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OVERLAND AND BakBone ANNOUNCE VERIFIED INTERFACE OPERATIONS

Overland Storage Inc, a leading provider of storage solutions, announced recently that BakBone Software's NetVault has successfully been verified for advanced interface operations with Overland's Storage Resource Manager (SRM) software. Users deploying these two products together are assured of seamless operation, providing lower costs and more reliable network backup operations.

With Overland SRM's powerful analysis tools, an IT manager can quickly and confidently decrease the time required to perform backup operations without worrying about missing vital enterprise information. Automated file discovery tools and powerful reports reveal dormant, duplicate or non-business files prior to backup, allowing IT professionals to compress, migrate or delete the unnecessary data. Eliminating unneeded and duplicate files safely reduces the amount of enterprise data, decreasing the time required to perform the backup operation.

BakBone's NetVault provides customers a feature rich, high performance enterprise backup and recovery solution. Overland's SRM complements NetVault with third party verification by examining the enterprise file systems after the backup and producing a consolidated backup exposure report for all clients. Together they provide IT managers with reliable enterprise data protection assurance.

"BakBone and Overland are providing IT professionals the tools they need to eliminate unnecessary costs and risks from their operations," said John Cloyd, vice president of Overland's storage management business unit. "Overland and BakBone software engineers verified that our software products work consistently and reliably together. We have barely scratched the surface of integrating SRM functionality with both the backup and recovery aspects of business continuity planning. We look forward to working with BakBone to bring additional integrated tools to our users in the future."

"Working with Overland provides our customers another option for managing their storage and assuring that their data has been safely backed up according to their requirements," said Randy Batterson, vice president of strategic alliance, BakBone Software. "Overland SRM combined with our software allows our customers to clean up the data before the backup runs and verify that the right things were captured after the backup ends. This opens exciting new possibilities to lower cost while increasing the efficiency and reliability of storage resources."

BakBone will be a featured company in Overland's SRM software demonstrations, and both companies will promote this solution in upcoming marketing activities. To learn more about this offering, please visit www.overlandstorage.com/PDFs/srm_netvault.pdf.

About BakBone Software

BakBone Software is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes high-performance software solutions to the network storage and open systems markets. BakBone's backup and restore software provides scalable data protection from the workgroup to the enterprise. Founded in 2000, BakBone Software's products are used by companies worldwide, and are distributed through a network of OEMs and solution providers.

BakBone's corporate headquarters is located at 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, San Diego, California 92121. For more information on BakBone products, call 866-484-2663, e-mail sales@bakbone.com, or access BakBone's Web site at www.bakbone.com.

About Overland Storage

Overland Storage Inc is a leading global supplier of innovative hardware and software storage solutions for mid-range computer networks. The Company's reputation for delivering high availability products, including the award-winning NEO Series of tape libraries and the industry's first family of fully open storage management software solutions, sets the standard for intelligent, automated and scalable storage. Overland sells its products worldwide through leading OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers. For more information, visit Overland's Web site at www.overlandstorage.com.

Contact: Cynthia A. Bond, Director of Corporate Communications of Overland Storage Inc, 858-571-5555, cbond@overlandstorage.com.