Sphere 3D’s Overland-Tandberg Introduces SnapServer Hybrid and All Flash Array
August 10 2017 - 9:00AM
Overland-Tandberg™, the unified storage brand of Sphere 3D Corp.
(ANY), today announced a major new release across its
market-leading SnapServer® product line. Designed to allow IT
departments to modernize their data center, the SnapServer Hybrid
and All Flash Array solutions continue in the SnapServer brand’s
tradition of providing rock solid performance for thousands of
organizations of all sizes.
The overall market for flash continues to show
strong growth. During the first quarter of 2017, sales of All Flash
Array (ARA) jumped 48 percent on a year-on-year basis, per the
latest figures from market research firm Dell'Oro Group. In total,
the category generated over $1.3 billion for data storage vendors.
Also, the figures from Dell’Oro Group predict that all-flash array
revenue will grow approximately 40 percent in 2017 to reach nearly
$7 billion.
This major refresh for the SnapServer platform
not only increases the value proposition for new customers but
provides a direct path for existing customers to benefit from
Overland-Tandberg’s proprietary Guardian OS® (“GOS”) operating
system, as well as the additional support for all-flash array and
hybrid array deployments.
“The digital transformation for customers of
every size and the role that a modern data center can play for
business efficiency and resiliency cannot be overstated,” said
Peter Tassiopoulos, President of Sphere 3D. “The introduction of
the new SnapServer capabilities can go a long way to help ensure
that this transformation takes place with a robust and secure
platform for many years to come.”
The SnapServer Flash and Hybrid Array offerings
allow customers to choose either an all flash deployment or a
hybrid one. The hybrid array allows for the creation of
separate volumes, one with Flash and the other with HDDs, and then
assign the volumes for workflows with different performance
requirements. This flexibility allows, for example, the ability to
assign the Flash volume to a transactional high IOPS workload and
the HDD volume to a regular file share workload.
The SnapServer Flash and Hybrid Array NAS
solutions utilize the award winning and proprietary Guardian OS, an
enterprise class operating system based on the XFS filesystem. Some
of the unique GOS operating system highlights and features
include:
- Support for both an All-Flash appliance and a mix of HDD's
& Flash in a single appliance.
- Multi-Patented Heterogeneous and secure Replication, called
“Snap Encrypted Continuous Replication” (“Snap ECR®”) for
replication support across multiple platforms such as Windows,
Linux and SnapServers that can be centrally managed with support
for one to many and many to one replication.
- Active Directory (“AD”) integration on a granular level,
allowing for SnapServer to join as a member server and store native
access control lists (“ACL's”) on the file system to preserve a
secure environment.
- High performance snapshots with SnapServer FSA (File System
Aware) for efficient space utilization while retaining higher
performance.
- Snap DynamicRAID® for not only growing volumes, but with the
ability to shrink volumes as needs change.
- Seamless integration with the Overland-Tandberg RDX® removable
disk-based solutions, allowing policy driven scheduled &
triggered backups to RDX removable disk systems.
- Interoperable with SnapCLOUD™ for hybrid cloud offerings
utilizing SnapCLOUD in Microsoft Azure for cloud burst and to serve
as a failover site.
Availability
SnapServer Flash and Hybrid Array is available
this month with support for varying capacities that would meet a
wide range of customer performance needs. SnapServer is also backed
by the company’s OverlandCare for 24x7x365 technical support.
About Overland-Tandberg
Overland-Tandberg™ is the unified brand that leverages the
combined 50-plus-year history of the Sphere 3D Corp subsidiaries,
Overland Storage and Tandberg Data. With over one million
units deployed worldwide, Overland-Tandberg delivers data
management, backup and archive solutions via hybrid Cloud, Cloud
and on-premises implementations through its global reseller network
in over 90 countries. For more information, visit
www.tandbergdata.com and www.overlandstorage.com. Connect
with us on LinkedIn. Follow us on Twitter @ovltb.
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