Overland Storage acquires MaxiScale

SAN DIEGO, USA: Overland Storage, data management and data protection solutions  provider, had acquired MaxiScale, a file serving and storage provider. Terms of the deal are not disclosed.

MaxiScale, a privately held company based in Sunnyvale, California, received $25 million in venture funding and developed a platform that addresses the data storage issues faced by companies with unpredictable and rapidly expanding data storage requirements.

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Overland has gained MaxiScale's assets, intellectual property and key members of its engineering team.

The company's technology, which is currently being integrated into Overland's file storage portfolio, provides cloud-scale storage capabilities.

MaxiScale technology bridges the gap between traditional disk storage and cloud storage solutions, enabling data storage infrastructures to scale to massive capacities while maintaining reliability and a high performance end user experience.

"Business adoption of Overland's SnapServer line of data storage arrays is already strong due to its reputation for performance and reliability," said Geoff Barrall, CTO and VP, engineering, Overland Storage. "The logical next step for us is to create a clustered scalable NAS forming a local cloud of storage."