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“NEO expedited our tape backups while REO gave us 'on-the-fly' capacity expansion and helped take our D2D2T backup and recovery to the next level.”

Jonathan Woytek
Computing Manager
National Robotics Engineering Center

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“The NEO/REO solution paid for itself in just 14 months, validating our decision to go in a new direction with our worldwide backup and recovery strategy.”

Tim Clement
IT Manager

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CUSTOMER QUOTES

  Sage Telecom
"Overland’s REO provides unmatched versatility and has decreased the time to backup our servers by 80 percent. And it gave us fast data recovery in an easy to use, affordable solution. My life became easier instantly."
Tony Ledbetter, Director of Information Technology
  Hunt Petroleum
"Overland's REO and NEO™ give us the flexibility to grow our Windows, Linux and Unix tier-two storage on-the-fly, while reducing our backup and recovery window by more than 60 percent."
Darrin Edgerton, Network Administrator
  Ready Hosting
"Overland's REO worked hand-in-hand with our backup and recovery software to deliver the highest levels of performance, flexibility and scalability."
Russ Vaughn, Chief Technology Officer
  Rover USA
"Rover USA's success depends solely on storing and protecting our customers' mission-critical business data. As a result, we buy only the very best technology products on the market. That's why we selected the Overland Storage REO 9000 disk-to-disk appliance and the NEO 2000 tape library. With these products, our customers' data is reliably backed up and easy to recover instantly, enabling Rover USA to fulfill the promises we make to our customers, and grow with a product that expands as we do."
Bryan Kearney, Chief Executive Officer
  Sacramento PD
"Overland's REO?surpassed all others in terms of price and performance, giving us powerful, flexible and affordable disk-based backup."
Lance Hawkes, Senior Systems Engineer
  Southern Federal Credit Union
"Life is so much easier with the REO. It would have been virtually impossible to streamline our backup and recovery while slashing our administrative costs without it."
David Gill, Network Administrator
 

ANALYST QUOTES

  Enterprise Strategy Group
"REO SERIES is the world's best selling purpose-built disk-based backup and recovery appliance."
Tony Asaro, Sr. Analyst
  IDC
"Solutions like Overland Storage's Multi-SitePAC will make it possible for IT managers at large and medium sized businesses to centrally and cost-effectively manage the replication of important business data between multiple locations without requiring major changing in existing storage environments."
Rick Villars
Enterprise Strategy Group
"Today, affordable disk as virtual tape offers the dual benefit of accelerating backup and recovery times without introducing risk into the storage environment. This is where the REO excels. Given the REO's success, Overland has emerged as a clear leader in disk-based backup."
Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst
Data Mobility Group
"Small and medium businesses need an affordable, easy-to-use data protection solution that automates the backup and recovery process and reduces the risk of business interruptions. The ability of the REO 1000 to be dynamically configured as disk, tape or both is unlike anything else on the market. In short, the REO 1000 offers flexible features for small and medium businesses at an affordable price."
Dianne McAdam, Senior Analyst and Partner
  Enterprise Strategy Group
Overland Storage - Right Product, Right Time. Overland’s biggest challenge in the coming year may be keeping up with demand for the REO."
Peter Gerr
Data Mobility Group
"Overland's newest addition to the REO family, the REO 9000, delivers a unique combination of functionality, flexibility and ease-of-use with its ProtectionPAC software. The REO 9000 solves end-user challenges while lowering the total cost of ownership for backup and recovery."
Dianne McAdam, Senior Analyst and Partner
Evaluator Group
"With Multi-SitePAC, Overland Storage takes a unique approach to solving an age-old problem."
Randy Kerns
Data Mobility Group
"Multi-SitePAC enables customers to automatically centralize and manage remote backups, without requiring changes to backup processes at the remote sites."
Dianne McAdam, Senior Analyst and Partner
 

MEDIA QUOTES

  Storage Awards
"REO 4000?- Disk Product of the Year (2005)."
  InfoStor
"Overland says it has begun the transformation of its REO SERIES from a pure-play backup and recovery appliance into a more specialized platform for running applications such as remote backup mirroring."
Heidi Biggar
Computer Technology Review
"Best of the best! Overland REO!"
Byte and Switch
"The REO SERIES of disk-to-disk backup and recovery appliances improve backup reliability, provide near-instant data recovery and significantly reduce backup administration time."
Search Storage
"The company’s 1,000th REO customer, technology company Rover USA, is using the REO to protect growing volumes of data."
Techworld
"Overland Storage is providing Multi-SitePAC software for its REO disk-to-disk (D2D) backup appliances. With it, REOs in branch offices and other remote sites backup the local information to disk. It's then mirrored, in virtual tape format, to a REO in a central site and, voila, you have disaster recovery for your branch offices."
Chris Mellor
  Byte and Switch
"Overland has been the boldest of the tape guys about openly embracing disk and the software that enables disk-based backup."
Dave Raffo
  CRN
"With Multi-SitePAC™ at the remote site, it’s completely transparent, [Dave Holloway] said. There’s no need to change any software or scripts. Just back up to the REO."
Joe Kovar
  eWeek
"The department decided to implement Overland’s REO 4000 and NEO 2000 to form the heart of its new disk-to-disk-to-tape offering. The combined offering has reduced the police department’s backup times by 70 percent."
Brian Fonseca
  Computerworld
"The [REO] appliance can significantly reduce the app server dead time associated with replacing slow tape library operations with faster, disk-based backups and restores. It performs well and is easy to share across different servers."