Overland SnapServer N2000 has been voted ‘Best Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Product of the Year’ at the 2011 Storage Awards.

The Storage Awards, celebrating its eighth year, provide a platform for readers of Storage Magazine (UK) to reward outstanding products, services and people within the industry. Overland’s win in the NAS product category recognizes the company’s industry-leading status as an innovator - bringing to market solutions designed to simplify storage for the enterprise.

“This award reflects a very successful year with record sales of the SnapServer N2000, said Andy Walsky, Vice President of EMEA Sales. The N2000 brings simple, enterprise class storage capabilities to businesses with growing storage and limited resources. As these businesses face increasingly complex storage requirements, they are embracing the exceptional performance, reliability, value and flexibility that this solution provides.

Built on the award-winning GuardianOS platform, the SnapServer N2000 is one of the simplest NAS solutions to deploy and manage. Its unified storage architecture allows organizations to simultaneously store, protect and access both block and file data across Windows, UNIX/Linux, and Mac OS platforms, as well as virtual servers, databases, email, and backup applications.

The product also has the ability to mix SAS drives and SATA drives within the same system, enabling users to customise the performance and capacity of every volume created. Scalable up to 144 Terabytes in a compact 2U form factor, it allows companies to easily scale volume capacities instantaneously – without downtime or degraded performance.

For data protection, the N2000 has the ability to replicate to one or multiple SnapServers, take snapshots for point-in-time recovery, and perform backups to disk, VTL, or tape.