Overland's MinilibraryXpress Garners High Praise; Network Computing Reviewer Impressed by Company's Autoloader.Business/Technology Editors SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2000 Overland Data, Inc. (Nasdaq:OVRL), a technology leader in tape backup Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. products, received high praise for its DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. MinilibraryXpress(TM) in a review entitled "Overland Data's Dual-DLT Battleship battleship, large, armored warship equipped with the heaviest naval guns. The evolution of the battleship, from the ironclad warship of the mid-19th cent., received great impetus from the Civil War. Is Built to Last," which appeared in the April 3 edition of Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. magazine. Reviewer Tom Yager gave kudos to the unit's durable construction and ample security features: "Overland Data's DLT MinilibraryXpress is one desktop (or rackmount) autoloader that can hold its own among even your most ham-handed operators," the review said. "This is server gear that craves abuse ... and is an ideal solution for ASPs (application service providers), data centers and service bureaus that run some sort of backup constantly. "The unit is also secure. I tried breaking into this library and found that it's easier to disassemble dis·as·sem·ble v. dis·as·sem·bled, dis·as·sem·bling, dis·as·sem·bles v.tr. To take apart: disassemble a toaster. v.intr. 1. the cabinet ... the LXM8215 is the most secure backup device See backup storage. I've used." Yager said he was impressed with the unit's quality, simplicity and ease-of-use. He highlighted how the machine continued to operate when subjected to tests such as tilting the cabinet at a steep angle and shaking the cabinet while the robot was operating. Yager also singled out the device's three-year warranty, 250,000-hour mean-time between failures, 1 million head passes per cartridge and 50,000-hour head life per drive. "We are pleased that this latest model of our award-winning DLT MinilibraryXpress has continued the tradition of excellence that we strive for in all of our products," said Steve Richardson, Vice President of Marketing at Overland. "For a reviewer to extol ex·tol also ex·toll tr.v. ex·tolled also ex·tolled, ex·tol·ling also ex·toll·ing, ex·tols also ex·tolls To praise highly; exalt. See Synonyms at praise. the virtues of our machine -- and to do so in a highly respected publication like Network Computing -- gives us a validation that we are providing our customers with the best possible storage solutions available." The LXM8215 comes equipped with two DLT8000 tape drives and a magazine that holds 15 DLT cartridges. It was tested using a Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT server equipped with dual 450-MHz Pentium II CPUs and 256 MB of RAM. Yager used Veritas Backup Exec 7.3 while storing the test data on a Consensys RAIDZone array with eight 27-GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus Ultra DMA/66 drives. Network Computing is a magazine with a circulation of 220,000 written for networking professionals and managers. The publication's editorial charter is to provide information on products and trends to assist network computing professionals with purchasing decisions and technical problems. It is available online at http://www.networkcomputing.com. About Overland Overland Data, Inc. (Nasdaq:OVRL) is a global supplier of innovative data storage and storage automation solutions for computer networks. The Company's award-winning DLT LibraryXpress(TM) SmartScale Storage(R) architecture has set new standards for intelligent automated storage and scalability and established Overland as a leader in the mid-range tape storage market. Today, Overland is broadening its product line and technology offerings to address additional segments of the storage market, including the entry-level small-business market, as well as the higher-end enterprise environment. Overland's patented Variable Rate Randomizer In telecommunication, the term randomizer has the following meanings: 1. A device used to invert the sense of pseudorandomly selected bits of a bit stream to avoid long sequences of bits of the same sense (also referred to as scrambler). (VR2(TM)) data encoding technology, capable of substantially increasing the capacity and throughput of linear tape formats, is being applied by the Company to Travan tape drives, and has been licensed to Seagate Technology, Tandberg Data and Imation Corp. Overland products, acclaimed for their quality and reliability, are sold worldwide through leading OEMs, including Compaq, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a Japanese and German IT vendor, selling consumer and business computing products in the markets of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (products marketed elsewhere are sold under the Fujitsu brand). and Groupe Bull; commercial distributors such as Ingram Micro, Tech Data Corp. and Bell Microproducts; as well as storage integrators and value-added resellers. Note to Editors: DLT and DLTtape are registered trademarks of Quantum Corp. worldwide. |
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