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POLICE DEPT REDUCES STOR SPENDING WITH OVERLAND'S ACTIVE SRM

Overland Storage Inc, a leading provider of storage solutions, has announced that the Dekalb County Police Department of Georgia has implemented Overland's new active Storage Resource Manager (SRM) 3 software to minimize costs and increase efficiency with current storage solutions.

"As a government agency we must maximize efficiencies and we need tools that are affordable and provide a best-of-breed solution to meet our goals," said Charles Oglesby, information systems manager for Dekalb County Police Department. "We recently implemented a SAN and had no tool to manage the usage. Overland's active SRM product enables us to meet our taxpayer's demands of being cost conscious and equips us with a great tool to manage our SAN, creating a win-win situation."

"Government agencies are held under the microscope for their budgets, and the number of agencies that are turning to Overland's active SRM product as the tool to evaluate their storage environment is increasing," said John Cloyd, vice president of Overland's storage management business unit. "Overland's SRM product is the answer to controlling unnecessary storage costs. Our solution provides a tool users can affordably purchase, rapidly deploy and see an immediate ROI."

Overland's browser-based active SRM 3 supports Windows NT/2000, Novell Netware, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux operating environments, and is fully compatible with all leading brands of server/storage products. Overland SRM is designed to help businesses reduce their costs of acquiring and managing their IT storage by providing the tools that enable the development of automated storage management, invariably reducing cost.

Overland active SRM product benefits include:

• Easy-to-use, browser-based interface
• Fast, non-intrusive installation with automatic push agents
• Full compatibility with all popular operating environments
• Automated data discovery with a rich suite of standard reports
• Customized powerful reporting capability
• Automated reporting, trend analysis, threshold setting/monitoring, and automatic alarm notification for when policies are breached or thresholds are crossed
• Quota-based storage management
• Comprehensive notification tools such as SNMP, email, pager and pop-up messages

Overland Storage products are available though leading storage partners worldwide. To find the one nearest you or for more information on Overland's SRM software, please call 800-729-8725 or visit them on the Web at www.overlandstorage.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 its award-winning automated storage 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, Overland Storage Inc, 858-571-5555, cbond@overlandstorage.com.