Compliance:

OverDrive's ability to control and manage network infrastructure services through persisted policies affords the enterprise IT manager a comprehensive solution that satisfies multiple audit controls and cumbersome reporting requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI, or other federal mandates in heavily regulated industries.

Product Sheet - Compliance

Disaster Recovery:

OverDrive affords the ability to define an unlimited number of ‘response scenarios’ to any type of potential outage or emergency. Special DR policies can be created and set to a ‘pending’ state where they will remain until activated with a single keystroke. Upon activation, these DR policies can implement fundamental changes in the network in a matter of seconds. If necessary, DR policies can even reconfigure entire logical networks, topologies and critical access to key applications and services.

Product Sheet - Disaster Recovery

Network Virtualization:

One of the largest issues facing large VMware deployments is the enormous amount of operational time and labor IT organizations spend constructing and modifying network-level connectivity to support virtual devices. This is especially true for companies with very fluid environments where virtual devices are being added or moved regularly between physical locations or network segments.  OverDrive provides the answer to this problem by virtualizing the network itself. Using OverDrive, IT network engineers create and define policies that control and manage the underlying network infrastructure services in relation to VMware resources.

Product Sheet - Virtualization

Operational Efficiency Improvements:

OverDrive fully automates the initiation, deployment, control and management of infrastructure services through the policies that are automatically translated into actual device-level configurations which are then pushed out to the appropriate network devices in real-time. This level of automation is capable of reducing the total cost of ownership of network infrastructure devices by as much as 70%.

The problem is common across enterprises of all sizes. CEO's and CIO's, in tough market conditions are looking for ways to optimize efficiency and reduce costs within their network and communication infrastructures. Adding to the problem, are recent advancements in convergence technologies. These new platforms, on one hand, enable the deployment of feature-rich infrastructure services that deliver significant improvements in business efficiency, while at the same time, increase the complexity for operational support teams and add additional costs against already strained budgets.

OverDrive for the Enterprise™ is the next generation of infrastructure control and management for enterprise networking that helps eliminate the pressures on today's infrastructure support teams. This unique policy-based technology is fundamentally different than any other network infrastructure solution available in its ability to fully automate the process of initiating, controlling and managing network services across large complex networked environments.

OverDrive utilizes a unique ‘top-down’, policy-driven, approach that fully automates traditional infrastructure service deployment and support activities for common network devices (routers, switches and converged firewall devices).  Using this powerful, automated solution, OverDrive customers have been able to streamline operations and save significant amounts of time and labor expense.

Operational design and support tasks that normally take days or weeks to complete with manual processes and command line configurations are now done in seconds. Customers have realized savings of over 80% and more in terms of operational time and cost through the policy-based automation provided by OverDrive. Additionally, OverDrive also removes the risk of introducing errors into production environments through manual mistakes on the command line as well as providing full auditing and real-time feedback on the status of deployed services across any size network environment.

OverDrive IS NOT another network management or configuration management tool. OverDrive IS a combination of many of the best features of these tools and far more with the added benefits of full automation provided through business level policy control.

OverDrive IS NOT a cobbled-together suite of scripts and semi-automated manual processes. OverDrive IS a full featured “top-down” policy-driven solution that fully automates traditional infrastructure deployment and support activities for network-based services and devices, such as routers, switches and firewall's.

OverDrive IS NOT an extension of some existing, antiquated technology that has been re-packaged. OverDrive IS an entirely new concept and technology that has been built from the ground up over 5 years and designed specifically for the enterprise network environment.

Product Sheet - Features and Benefits