Title: Overland Storage Customers Win 'Best Practices in Storage Awards'

Date: 10/31/2005 7:30:00 AM

Carnegie Mellon University Named Winner at Storage Networking World Fall;               

National Instruments Receives Honorable Mention     SAN DIEGO, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Exponential data growth from multiple ongoing robotics projects led the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University to implement Overland Storage (Nasdaq: OVRL) disk- and tape-based data storage solutions to speed its backups.  The Center received the Best Practices in Storage Award at Storage Networking World Fall last week for the successful implementation of its backup environment.      

Jonathan Woytek, computing manager for the Center, led the installation of Overland's NEO 4100 automated tape library and REO 4000 and REO 9000 disk-based backup and recovery appliances to create an easily expandable solution for data backup.  The ability to scale storage capacity quickly and easily topped the list of Woytek's selection criteria.  The Center manages an average of 15 research projects simultaneously, each creating anywhere from a few hundred gigabytes to 12 terabytes of critical data.      

"The opportunity to leverage our existing Overland NEO tape library with a complementary disk-based solution for comprehensive D2D2T backup and recovery was extremely appealing," Woytek said.  "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."      

Also benefiting from Overland's disk and tape products is National Instruments.  The leader in virtual instrumentation received an honorable mention for increasing its backup and recovery while lowering media costs using Overland's REO 4000 and NEO 8000 to serve the growing storage requirements of their 3,500 employees in 40 countries.      

Benefits of a combined REO/NEO implementation include simplified, centralized storage management; accelerated backup and recovery operations; extensive expandability; and flexibility to conduct backups on disk and then migrate to tape for complete disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection.      

Overland's REO SERIES(TM) provides fast, reliable and feature-rich disk-based backup and recovery.  Every REO appliance comes with Protection OS(TM) software, which delivers embedded data protection intelligence including virtualization, management and connectivity features.  The Overland NEO SERIES(R) automated tape libraries provides reliable data protection with nonstop operation, expansion on demand, investment protection, remote library management, and on and two gigabyte per second serverless backup in a SAN environment.  For more information about Overland Storage products, please visit www.overlandstorage.com.      

Storage Networking World, in conjunction with Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), recognize the most effective IT user-organization case studies through the Best Practices in Storage Awards program.       About Overland Storage      

Now in its 25th year, Overland Storage is a market leader and innovative provider of simply protected storage solutions -- smart data protection appliances and software modules designed to work together, affordably, to ensure that information is automatically safe, readily available and always there. 

Overland's award-winning data protection solutions include the ULTAMUS SERIES(TM) of protected primary storage appliances; the REO SERIES(TM) of disk-based backup and recovery appliances; and the NEO SERIES(R) of tape libraries.  Overland sells its products through leading OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers. 

For more information, visit Overland's web site at www.overlandstorage.com.