| | |
|
| |
| | |
|
|
| | |
|
Overland Continues to Invest in Tape
New NEO 600s (4 drives/72 slots) and 800s (6/96) LTO-5 libraries
Overland Storage, Inc. announced the availability of NEO 600s and NEO 800s, two
new additions to its line of automated tape libraries aimed at offering more
choices for tape deployments.
Fueling the expansion of the tape storage market is an
increased demand for flexible solutions designed to address business data growth
combined with the increasing acknowledgment of tape's cost-effectiveness over
de-duplicated disk.
Research from analysts at Enterprise
Strategy Group indicates: "Tape is the
predominant storage media used for data protection due to its portability and,
from an acquisition cost perspective, its price."
As tape capacities continue to out-ship disk capacities and "the
use of tape now dominates archiving over internal disk, external disk or cloud…
tape's lead is expected to grow during the next five years, demonstrating 45
percent annual growth by 2015."
Features of the NEO 600s and NEO
800s
In response to the demand for more long-term data storage
and archiving capacity, Overland Storage has added the NEO 600s and NEO 800s to
its NEO portfolio. NEO 600s and NEO 800s solve the data storage protection
challenges that businesses face when budgets are limited and users demand more
storage capacity. NEO 600s packs up to 216TB
of backup and archive capacity into a 6U
form factor while NEO 800s provides up to
244TB in an
8U form factor, making
both solutions for data centers that need large amounts of storage capacity. In
addition NEO 600s and NEO 800s feature multi-drive support for increased
performance, redundant power for increased data availability and remote
management for ease of use and reduced administrative overhead. Utilizing LTO-5
tape drive technology, NEO 600s and NEO 800s allows businesses to leverage the
efficiencies of new linear tape file system (LTFS)
technology, allowing disk-like 'drag & drop' functionality on a tape.
Overland Customers Discuss Tape
Usage
Overland Storage recently conducted a nationwide
survey of its customers in the United States
to learn more about how they use Overland tape libraries.
Tape storage
remains a vital and irreplaceable component of the datacenter:
- Half of respondents said that their business could not
manage without tape storage
- 56% of respondents said they keep data on disk for a
month or less before moving it to tape
- 74% of respondents are using tape storage for onsite
backups and 63% are using tape storage for offsite backups and disaster
recovery
- 80% of respondents do not believe that archiving to the
cloud will replace tape storage
Industry analyst research, Overland Storage customer survey
data and the overall growth in the tape storage marketplace confirm that
tape-based storage remains a critical part of any data protection strategy due
to its cost of ownership, portability, lower energy consumption, long shelf
life, robust design and compact footprint advantages. In response to the
increasing IT demand for Overland Storage's tape-based solutions, Overland added
NEO 600s and NEO 800s to their NEO line of automated tape libraries to provide
users with additional choices in capacity, performance, features and
affordability to address their data storage challenges.
| |
| | |
|






|
|