The Californian surf brand O'Neill is looking to use deduplication storage systems for disk back-up and IT network-based disaster recovery.

It will help protect 57 terabytes of data across five sites based in Europe, aimed at reducing its reliance on tape back-up based systems.

Longer backup delays prompted the decision increase speed and reliability of data restore procedures, as the company looks to expand in Europe.

Peter Maljaars, O'Neill's Europe global IT service and infrastructure manager, said: "We needed a system that could solve our current backup issues and grow with us."

He added: "It became clear to us that our tape systems were rapidly running out of gas. We wanted to re-invent our data protection systems and take a more global approach."

The news follows research published by BT earlier in the month that claimed employees and businesses do not have adequate skills to deal with disaster recovery.