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UNITED STATES: Overland Storage Inc. announced that it has acquired Zetta Systems Inc., a privately held developer of real-time data protection software for digital storage solutions in a US $9 million, all cash, transaction. This transaction paves the way for Overland's entry into the protected primary data storage market.
Christopher Calisi, president and CEO of Overland Storage, said: "Based on their satisfaction with our NEO and REO products, our resellers and end user customers requested that we expand our product offerings to include primary storage. Zetta's software provides us with the enabling technology to deliver High Availability (HA) solutions for primary storage."
"Our NEO product line is the heart of our 'tertiary' data storage tier for data archiving and our REO products represent our 'secondary' tier for near-line disk-based backup and recovery appliances. Zetta's software will ultimately be incorporated into a protected primary storage appliance that will represent the 'primary' tier of Overland's protected storage strategy. We believe we will then have a complete offering of the broadest and most cost-effective, end-to-end storage protection in the market which will be delivered by our strong, worldwide branded sales channel."
Zetta's software is powerful enough to support an enterprise-caliber primary storage appliance. Its unlimited, instantaneous snapshot and replication technology provides superior usability and delivers robust block and file-based protection with failover so that data recovery can be accomplished quickly, reliably and inexpensively.
In addition, Zetta's software also provides thin-provisioning, a leading-edge feature that enables system administrators to virtualize their storage resources. This helps resource-strapped organizations improve storage utilization and reduce IT operational expenses without requiring changes to the infrastructure.
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