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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 4, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 31
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Breaking News -
Storage:
Overland Storage SRM Product
Improves NAS Management
Overland Storage, a leading provider of storage solutions, announced
enhanced
Storage Resource Management (SRM) functionality for Network Attached Storage
(NAS) devices from Network Storage Solutions (NSS). Overland's SRM was tested
and qualified on the NSS NAS1000 and NSS NAS2000 gateways.
Overland SRM software's open architecture enables seamless integration with
other applications and devices with NSS NAS gateway servers. NSS is a pioneer
in the development of mid-range NAS systems, and its award-winning NAS
software, SPANStor, provides the ability to configure and manage NSS NAS
devices. IT professionals now have additional storage management functionality
with Overland SRM. By using SRM's intelligent actions for moving, migrating
and deleting data, NSS devices can keep the most relevant data, thus saving
storage space and increasing overall system performance.
"Streaming media, Web-based business applications, engineering and
scientific
applications add network data at a tremendous growth rate," said John Cloyd,
vice president of Overland's storage management business unit. "As Overland
SRM works with NSS to set thresholds, create automated policies to alleviate
IT staff intervention and free space on the NAS disk storage system, IT staffs
realize greater ROI by keeping only the most critical data and eliminating
unnecessary purchases for new storage."
"Data life cycle management is becoming more critical as federal mandates
force users to not only store, but identify large volumes of data," said Tom
Piacentini, vice president sales and marketing for NSS. "The administration of
the data is paramount to avoiding excessive data mining efforts and excessive
storage purchases that only make the identification of critical data more
difficult for the user. The combination of Overland SRM products and our
extensive NAS product line provides the tools required to manage so that you
know what data you have stored and where."
Overland SRM is designed to help businesses reduce their costs of acquiring
and managing their IT storage by providing tools that enable the development
of automated storage management, invariably reducing cost.
Overland's active SRM supports Windows NT/2000, Novell Netware, Sun
Solaris,
AIX, HP-UX and Linux operating environments, and is fully compatible with all
leading brands of server/storage products. Overland active SRM product
benefits include:
- Easy to use browser-based user interface
- Fast, non-intrusive installation with automatic push agents
- Full compatibility with all popular operating environments
- Automated data discovery with a rich suite of standard reports
- Customized powerful reporting capability
- Automated reporting, trend analysis, threshold setting/monitoring, and
automatic alarm notification for when policies are breached or thresholds are
crossed
- Quota-based storage management
- Comprehensive notification tools such as SNMP, email, pager and pop-up
messages
Overland Storage products are available though leading storage partners
worldwide. To find the one nearest you or for more information on Overland's
SRM software, please call 1-800-729-8725 or visit
www.overlandstorage.com.
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