Overland iSCSI SnapSAN S2000 Verified as Citrix Ready

Overland Storage Inc. announced that its SnapSAN S2000 has been verified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. Overland’s SnapSAN S2000 completed a verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix XenServer, providing confidence in joint solution compatibility.

The Citrix Ready program makes it easy for customers to identify complementary products and solutions that can enhance Citrix environments. Customers can be confident that SnapSAN S2000 has successfully passed a series of tests established by Citrix, and can be trusted to work effectively with Citrix XenServer in order to provide joint customers with a robust virtualized server environment.

The SnapSAN S2000 enables companies using Windows Server, Hyper-V, VMware, UNIX, Linux, Citrix, or Mac OS X to take advantage of SAN capabilities that have traditionally been considered too complex to manage without specialized expertise, including active-active mirroring and failover, snapshots, replication and Microsoft Cluster Server support. Featuring automated capacity expansion, the solution enables policy-based storage volume growth to occur in a just-in-time manner without IT intervention, eliminating guesswork and over-provisioning. The SnapSAN S2000 scales effortlessly to 192TB and is a cost effective solution for businesses with virtualized server environments or storage consolidation requirements.

"Overland Storage is a great addition to the storage solutions verified by the Citrix Ready program," said John Fanelli, vice president of solutions and community marketing at Citrix Systems, Inc. "Citrix Ready makes it easier for customers to select the most suitable virtualization infrastructure products for their specific needs. By taking part in our program, Overland Storage has enabled its customers to obtain the highest quality user experience available today, and the simplest means for making an informed product purchasing selection."

"As a member of the Citrix Ready program, we are able to offer customers intelligent solutions that combine our SnapSAN S2000 with the Citrix virtualization platform," said Jillian Mansolf, vice president, global sales and marketing, Overland Storage. "We remain completely focused on listening to and addressing the specific storage needs of businesses by working closely with trusted partners, through the Citrix Ready partner ecosystem and by offering storage solutions that can quickly and easily be deployed within existing environments for instant scalability and reliability. Overland strives to deliver storage solutions that are truly effortless for businesses of any size."

SnapSAN S2000 and the SnapServer E2000 expansion unit are available.