Increased Operating Margins:

OverDrive supports the deployment of mass customized IP services (routing, VPN, VLAN, firewall, access) in real time; increasing revenue margins and maximizing operational efficiencies that translate into significant cost savings and immediate productivity gains for your managed service business. The automation capabilities of OverDrive policies initiate multiple network services simultaneously across large deployed network environments without the need for long hours spent on command lines trying to initiate and deploy basic networks services in a serial fashion. Complex services are initiated and deployed in real-time with instantaneous feedback as to the status of each deployed service. OverDrive's unique policy driven approach to service automation significantly reduces the chances of introducing errors from manual mistakes into production network environments.

Reduced Customer Churn:

Customers that have outsourced their network environments to a service provider running OverDrive, have over time, created and defined many policies that control the behavior of their underlying communications infrastructure. The cost of having to replicate this same control and management using another tool or provider will simply outweigh any incentives. Service providers using OverDrive have documented dramatic increases in customer retention through the use of OverDrive policies tailored specifically to the customer.

Compliance:

OverDrive's ability to control and manage network infrastructure services through persisted policies affords the MSP and 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

New Revenue Generation:

Using OverDrive, service providers can define and deploy new feature rich services that deliver true value to an enterprise and separate the service provider from the competition. These services are defined as policies and tailored to the needs of the enterprise. Services such as full support and reporting for compliance, business continuity services, virtualization services and services on demand are all available through easy to define policies.

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. These challenges are now combined with the IT organizations ongoing struggles to meet the demands of a highly competitive business environment that is continually adopting new business strategies and processes. It is no surprise IT managers are searching for the ‘silver bullet’ that will enable them to manage the growing network cost and complexity without slowing down the rate of business innovation and technology adoption.

This search for a viable solution is fueling an explosive demand for managed network services. IT departments – especially those struggling to reduce traditional in-house IT support costs and still provide robust communications solutions – are capitalizing on the opportunity to outsource their network operations for managed solutions that can be adjusted and tuned under the more predictable guarantees of a services contract.

As a direct result of this explosion, a significant number of telecommunication service providers, traditional systems integrators and new startups are defining new and innovative ways to effectively deliver managed services to this expanding market. Unfortunately, a large number of these companies are struggling to balance the delivery of services that meet or exceed the expectations of the enterprise customer while continuing to generate the necessary operating margins to the provider.

The same operational challenges and inefficiencies faced by the enterprise, that prompt the desire to outsource, now plague the managed service provider (MSP) who has to deal with the added scale of supporting multiple enterprise networks. These MSPs are finding that the effective control and management of enterprise networks is more challenging than ever before and will probably continue to become more problematic given the regulatory oversight and the increased rate of business model and process change in today’s networked companies.

In many ways this struggle is further compounded by enterprises that, in addition to traditional managed network services, are demanding new feature-rich services such as automated documentation tools that support compliance regulations such as SOX/HIPAA, and process management tools that enable the dynamic alignment of infrastructure services to defined business policies.

Even the traditional service providers that have historically invested millions of dollars into fully integrated, back office support architectures are experiencing operational problems – directly impacting operating margins – delivering services and support to the enterprise market when those services extend beyond the traditional ‘provider-edge’. Help desks and network operations centers are overburdened with the number of infrastructure changes and administrative tasks required to support the customer base.

No one denies a tremendous opportunity exists for delivering managed services to the enterprise, and with that opportunity, the potential to generate considerable operating margins. However, for any company (service provider, systems integrator or startup) looking to effectively achieve these margins the most critical requirement are tools and technologies capable of automating the very technical, costly and complex manual tasks necessary to support the delivery of services to enterprise customers.

It is only through powerful control and automation that the desired operating and revenue margins will become achievable when dealing with enterprise network management on the scales of today’s MSP. It is this need to maximize and grow operating efficiencies - and margins - that OverDrive for the Service Provider™ has been specifically designed to fill.

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