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SAN DIEGO, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL) today announced that esteemed customer, Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK), a leading provider of advanced weapon and space systems with $4.5 billion in annual sales, has been recognized as a Laureate by the Computerworld Honors Program. This year's honorees were commemorated last night during the 20th Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony & Gala Awards event at the Andrew W. Mellon auditorium in Washington, D.C. ATK's award-winning case study, "Tiered Data Protection Gets Lift-Off," was recognized for its highly effective use of leading-edge storage, disk-based VTLs and scalable tape libraries from Overland Storage.
At ATK, a service-oriented, performance-based data protection and disaster recovery model safeguards soaring storage requirements. In supporting ATK's Baltimore operations, an operating unit in Elkton, Md., and a remote location in California, 150 TBs of storage have been allocated for active, production data along with data backups and resource volumes.
As early proponents of disk-based backup and recovery, ATK initially
deployed Overland's REO VTLs along with a scalable NEO 2000 tape library
for disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection. VMware and FalconStor's IPStor
SANs were embraced for server and storage virtualization. When an EMC
Clariion SAN became oversaturated due to a
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