Overland Storage, in partnership with distribution company Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has unveiled Ultamus Pro, a primary disc storage appliance. This is in a bid to grow into the primary disc market, according to John Mills district account manager for Overland Storage UK.
"Overland is pushing the disc-based products aggressively, but tape will always have a place," says Anthony Yates product specialist for storage solutions at DCC.
"Until two years ago Overland was strictly tape. It saw a growing need in the market for disc and so entered that market with its Reo appliances. The Reo is primarily a disc-based backup appliance.
"Overland has now seen the opportunity in the primary storage market and hence has launched the Ultamus product to fill that gap. It will now provide all three tiers of storage - primary, secondary and archiving," adds Yates.
Mills says the solution will meet data storage, data recovery and data protection requirements. "We are not re-inventing the wheel just simply adding a spoke."
"Ultamus Pro delivers built-in data protection and simplified data capacity management and has Protection OS software for storage intelligence and features including high availability snapshots, remote and location replication virtualisation," Mills explains.
"We acknowledge that the Ultamus Pro 500 units will be on more of a project basis with much longer sales cycles. We do, however, see potential for the product.
"There are clients looking for more enterprise primary storage and the fact that all the functionality (snap shots, replication) is built into the machine gives us a good foot to stand on," adds Yates.
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