Overland Storage, Inc. delivers data protection solutions for backup and recovery systems worldwide. Its products include Nearline data protection appliances, which provide alternative to high-end network attached storage, and storage area network solutions; disk backup and recovery appliances that are configurable as virtual tape libraries, standalone virtual tape drives, and/or disk volumes; and data protection software, including embedded storage operating system software and add on software module programmable automation controllers, which provide data protection intelligence and advanced capabilities. The company also offers tape backup and archive solutions, such as automated tape libraries manage multiple data cartridges and provide unattended backup of data. In addition, Overland Storage, Inc. offers VR2 (Variable Rate Randomizer), the company’s patented data encoding technology, which is embedded in an applications specific integrated circuit chip and is capable of increasing the native capacity and data transfer rate performance of linear tape technologies. The company markets its products through original equipment manufacturers, direct market resellers, commercial distributors, and value-added resellers principally to small and midsize businesses, multinational corporations, governmental organizations, universities, and other non-profit institutions. Its products are used in various industry sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, broadcasting, and research and development. The company was founded in 1980 as Overland Data, Inc. and changed its name to Overland Storage, Inc. in 2002. Overland Storage, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, California.