Overland Wins a Compelling Case to Improve Law-Firm Disaster Recovery With REO VTL Disk-Based Backup and NEO Tape Library
27 September 2006 - 10:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
Leading Law Firm Consolidates Data Protection to Boost Business
Continuity While Saving Thousands of Dollars by Eliminating Remote
Backup Systems SAN DIEGO, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Overland Storage Inc. (NASDAQ:OVRL) today announced that Kaufman
and Canoles, one of the top-five corporate law firms in Virginia,
has deployed its REO(R) 9000 and 4000 virtual tape library (VTL)
disk-based backup appliances and NEO(R) 2000 tape library to serve
as the data protection foundation of its newly strengthened
disaster recovery plan. Kaufman and Canoles, named to American
Lawyer Media's 2006 edition of The Directory of Go-To Law Firms,
embraces leading-edge technologies to better serve its clients. An
early migration to VoIP, for example, led to highly efficient
client communications yet caused sudden storage surges. Storage
demands outpaced the capacity of existing DAT-based solutions at
remote offices, causing backup and recovery reliability problems.
Additionally, Kaufman and Canoles outgrew an older Exabyte tape
library used to archive crucial data at its Norfolk headquarters.
According to James McKane, information systems manager for Kaufman
and Canoles, the growing need for more robust, resilient data
protection was reinforced by a close call with Hurricane Isabel,
the only Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane
season. After the firm lost power at one of its local offices for
two days, putting critical data at risk, McKane focused on
bolstering disaster recovery by consolidating remote backups while
also increasing tape-based archival capacity. In upgrading its data
protection foundation, Kaufman and Canoles first replaced its
Exabyte tape library with an expandable, mid-range Overland NEO
2000 tape library. Next, the firm evaluated both disk- and
tape-based solutions to handle online backups of remote data,
including Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems as well as
disk-based storage appliances from EMC, Quantum and Overland. A
deciding factor in deploying Overland's REO 4000 and 9000 was the
versatility to configure the systems as virtual tape libraries
(VTLs), dynamic virtual tape drives and/or disk volumes. "Overland
delivered the best overall value in terms of capacity, price and
the flexibility to meet our ever-changing daily, weekly and monthly
backup and recovery requirements," says McKane. "The ability to set
up VTLs as well as disk volumes clinched the deal." As a result,
Kaufman and Canoles replicates all remote data real-time onto disk
volumes established on a REO 4000 before backing up both the
replicated and corporate data onto VTLs set up on a REO 9000. The
Overland 2000 tape library then archives all backups for long-term
safekeeping. For heightened disaster recovery, Kaufman and Canoles
installed an additional REO 4000 and Overland tape autoloader in
Richmond, where all data backups now are replicated. Plans are
underway to relocate this disaster recovery site to a co-location
facility for the highest levels of data protection Overall, Kaufman
and Canoles has realized significant data backup and recovery gains
from its REO/NEO disk-to-disk-to-tape combination. The firm's
backup window has been reduced from eight to two hours while data
restores have decreased from two days to five minutes. Instead of
investing several hours each week to oversee remote backups, the
firm's IT team now spends less than 30 minutes to check a backup
server. Additionally, Kaufman and Canoles has saved thousands of
dollars by eliminating all tape drives and tapes at its remote
sites. "Increasingly, small- to mid-sized organizations are looking
for a new level of performance, including faster, simultaneous
backups, near-instantaneous restores and unprecedented
configuration flexibility," says Michael Kerman, vice president and
chief strategy officer of Overland Storage. "Our REO/NEO
implementation at Kaufman and Canoles reinforces the merits of
disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection while showcasing the
versatility of our products for complete disaster recovery." About
Overland Storage Now in its 25th year, Overland Storage is a market
leader and innovative provider of simply protected storage
solutions -- smart data protection appliances and software modules
designed to work together, affordably, to ensure that information
is automatically safe, readily available and always there.
Overland's award-winning data protection solutions include the
ULTAMUS SERIES(TM) of protected primary storage appliances; the REO
SERIES(R) of disk-based backup, recovery and VTL appliances; and
the NEO SERIES(R) and ARCvault(TM) tape automation solutions.
Overland sells its products through leading OEMs, commercial
distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers. For
more information, visit Overland's web site at
http://www.overlandstorage.com/. DATASOURCE: Overland Storage Inc.
CONTACT: Melinda Hutcheon, PR Manager of Overland Storage,
+1-858-495-4187, ; or Sue Hetzel of HetzelMeade Communications,
+1-760-434-9927, , for Overland Web site:
http://www.overlandstorage.com/
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