Overland Storage, Inc. today unveiled its ULTAMUS RAID family of protected primary storage appliances that meet highly demanding capacity and performance requirements. Ideally suited for small to mid-sized businesses, workgroups and environments with enterprise-level storage needs, ULTAMUS RAID is a robust, affordable alternative to costly, high-end SANs as well as direct-attached and internal server-based storage.

The first models in the ULTAMUS RAID product line are the ULTAMUS RAID 5200, which offers industry-leading rack-space efficiency and a unique blade-based design to support up to 52 SATA drives and 26 TB of storage capacity in a single 4u chassis; and the ULTAMUS RAID 1200, which houses up to 12 Serial ATA (SATA) drives and 6 TB of storage capacity in each compact 2u rack-mountable enclosure. The ULTAMUS RAID family is designed to match the growing performance and capacity requirements of today’s mainstream business applications with compelling features, including:

• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) architecture for high performance;
• Standard RAID levels including RAID 6;
• Multiple 4 Gb Fibre Channel connections;
• DriveAlive™ technology for expedited RAID rebuilds;
• Integrated snapshots for point-in-time backup and restores;
• Dynamic capacity expansion;
• Fully redundant, hot swappable components and cableless design.

“ULTAMUS RAID is a logical extension of Overland’s tiered storage strategies, giving our mid-range customers powerful yet economical protected storage while leveraging the latest RAID, SAS, hot swap and cableless design” said Christopher Calisi, president and CEO of Overland Storage. “When coupled with Overland’s proven REO and NEO backup and recovery appliances, ULTAMUS RAID delivers a highly complementary, scalable data storage and protection choice.”

Overland’s ULTAMUS RAID also includes patent-pending DriveAlive technology, which enables the use of high-density storage blade technology. Additionally, this innovative capability can eliminate the need for a full rebuild if a disk drive is inadvertently removed from an active RAID set. “Mid-range customers are looking for affordable ways to maximize uptime and productivity without incurring significant costs or straining already limited administrative resources,” said Brad O’Neill, sr. analyst with Taneja Group. “The ability to offer both space- and cost-efficient RAID storage along with simplified set-up and management is a distinct plus for this market segment.”