Cleveland Indians Hit a Data Protection Home Run With Overland's REO Disk-Based and NEO Tape-Based Appliances for Best Practices
16 April 2007 - 10:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
Tech-Savvy Baseball Team Now Backs Up Two-Thirds More Video and
Operational Data in Half the Time While Lowering Overhead and
Scaling to Meet Expanding Storage Demands SAN DIEGO, Storage
Networking World, Booth #G16, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Overland Storage, Inc. (NASDAQ:OVRL), a leading provider of data
protection solutions, today announced that the Cleveland Indians
baseball team has deployed a game-winning combination of the
company's REO(R) 9000 disk-based backup, recovery and VTL appliance
along with the NEO(R) 4000 tape library to safeguard vital on-field
video as well as crucial front- and back-office operational data.
The Cleveland Indians have earned a reputation as one of the most
technically advanced teams in Major League Baseball. The team was
among the first to develop a sophisticated in-house video
application to capture every at-bat during home games for training
and advanced scouting. The system, which is accessible through a
simple, touch-screen monitor, enables players, coaches and scouts
to easily locate and view different images. The new video system
caused an exponential jump in storage requirements and quickly
overtaxed the team's existing data protection foundation. According
to Whitney Kuszmaul, network manager for the Cleveland Indians,
"hit or miss" backups required excessive handholding while concern
about keeping up with escalating storage demands intensified. To
ensure greater availability of data storage that had surged to 9
TBs and was growing by at least 1 TB each year, the Indians sought
the assistance of Chi Corp., a Cleveland-based networking storage
specialist, to replace a 20-tape Dell library with Overland's
complementary disk- and tape-based backup and recovery solutions.
The team has created two disk LUNs on the REO 9000 for multiple
streaming of business-critical backup data, which then is retained
online for 21 days. This data, along with monthly full and weekly
video backups, is archived on the NEO 4000 for 60 days before
offloading for long-term retention. "Our Overland REO/NEO
combination has enabled the Cleveland Indians to backup two-thirds
more data in half the time while reducing our daily administrative
overhead from 45 minutes to nearly nothing," explains Kuszmaul. "In
the past, restoring a video clip could take up to 75 minutes but
now it's nearly instantaneous." Initially populated with 3 TBs, the
REO is being expanded to 9 TBs with room to grow to 44 TBs of raw
capacity. Meanwhile, the Indians are expanding their NEO library to
safeguard online video for every game from all 32 major league
teams -- totaling some 2,600 games for the 2007 season. The Indians
also are testing Overland's new high-capacity, cost-effective
ARCvault 48 tape library to protect video at a state-of-the-art
spring training facility currently under construction in Arizona.
Additionally, the team is evaluating Overland's ULTAMUS RAID
storage array for holding up to five years of online video for
expedited access. Plans also are underway to increase the team's
SAN storage to accommodate up to 21 TBs through the 2008 baseball
season. With a substantial amount of video now readily accessible,
the Cleveland Indians can easily integrate valuable batting and
pitching performance data into training regimens. Meanwhile, scouts
no longer have to travel extensively to follow a particular
player's progress. "Overland's highly flexible and scalable REO and
NEO have produced big savings right out of the box by enabling
players, coaches and scouts to easily find the data they need to
enhance their jobs," says John Thome, Jr., vice president of Chi
Corp. "The Indians have already determined their next data
protection purchase will be an Overland product." In addition to
helping the Indians take their game to the next level, Overland
provides a "future proof" solution that can meet their
ever-increasing backup and recovery requirements. "The Cleveland
Indians' REO/NEO implementation is an excellent example of
Overland's expansion-on-demand capabilities, which can easily
accommodate their projected addition of 2 TBs in video backup alone
each year," says Michael Kerman, vice president and chief strategy
officer for Overland Storage. "With our highly flexible and
scalable solutions, the Indians can continue to embrace the latest
video and other technologies without worrying about protecting
massive amounts of storage." About Overland Storage Now in its 26th
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(TM) RAID SERIES of
affordable, high-capacity storage; REO SERIES(R) of disk-based
backup, recovery and VTL appliances; and the NEO SERIES(R) and
ARCvault(TM) SERIES 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/. Except for
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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,"
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"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 risks and
uncertainties associated with the company's acquisition of Zetta
Systems, Inc., including possible integration difficulties and
successful execution of the business plan related to the
acquisition; possible delays in new product introductions and
shipments by the company including the new ULTAMUS and ARCvault
lines, including versions subject to the company's new OEM
contracts; possible delays in enhancements to the company's REO
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timing and market acceptance of new product introductions by
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inefficiencies and production problems that may result from the
transition of manufacturing to Sanmina-SCI; worldwide information
technology spending levels; unexpected shortages of critical
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general competition and price pressures in the marketplace; the
company's ability to control costs and expenses; and general
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