Surfwear maker O'Neill Europe has contracted storage firm Data Domain to provide data backup services at five sites across Europe.

The deal has enabled O'Neill to protect more than 57 terabytes of information using three terabytes of the Data Domain system. In the past the surfing equipment brand was reliant up on a time-consuming tape system for backing up important information.

“By achieving a compression rate of 18x, we can now store and backup more data with less hardware," said Peter Maljaars, global IT service and infrastructure manager at O’Neill Europe.

"We can also instantaneously verify that our data is available for quick restores. We know we have plenty of room to scale our systems as our data grows, and we will eventually have a unified, fully automated data protection process across our offices.”

The sports company has now extended its onsite backup data retention time to a full year.