The Overland family of NEO E Series enterprise backup and archive solutions uses LTO-5 technology.
With storage capacities ranging from 45 Terabytes to 3 Petabytes and data transfer rates as high as 24 Terabytes per hour, the NEO 2000E, NEO 4000E and NEO 8000 solutions provide nearly 2X the performance and +20% in data throughput compared to their LTO-4 based predecessors.
Linear tape technology, argues the company, is the logical choice for data backup as it's the most reliable and efficient technology available.
In the midst of an iSCSI-focused renovation (engineererd by former Snap Appliance and Data Robotics execs), the company revamped its NEO tape libraries and launched a new line of Snap appliances with enhanced support for VMware and Hyper-V. Overland also now outsources product manufacturing to Foxconn, improving gross product profitability.
There's an exploding small- and medium-sized business storage market: as server virtualization and database applications demand even more capacity and performance, smaller companies need to add networked storage.
The entry-level products of EMC, NetApp and other enterprise suppliers are too costly for these small hope to take advantage of this market.
Lower cost, easy-to-use, and close integration with VMware would make networking storage devices very successful in the mid-market and SMB during the next years.