“With our scalable, reliable and flexible NEO/REO platform, we have set the standard for backup and recovery excellence. We have complete confidence that our most vital data is safe and sound.”
- Josh Ursenbach, Manager, Systems Engineering, SkyWest Inc.
The Challenge: As the volume of data on the airline’s file servers increased, performance diminished on its legacy AIT tape loader. After running 12-to-18 hours daily for four years, reliability waned considerably. Additionally, the time and impact on other systems became problematic. At the time, network bandwidth limitations hindered the process, which took about three days for a full monthly backup of 45 servers. Often, critical data changed while backups were in process, which meant most current files weren’t protected properly…
The Solution: In seeking an affordable system that could grow to meet SkyWest’s increasing data backup and recovery requirements, Ursenbach consulted Scott Cooper, national Sales Manager at I/O Dynamics, who suggested the NEO tape library family from Overland Storage. The library’s modular design and expansion-ondemand capabilities seemed ideal for SkyWest’s needs while providing flexibility to increase capacity as needed. Each NEO 2000 module in the expandable chassis supports up to 30 LTO cartridge slots and up to two tape drives, providing up to 24 TBs of storage. “We liked how easily NEO interfaced with Fibre Channel, SCSI and iSCSI environments for complete configuration flexibility,” said Ursenbach…
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