The U.S. Army's Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) provides surface deployment and distribution services around the globe, sustaining more than 90 percent of Department of Defense equipment and supplies by leveraging the capability of commercial industry and other military services.

When IT recently completed a move from Virginia to the current location at Scott AFB, its tape backup systems could no longer cope with the load. As a result, the team reoriented its backup strategy around Quantum's DXi7500 disk-based deduplication and replication solution while relying on a Quantum Scalar i500 tape library for long-term retention and archive.

The DXi7500 was recommended more highly than competitive offerings, and it contained everything desired in a backup solution.