Data Storage Corporation Wins Asigra Partner of the Year Award and Best Public Cloud Implementation Award

GARDEN CITY, NY--(Marketwire - Jun 21, 2011) - Data Storage Corporation (DSC), a provider of data protection and business continuity solutions, today announced that it won the "Partner of the Year" and "Best Public Cloud Implementation" awards from Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986. The awards recognize DSC for its success in achieving outstanding customer satisfaction and innovative business practices in the deployment and application of Asigra's Cloud Backup platform.

Two of DSC's solutions, SafeData DR and SafeData Vault, are powered by the Asigra Cloud Backup platform. SafeData DR is a subscription-based data recovery solution for organizations with recovery time objectives of 10 hours or less; and SafeData Vault is a fully automated service providing a "point-in-time" snapshot of data across a network to a remote location.

DSC was honored with both awards at the 2011 Asigra Cloud Backup Partner Summit, June 6-8^th in Toronto. Titled OutMarket, OutSell, OutSmart, this year's summit was the only conference of its kind where hundreds of cloud backup service providers, MSPs and VARs from all over the world came together to hear the latest trends and technologies impacting cloud backup. The conference offered a range of strategies to help service providers take a leadership position in one of cloud computing's largest areas of opportunity -- cloud backup.

Asigra promotes its partners' expertise for new and innovative deployments of cloud backup and recovery, whether deployed to a public cloud, an internal private cloud or hybrid implementation. The Asigra Cloud Backup platform enables new efficiencies for protecting virtualized servers, large organizations with distributed offices and mobile workers, multi-location data center environments, while providing the flexibility to address consumers, small and medium businesses (SMBs) and the enterprise.

Asigra presented awards to visionary partners and customers in multiple categories based on technology and sales and marketing achievements. DSC was recognized for Partner of the Year for demonstrating business excellence in delivering Asigra solutions to customers and was honored with the Best Public Cloud Implementation for its cloud backup and recovery strategy for a global client in the track and transit systems construction and maintenance services, helping them cut costs and improve the quality of data protection.

"Asigra partners are core to the success of Asigra and Data Storage Corp. has shown exceptional innovation, execution and customer service in the deployment of business-class public cloud backup, confirming their status as an elite provider of this technology," said Asigra CEO David Farajun. "Data Storage Corp. has a proven approach in the delivery of end-to-end data protection across all corporate endpoints and we congratulate them on this win and recognition."

"Being named Asigra's Partner of the Year and also winning the Best Public Cloud Implementation award is quite an honor," said Matthew Grosso, EVP Technical Operations and Engineering at DSC and member of the Asigra Partner Advisory Council. "Asigra has been an exceptional partner providing us with numerous opportunities to grow our business and also collaborating on new technologies to meet the data backup and recovery needs of our clients. We look forward to continuing to expand our relationship with Asigra and build on the success we've already realized as a result of the partnership."

About Asigra
Asigra is the leading Canadian cloud computing vendor focused on backup, recovery and restoration with more than 400,000 customer sites deployed globally. Asigra Cloud Backup™ transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering seamless end-to-end data protection that efficiently scales and easily adapts to any IT environment. Asigra Cloud Backup is built for new and existing MSPs/VARs who focus on data protection, IT constrained organizations and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, reliable and predictable data protection cloud backup model. With more than 25 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra manages one of the largest business-class backup service provider ecosystems in the world who power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.

About Data Storage Corporation
DSC provides professional services focused on data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions that assist organizations in protecting their data, minimizing downtime, ensuring regulatory compliance and, recovering and restoring data within recovery point and recovery time objectives. Through its 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 assist clients in saving time and money, gaining more control of and better access to data and enabling the highest level of security for that data. The company's solutions include: protection and recovery services; High Availability (HA) data replication services; offsite data backup and recovery; storage solutions; 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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