Solutions

How to store data efficiently and effectively remains an issue critical to the success of any organisation. With a range of technologies available today to safely store your data, designing the right system can be a difficult task.

DTS’s experience in designing storage solutions for customers of all sizes helps businesses choose the right technology for their environment. Whether it’s a fibre channel or iSCSI SAN, DAS or NAS, DTS chooses products from today’s leading storage vendors to design the right system for our customers.

A successful storage solution must have the ability to be easily managed and securely protect the data it holds. DTS has highly trained staff to help answer questions of:

• How can the business protect itself from data loss?
• How can the business restore data to meet its recovery point objectives?
• What impact does downtime have on the business?
• How can the business easily access its data when needed?
• How does the business most efficiently utilise its storage resources?

DTS engineers design, implement and support data management & protection solutions to meet our customers’ business objectives.

By choosing from a variety of technology including high performance disk, nearline storage, tape archival and backup software, DTS provides solutions to meet the industry’s best practice.

DTS has extensive experience in the deployment of storage systems used in our customers’ security and CCTV environments.

To get the best performance and data protection out of CCTV storage environments, DTS’s experienced staff help our partners design & configure the right mix of technology to suit environments of all types.

The goal of all network infrastructures is to deliver applications effectively to users but maintaining an acceptable level of application performance across the WAN proves a consistent challenge. Improving application performance through WAN optimization has become paramount. To meet this requirement, IT needs to address bandwidth, latency, and application contention issues that have slowed application performance for decades.

DTS is able to help deliver a complete family of application acceleration platforms designed to improve application response times within central sites, to branch offices, and for remote users.

More and more customers are moving to disk-based backup strategies for reasons including faster backup & restore, reduced human error from tape handling, lack of media errors and high reliability. Overland's REO disk-based backup appliance is a powerful SATA-based backup appliance designed for smooth integration into existing backup environments.

How does it work?
Simply put, a backup server writes data to the REO instead of straight to tape, and gains the full speed benefits of writing data to disk using the block level iSCSI protocol.  REO’s onboard ProtectionOS software includes virtual tape emulation, so the device can present as tape instead of disk. Tape is the most natural and hassle free interface for backup software to write to. This feature eliminates the need to purchase additional backup software agents to handle writing data to general purpose disk. In addition, REO’s unique dynamic virtual tape will automatically expand and contract virtual tapes as needed without the need for user input for maximum efficiency of hard disk space.

Data on the REO can be restored in a fraction of a second before eventual migration to physical tape through a simple tape copy command. The following diagram illustrates this process:

REOs can even replicate data between sites over a WAN using simple addon MultiSitePAC software, saving your customers from physically shipping tape media between sites. There are many well known cases of large companies losing valuable data en route stored on tapes….