Hunt Petroleum Cuts Backup and Restore Time Over 50 Percent With REO/NEO Solution
01 June 2005 - 10:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
Hunt Petroleum Cuts Backup and Restore Time Over 50 Percent With
REO/NEO Solution Versatile REO 4000 Backup and Recovery Appliance
With NEO 2000 Tape Library Exceed Expectations of Leading Oil &
Gas Company SAN DIEGO, June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland
Storage, Inc. (NASDAQ:OVRL), the leading provider of backup and
recovery solutions, today announced that Hunt Petroleum
Corporation, a pioneer in the oil and gas industry, has implemented
its REO 4000(TM) backup and recovery appliance in conjunction with
its NEO 2000(TM) tape library to strengthen the organization's
information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies. To that end,
Overland's highly flexible REO and NEO play a pivotal role in
protecting crucial geophysical data, while streamlining storage
costs and improving management efficiencies. Hunt Petroleum, a
well-known domestic exploration and production company dating back
almost 50 years, has a strong presence throughout Texas, Louisiana,
North Dakota and the Gulf of Mexico. The company deploys leading-
edge technology, including a number of industry-specific
applications, to meet the highly specialized requirements of its
geologists and geophysicists, who use sophisticated,
storage-intensive modeling and imaging applications. Rapid business
growth caused Hunt Petroleum's critical data to rise by more than
30 percent annually, which strained existing storage resources
while compromising backup and recovery procedures. Hunt Petroleum
set out to align its storage infrastructure with the company's
burgeoning business. "We were running out of disk space on our
primary storage array, while backup and recovery operations took
far too long," recalls Darrin Edgerton, a network administrator for
Hunt Petroleum. In seeking a more effective and economical method
to manage storage growth, Hunt Petroleum first looked at Overland's
NEO tape library as a replacement for an older Overland tape
autoloader. The reliability of the initial Overland system along
with the company's strong service and support record prompted Hunt
Petroleum to upgrade to a modular Overland NEO 2000. Next, the IT
team evaluated Overland's REO backup and recovery appliance, which
offered disk-to-disk backup and recovery functionality similar to
enterprise systems costing twice as much. Together, the versatile
REO and scalable NEO provided affordable storage with greatly
improved backup and recovery. "Overland's REO and NEO give us the
flexibility to grow our Windows, Linux and Unix tier-two storage
on-the-fly, while reducing our backup and recovery window by more
than 60 percent," says Edgerton. Dallas Digital Services, a
Texas-based Overland Storage value-added reseller, facilitated the
sale. Prior to its REO/NEO implementation, Hunt Petroleum's IT team
spent more than two days conducting full backups to tape, a process
that encroached into prime-time production hours. Now, a full
disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup is completed in about eight
hours. Meanwhile, data files can now be restored almost
instantaneously, streamlined by Overland's compatibility with Hunt
Petroleum's Legato backup and recovery software. With three REOs in
place currently and more planned for the future, Hunt Petroleum
achieves disk-speed data recovery while better leveraging its
existing investment in an expensive Fibre Channel storage area
network (SAN). "We plan to offload tier-two storage onto the REO so
that we can maximize storage utilization on the Fibre Channel SAN,
which saves us time and money," explains Edgerton. "In a very short
period of time, Overland's REO/NEO solution has exceeded all our
expectations. We are exploring new ways to use these systems to
further simplify disaster recovery and ensure business
continuance." "Compatibility across platforms was very important to
us, since we have a mixed environment with Windows and UNIX-based
storage on SAN and direct- attached systems," commented Kent
Jackson, network supervisor, Hunt Petroleum. "Standardizing on the
REO/NEO solution has allowed us to refocus on projects that add
value and function with the assurance that our line of business
data is protected." Overland's REO and NEO are an ideal solution to
boost corporate ILM strategies by enabling companies to maintain
economical information storage while ensuring optimum levels of
availability. "Increasing numbers of organizations such as Hunt
Petroleum are fortifying their ILM plans and safeguarding critical
data with our powerful yet affordable D2D2T solutions," said John
Matze, vice president and chief technology officer, Overland
Storage. "Our products support high-end features typically reserved
for much more expensive enterprise systems. This eases the burden
of keeping up with rapid data growth, implementing full disaster
recovery plans and complying with the latest regulatory rulings."
Introduced in April 2004, the REO 4000 incorporates high-capacity,
serial ATA disks, specialized management and virtualization
software, both iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity, and RAID 5
capabilities. The NEO 2000 minimizes costly downtime and keeps pace
with rapidly expanding requirements with each module supporting up
to 26 SDLT or 30 LTO cartridge slots and up to two tape drives,
providing up to 15.6 TB of capacity. When integrated, the REO and
NEO series offer one of the most comprehensive yet cost-effective
D2D2T solutions on the market. The REO 4000 and NEO 2000 are
available through Overland Storage partners worldwide. For more
information, please visit http://www.overlandstorage.com/. About
Overland Storage For nearly 25 years, Overland Storage has
delivered world-class data protection solutions designed to ensure
business continuity. Focused on backup and recovery, Overland's
award-winning data protection solutions include the REO SERIES(TM)
of disk-based backup and recovery appliances and the NEO SERIES(TM)
of tape libraries. Overland Storage sells its products worldwide
through leading OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators
and value-added resellers. For more information, visit Overland's
web site at http://www.overlandstorage.com/. Except for the factual
statements made herein, the information contained in this news
release consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks,
uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Words
and expressions reflecting optimism and satisfaction with current
prospects, as well as words such as "believe," "intends,"
"expects," "plans," "anticipates" and variations thereof, identify
forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that a
statement is not forward looking. Such forward-looking statements
are not guarantees of performance and the company's actual results
could differ materially from those contained in such statements.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include
delays, unbudgeted expenses, inefficiencies and production problems
that may result from the transition of manufacturing to
Sanmina-SCI; difficulty of predicting sales to the company's major
OEM customer; worldwide information technology spending levels;
unexpected shortages of critical components; rescheduling or
cancellation of customer orders; loss of a major customer; the
market acceptance of the company's REO product line; delays in new
product introductions by the company, including the company's new
software PACs and REO operating system; the timing and market
acceptance of new product introductions by competitors; the timing
and amount of licensing royalties; general competition and price
pressures in the marketplace; the company's ability to control
costs and expenses; and general economic conditions. Reference is
also made to other factors set forth in the company's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the "Risk
Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis" and other sections
of the company's Form 10-K for the most recently completed fiscal
year. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of
this release and the company undertakes no obligation to publicly
update any forward-looking statements to reflect new information,
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