data protection and backup/recovery.
In order to avoid the common challenges of storage management, data protection, backup and recovery on virtualized servers, many companies must rely on the extent of the vendor’s expertise.
Overland Solutions
Storage, data protection, backup/recovery, and archive solutions that are certified for VMware®, as well as most server virtualization technologies and are built to fulfill the promise of server virtualization while eliminating common challenges
Server virtualization requires storage that leverages advanced application availability features such as live migration and flexible VM movement, while taking advantage of built-in data protection. To be most effective, virtualized servers should have shared storage system solutions that are just as easy to implement, operate, manage, maintain, and upgrade.
Overland Storage provides storage systems, data protection, backup/recovery, and archive that enable companies to leverage the full benefits of virtualized servers without adding an additional layer of complexity.
Protocols
Market Challenges
Multiple protocols typically means redundant storage networks, systems, software, and management interfaces that are time consuming to manage and maintain
CIFS is the file networking protocol of choice for Windows servers and applications. For Linux and UNIX NFS or SSH for encrypted communications is the protocol most used. SAN also has two protocol choices with iSCSI (SCSI mapped to TCP/IP on Ethernet or FCP (SCSI on Fibre Channel).
The reality is multiple protocols, multiple storage systems and multiple storage networks require additional hardware, rack space and management. In addition, data migration, data protection, backup/recovery, and archiving become even more difficult and complex because each system has a unique management interface.
Overland Solutions
Unified storage solutions that consolidate multiple protocols into one easy system that can be deployed and managed by non-experts
Overland Storage SnapServer NAS was one of the first unified storage systems on the market and one of the most successful storage systems ever. With SnapServer NAS, companies can take advantage of unified multi-protocol that is supported in a wide range of platforms and capacities. With Overland SnapServer Manager, IT administrators can effortlessly manage SnapServer NAS from a single interface.