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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,
events or circumstances after the date of this release.
Overland, Overland Storage, REO SERIES and NEO SERIES are trademarks or
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