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Collegis Slashes Backup and Recovery by 40 Percent with
Overland's High-Performance REO Disk-Based Appliance
Leading-edge Backup Solution Protects Critical Courseware for Colleges and
Universities Nationwide
SAN DIEGO, June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc.
(NASDAQ:OVRL), the leading provider of backup and recovery solutions, today
announced that Collegis, an operating unit of SunGard, has deployed five
REO(TM) disk-based backup and recovery systems to optimize its backup and
recovery of critical courseware for colleges and universities nationwide.
Overland's REO 4000 plays a pivotal role in safeguarding more than 33,000
courses that comprise the company's course management systems.
Collegis offers a host of academic, administrative and technology-related
solutions to improve the delivery of education, and increase student
recruitment and retention while growing revenues and reducing costs. "The REO
4000 reinforces our commitment to ensuring the highest levels of service
quality and consistency," said John Tran, IT manager for Collegis. "As a key
component in our overall business continuity strategy, the cost-effective REO
system provides near-instantaneous restores and significantly shorter backup
windows with unprecedented speed, flexibility and reliability."
The REO 4000 complements Collegis' existing tape library system while reducing
backup and restore windows considerably. Previously, slow tape backups and
cumbersome restores were further complicated by the fact that the library held
only 30 days of data. The process of retrieving offsite tapes and restoring
data outside of the rolling 30-day window took four to eight hours, which
became unacceptable for ensuring the recovery of course materials that might be
needed in time for a class. Now, Collegis completes backups and restores up to
40 percent faster by performing disk-to-disk backups first and then offloading
the data to tape without impacting network performance. Overall efficiency
improvements and storing more data on disk make it easy to maintain up to 120
days of records in its onsite tape library.
For Collegis, backup and recovery operations now can be handled by one
individual in comparison to the previous method, which required three people to
support. Also, the REO 4000 integrates seamlessly with the company's backup
software packages, while enabling them to reduce from three software packages
to two. "With the REO 4000 in place, we can leverage our existing technology
investments in software, extend the life of our tape library, as well as lower
administrative requirements," added Tran. "Simply put, the REO 4000 has
completely transformed our backup and recovery operations."
According to Robert Scroop, vice president and general manager, Storage
Resource Business Unit, Overland Storage, the REO 4000 is an ideal disk-to-disk
system that also lets Collegis better utilize its tape library for a complete
disk-to-disk-to-tape solution. "The REO 4000 helps Collegis achieve the
instant data recovery advantages of disk backup as well as the long-term
archival benefits of tape," he said. "Additionally, the appliance can operate
as either disk or virtual tape to simplify integration with existing backup and
recovery software, while easing daily management of backup procedures."
Introduced in April 2004, the REO 4000 is Overland's next-generation disk-based
backup and recovery product that supports data transfer rates of up to 300 GB
per hour, performing significantly faster than many other disk-based products.
The easy-to-install, preconfigured system incorporates high-capacity, serial
ATA disks, specialized software, both iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity and
RAID 5 capabilities. When integrated with tape automation, such as Overland's
NEO Series(R) of tape libraries, REO provides a comprehensive
disk-to-disk-to-tape solution.
The REO 4000 is available through select Overland partners. For more
information, please visit http://www.overlandstorage.com/.
About Overland Storage
For more than 20 years, Overland Storage has delivered world-class data
protection solutions designed to ensure business continuity. Focused on backup
and recovery, Overland's data protection solutions are designed for
midrange-computer environments. These include NEO SERIES, the award-winning
automated storage libraries that set the standard for intelligent, automated
and scalable storage, and REO, the family of high-performance disk-based backup
appliances. Overland sells its products worldwide through leading OEMs,
commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers. For
more information, visit Overland's website at http://www.overlandstorage.com/.
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or its licensees, including the launch of the company's new REO and NEO 8000
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