5/14/2013 | Posted by Mike Alvarado, Overland Storage

On-demand computing has been adopted because continuous access to data best supports the needs of global business operations. Vendors with specific equipment and software combinations portray their wares as the exclusive path to adopt. Nothing could be less truthful.  Cloud is a choice about business strategy not about equipment.

The Cloud is, and should be, understood as a platform for meeting the evolving requirements of global business. There are essential components that enable this outcome: Read more…

5/1/2013 | Posted by Mike Alvarado, Overland Storage

Server virtualization galvanized advancements in information technology in the last fifteen years. Widespread adoption of server and other virtualization helped create systems that easily expand, self-manage and adapt IT to better respond to changing workloads at lower unit cost. Vendors created a lot of supporting technology further enhancing and extending virtualization. The next ten years should demonstrate more and even greater benefit from investing in virtualization. Read more…

4/18/2013 | Posted by Mike Alvarado, Overland Storage

One of my roles at Overland Storage is to comment on critical business, technology and product trends using my 30 years of experience in the information technology industry both from the vendor side and the end user side. I hope my comments will spark some vigorous conversations about the issues I plan discuss in future blogs.

Today I am going to touch upon six future trends that I believe will generate a great deal of the spending corporations make on IT infrastructure projects. A significant driver of spending for corporations is the ever increasing dependence on continuous data access to power their business, their joint ventures and to uncover market opportunities. This need will in turn increase the demand for even a more resilient storage infrastructure than ever before.  Read more…

March 27, 2013 | Posted by Jillian Mansolf, Senior VP of Global Sales and Marketing

I’d like to start this blog with a very exciting announcement: Overland Storage’s Partner Program, FastTrack, has just been awarded a 5-Star rating by CRN.

This elite ranking within the Program Guide is recognized as major accolade due to the visibility it has in the channel. Choice buzz words like “definitive listing” of vendors that supply the IT channel keep coming up in conversation, and every time I hear it, it makes me proud. Not only because this is the first time that our FastTrack Partner Program has received this honor, but also because 2012 was an amazing year of channel development for us with new product releases, revenue successes and record partner growth. It was all there and more. Read more…