Data Protection

Backup and Recovery

Market Challenges

Shrinking backup windows, soaring data growth, and increased compliance requirements have made backup/recovery an essential part of IT administration

The rapid increase in data has increased storage and infrastructure costs because that data must be backed up multiple times. Infrastructures are also becoming increasingly distributed which makes it difficult to ensure that backups are completed on time and that remote data remains safe and accessible at all times. In addition, it has put immense pressure on shrinking backup windows and tightening time to recovery (RTO) requirements because missed backup windows or failed backups place a company at increased risk for data loss or corruption. Failed data recoveries can cause significantly more damage because any inability to recover data can potentially lead to a fine or loss of revenue.

Most organizations can withstand the occasional failed backup or missed backup window, but few organizations have any tolerance for failed data recoveries. With increasingly complicated backup management and administration requirements, data backup and recovery can quickly become a disaster waiting to happen.

Overland Solutions

Optimized, customized backup/recovery that meets both requirements now and in the future

Overland Storage has developed a deep understanding of the issues related to backup and recovery and has developed complete backup/recovery solutions that:

• Solve backup windows
• Increase backup reliability and completeness
• Reduce the amount of backup data store
• Speed up recoveries
• Improve recovery reliability
• Eliminate much of the human errors around backup with easy to operate backup/recovery automation
• Enable IT administrators to manage, backup and access remote data from a central location
• Reduce backup administration costs with centralized management of the entire backup/recovery ecosystem.

Overland Storage knows backup/recovery and provides unique solutions that solve many of the complications related to backup/recovery.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Market Challenges

Deploying an effective business continuity and disaster recovery strategy requires deploying effective solutions that work within a company’s existing infrastructure.

Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) are essential elements to any organization’s data protection strategy.  To create effective business continuity and disaster recovery strategies, companies have to understand what is required both to recover from a wide variety of disasters and what is needed to keep the business operating even before recovery begins. In addition to deploying effective backup solutions, companies must utilize extensive planning, bi-annual (or minimally annual) testing of those plans and most of all organizational commitment from everyone is essential for success.

Overland Solutions

Overland Storage creates flexible, easy to manage systems combined with global support for expert planning and deployment of business continuity and disaster recovery strategies

Overland Storage has developed disaster recovery and business continuity solutions that range from simple low-cost disk backup to highly scalable tape backup and archiving to virtual disk to continuous data protection (CDP).

Effective business continuity and disaster recovery goes beyond a product or series of products and to that end Overland Storage provides tools, support, and experience to assist customers in developing and implementing a business continuity and disaster recovery plan. We understand that a business continuity and disaster recovery plan is only as good as the vendor that stands behind it, so we provides technical support, web-based user groups and an online knowledge center.

Archiving, Replication, and Vaulting

Market Challenges

Meeting regulatory, corporate, or e-discovery compliance requires cost effective, long term archival storage and the ability to replicate data reliably over distance (vaulting) to disaster recovery sites

Companies are faced with explosive data growth and a similar increase in cost as that data that must be archived and stored long term. Keeping data for long periods of time at a cost that fits within reduced IT budgets has proven to be extremely difficult. Data must be kept safe — and easily accessible for months, years, and even decades.

Data archiving is not backup/recovery, so it has a unique set of challenges including the implementation of dependable processes for archival data capture on an automated, scheduled basis. Without an automated process, the data is manually migrated “ad hoc,” typically failing to effectively capture all of the data required or desired—creating organizational liability. The processes that are most effective are part of an overall information lifecycle management strategy with scheduled end-of-life destruction in addition to secure, offsite storage with media designed to stand the test of time.

Overland Solutions

Unique mix of hardware, software, and technology that cost effectively meets difficult market requirements for long term data storage

Overland Storage has addressed the archiving, replication, and vaulting needs of businesses with economical tape based solutions that include simple tape autoloaders, tape libraries that are easy to expand and offer remote failover for increased data protection. Both types of tape solutions allow for the long term, archival preservation of massive amounts of data at the lowest possible cost.