The Steelhead appliance models 100 and 200 allow us to offer customers with smaller remote offices the best priceperformance application and WAN acceleration product on the market. Unlike competitors that offer crippled versions of their products to small remote offices, including limited bandwidth capabilities to less than 256kbps and memory-only based systems with no disk-based optimization and no ability to accommodate growth, our Steelhead models 100 and 200 offer the full functionality found in our larger-scale appliances and even offer an upgrade path from the 100 to the 200.
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In the future, were going to go through a radical change. We will be creating and servicing a network of game communities...a shift from a disk-based to a network-based business.
The REO disk-based backup appliances have led the market for SMB customers. Overland is approaching the market by emphasizing value-based pricing, ease of use, and the intelligence of its Protection OS suite. ESG Research has found that customers want to retain backup data onto disk for relatively long periods of time so they can rapidly recover data. With the increased capacity support, the REO is an excellent recovery appliance. Additionally, being able to scale to 38 terabytes enables Overland to extend its reach to larger customers, leveraging its leadership and success in the SMB market.
This price point helps make enterprise-quality technology affordable to a wider range of businesses. It also allows partners to deliver a solution to their customers that is a fraction of the cost of other proprietary disk-based backup appliances.