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Acquisition to enable the extension of business continuity and data recovery service offerings for both companies.

Data Storage Corporation, a provider of diverse electronic data storage and protection solutions, has announced the acquisition of SafeData, a technology company focused on helping companies protect their data, minimize downtime, and recover and restore data quickly.

By acquiring SafeData, Data Storage Corp. (DSC) expands its current solutions which include: data backup and recovery, digital archiving, virtual hosting, and standby data recovery, e-discovery, email archiving and hosted exchange to the IBM iSeries market leveraging SafeData's high availability, data recovery, and telecom recovery solutions.

SafeData will operate as a division of Data Storage Corp., remaining in Warwick, R.I. and continuing to serve its existing clients with its SafeData/HA, SafeData/DR and SafeData/TR products. Peter Briggs will continue as president of the SafeData unit and will hold the position of executive vice president with Data Storage Corp., the companies said. Larry Putterman, chairman of SafeData will serve on the Data Storage Corp. board of directors.

"We plan to grow our organization organically and through strategic acquisitions," explained Chuck Piluso, chairman and CEO of Data Storage Corp. "With SafeData's penetration in the IBM iSeries market and its extensive client base, it was a logical addition. As part of the acquisition, we extended our service offerings, and gained the expertise of an excellent team of talented data storage and recovery professionals."

"This is an exciting time for SafeData, our employees, and our customers," said Briggs. "DSC brings us a platform for scaling and growth, which will make it possible for us to extend our market presence across the country and will provide greater breadth and depth to our data storage and recovery services for our clients. As a unit of DSC, we will now have additional resources to help take SafeData to the next level," he said.

About SafeData

SafeData is a technology company focused on helping businesses protect their data, minimize downtime, and recover and restore data quickly. SafeData delivers affordable subscription-based backup and data recovery services to businesses of all sizes and types, including high availability, electronic vaulting, virtualized recovery, and telecom recovery services. SafeData's approach to backup and disaster recovery supports businesses with unique Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), using best-in-class technologies that are cost effective and reliable. Founded in 2005, SafeData is headquartered in Warwick, R.I. For more information on SafeData, visit www.safedata.net.

About Data Storage Corporation (OTCBB:DTST),

DSC delivers and supports through its various divisions a broad range of premium solutions focusing in electronic data storage and protection. Clients look to DSC to ensure disaster recovery and business continuity, strengthen security and to meet increasing industry, state and federal regulations. The company markets to business, government, education, and the healthcare industry by leveraging leading technologies such as Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Electronic Medical Records (EMR). The company provides hardware, Software-as-a-Service, managed IT services, installation, and maintenance.

Additional information about Data Storage Corp. is available on the company site: http://www.dscorp.net.

Data Storage Corp. (PINKSHEETS (DTST) provides cloud storage and cloud computing focused on data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions that assist organizations in protecting their data, minimizing downtime, ensuring regulatory compliance, and recovery and restoration of data quickly. DSC's clients save time and money, gain more control, and have better access to data and enable the highest level of security for that data. The company's solutions include: data backup and storage, replication; high availability data replication services; email archive and compliance solutions for e-discovery; continuous data protection; data de-duplication; virtualized system recovery; and telecom recovery services. With headquarters in Garden City, NY, 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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