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Overland Storage, the leading provider of backup and recovery solutions, and its extensive network of channel partners, report increased adoption of disk-based backup and recovery appliances. The company's robust, award-winning REO SERIES family of appliances, which Overland sells exclusively through channel partners, leads the industry's iSCSI-enabled, high performance, reliable backup and disaster recovery market. According to a recent report by research firm Meta Group, at least 60 percent of IT storage management time is spent on backup and recovery tasks. As such, end users are fast realizing the benefits of disk for shrinking backup windows and delivering near instantaneous restores of data. A disk-based appliance can be used as a stand-alone unit or deployed in conjunction with tape, where it becomes the cornerstone for a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) archival strategy. "More than 50 percent of our customers are considering disk-based solutions today, as compared to about 10 percent a year ago. These customers are interested in disk-based solutions for two key reasons -- to reap the benefits of near-instantaneous data recovery, and to improve the overall reliability of their backup process," said Dave Holloway, chief operating officer, West Coast Technology, an Overland VAR. "Overland's REO family gives us a range of affordable, easy-to-use and highly intelligent appliances that enable us to scale solutions from small and medium businesses all the way to the enterprise." "As the demand for disk-based backup and recovery continues to grow, our channel has embraced the REO SERIES as an easy-to-sell, easy-to-use solution," said Christie Huff, vice president of marketing, Overland Storage. "In fact, nearly 80 percent of our partners' registered sales opportunities include REOs, and we expect that number to continue to rise." According to a recent Taneja Group survey, 76 percent of storage managers indicated that they will utilize both tape and disk in the next year. When integrated with tape automation, such as Overland's NEO SERIES of tape libraries, the REO SERIES allows users to achieve the near-instant data recovery of disk and long-term archival benefits of tape, for a complete D2D2T solution. "Overland Storage is clearly leading the way in tape and D2D products today with their innovative concepts for backup and recovery," said Howie Evans, vice president, Dallas Digital Services, an Overland VAR. "Having the ability to provide our customers with a bundled solution for tape and D2D from a single vendor is just what we have been waiting for. Whether it is Fibre Channel or iSCSI, the REO fits virtually any environment and is extremely cost-effective."