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Overland Storage Unveils All-in-One Deduplicating VTL Appliance
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Overland Storage has debuted the REO 9500D deduplicating VTL appliance
that extends the company's tiered data protection strategy by adding
data deduplication for easier access, faster restores and longer-term,
near-line retention of backup data.
The new REO 9500D leverages Overland's REO SERIES disk-based VTL
platform and enterprise-class deduplicating software powered by
Diligent Technologies to retain typically up to 25 times more data on
disk.
The combination of Overland's REO disk-based VTL and Diligent's
ProtecTIER deduplicating solution provides an all-in-one appliance that
can be integrated seamlessly into existing backup environments. Ideally
suited for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and distributed
organizations, the REO 9500D includes an easy-to-use configuration
wizard to streamline deployments in less than an hour, without
requiring any modifications to application or backup servers.
According to Vern LoForti, president and CEO of Overland Storage, the
REO 9500D is the latest milestone in the company's tiered data
protection strategy, which focuses on helping customers determine the
most appropriate combination of disk- and tape-based appliances to
solve their data protection problems, depending on performance
requirements, business continuity objectives and desired cost per
terabyte. "Our goal is to offer our customers the broadest and most
capable portfolio of data protection appliances available from any
single company," he says. We understand that one size does not fit all,
so Overland offers customizable solutions that solve specific problems
based on defined criteria. The new REO 9500D adds yet another level of
protection for customers seeking simplified, affordable long-term data
retention on disk. We have a full roadmap of products to further our
overarching goal of adding best-of-class data protection tools that
reduce backup windows, improve recovery speeds and simplify both short-
and long-term data retention requirements."
For Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), an influx of publishing and
activity-related data caused storage to surge by 50 percent to 5 TBs
over the past year. The increase overtaxed the organization's existing
tape-based data protection system, which led to an evaluation of
disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) solutions and ultimate deployment of
Overland's REO 9000 D2D VTL appliance and NEO 2000 tape library to
boost backup and recovery reliability while also reducing backup
windows and accelerating restores.
Additionally, GSUSA wanted to increase its storage capacity by adding
deduplication to lower the cost of backing up redundant data, primarily
similar system information for 100 Microsoft Windows 2003 file servers,
a mission-critical SQL database that contains four years of historical
and one year of current membership data as well as an ever-growing data
warehouse.
According to Bob O'Connor, CTO for Girl Scouts of the USA, Overland's
REO 9500D can lower cost and implementation barriers by providing an
integrated, tiered backup solution. "Overland's REO 9500D blends a
powerful VTL with additional intelligence for identifying and reducing
redundant data," he says. "The single-appliance approach is greatly
appreciated as it alleviates the time and effort required by our sole
backup administrator. Moreover, Overland's data deduplicating VTL
integrates with our existing D2D2T solutions to accommodate all our
data protection tiers. We expect to achieve faster backups and restores
on the REO 9000, a much longer window of disk-based data retention on
the REO 9500D and highly reliable, data archival on the NEO 2000."
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