Data Storage Corporation Announces SafeData Cloud

GARDEN CITY, NY--(Marketwire - May 16, 2011) - Data Storage Corporation (DSC), a provider of data protection and business continuity solutions, today announced the addition of its SafeData Cloud solution. This new service offering provides clients with complete IT infrastructure outsourcing via a cloud computing model. Specifically designed for small and mid-sized companies that run applications on System i and Windows servers, SafeData Cloud is a low-cost and secure option to ensure an organization's data and applications are easily accessible at any time and from any location.

"With the increasing demand for cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and with a large investment already made in high availability and virtualized backup and recovery services, our SafeData Cloud solution is a natural extension of our managed services offering," said Matthew Grosso, EVP Technical Operations and Engineering at DSC. "Cloud computing is a logical option for organizations looking to improve data and systems accessibility, increase efficiency, enable scalability, ensure reliability and business continuity, and reduce infrastructure IT expenses. IaaS will continue to be a trend in the mid-market and we are well-positioned to fulfill the market demand."

DSC's SafeData Cloud offering is a subscription-based service to provide capacity on demand for clients with expanding or changing infrastructure demands. SafeData Cloud services include: scalable server and bandwidth capacity, carrier-class data center hosting, secured backup services, reliable disaster recovery, and 24/7 monitoring and management.

DSC has four data center facilities and more than 300 clients nationwide. Specializing in IBM iSeries and power systems high availability, data backup and recovery solutions, the DSC engineering team is certified at the highest levels to maintain mission-critical operating environments for organizations of all sizes and types.

About Data Storage Corporation
DSC provides professional services focused on data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions that help organizations protect their data, minimize downtime, ensure regulatory compliance and recover and restore data quickly. Through its four data centers and by leveraging leading technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing and cloud storage, DSC delivers and supports a broad range of premium solutions for both Windows and IBM power systems environments that help its clients save time and money, gain more control of and better access to data and enable the highest level of security for that data. The company's solutions include: offsite data backup, storage, replication, protection and recovery services; High Availability (HA) data replication services; email archive and compliance solutions for e-discovery; continuous data protection; data de-duplication; virtualized system recovery; and telecom recovery services. Headquartered in Garden City, N.Y., DSC offers its solutions and services to healthcare, banking and finance, distribution services, manufacturing, construction, education, and government industries. For more information on DSC, visit www.datastoragecorp.com.

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