Overland Storage Neo 4000 Voted Product Of The Year
SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine pick Overland Storage Neo 4000 from Open Storage Solutions as their Gold Medal winner and backup hardware Product of the Year.
BRAMPTON, ON January 14, 2003 — Open Storage Solutions Inc, a leading data storage system integrator is proud to announce that The Overland Neo Series 4000 tape library has been awarded Product of the Year and Gold in the backup hardware category from SearchStorage.com and Storage Magazine. (January 6, 2003 www.searchstorage.com)
The Neo Series 4000 tape libraries scale from one drive and 52 cartridges to 16 drives and 240 cartridges. The Neo LXN4000 series accommodates DLT8000, SDLT, SDLT320, LTO-1 and recently added support for LTO-2 drives. The Neo is designed to accommodate enterprises forecasting widespread growth with advanced features like its superior scalability and failover capabilities. The Neo also supports 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s FC technology.
The Neo has features not readily available on other tape libraries. For instance, the Neo is able to be remotely repaired on the fly. This allows administrators to find an error and fix it without bringing systems down and without tinkering with cabling. The Neo Series also economizes floor space with its rack design. This rack-and-stack feature allows anywhere from 4TB to 66TB and can write 115GB/hour to 1,840GB/hour.
Additionally, the Neo has a partitioning option that allows for virtual sublibraries, allowing for a centralized point of management. Included in the ease of manageability is a touch-screen GUI. Software companies participating in the certification of Overland's Neo tape libraries include Computer Associates, Legato, Veritas, Tivoli, BakBone, CommVault, Syncsort, Atempo, everStor, and LiveVault. The price of the Neo also pleased the judges -- anywhere from $22,500 (USD) for the low end and about $115,000 (USD) for the system fully loaded.
The following criteria were used to select the winner: Innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value.
Nominations were solicited from vendorsand the market. A panel of judges were recruited, composed of independent industry experts, storage managers and editors.
About Open Storage Solutions
Open Storage Solutions, Inc has been designing and integrating advanced storage products for high performance computer applications for over 25 years. The company has a total commitment to providing the very best value solutions by utilizing leading edge technology and backing it with a high level of after sales service. Open Storage Solutions provides storage solutions from disk and tape systems, RAID systems as well as Enterprise Class servers, Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Networks.