The REO 1500 Disk-Based Backup and Recovery Appliance solves the challenges that IT professionals face exponential data growth, shrinking backup windows, the need for fast data recovery, new government regulations by providing fast, reliable data backup and recovery while reducing operating costs. The REO 1500 delivers reliable unattended backups and near-instantaneous file recovery in an easy to use, versatile appliance. Easily configured as a virtual tape library, standalone virtual tape drives, and/or disk volumes (LUNs), the REO 1500 can be easily deployed and modified to adapt to changing data protection requirements.