Unprecedented Demand for Data Protection Services Drives Arsenal Digital to Record Business Growth

CARY, NC, - Arsenal Digital Solutions®, http://www.arsenaldigital.com/, the leader in on-demand data
protection, today announced that 2006 represented its sixth consecutive year of double-digit
revenue and customer growth, and proved the strongest year since establishing the company in
1998.
Underscoring global demand for its comprehensive managed data protection services, Arsenal
Digital http://www.arsenaldigital.com/ added eight more petabytes (PBs) of actively managed data storage in 2006. This
propelled the company’s active storage footprint to more than 20 PBs for the year –
approximately the equivalent of six million feature length movies or 300 million CDs converted to
MP3 at high fidelity.
Recognized in 2006 as an industry leader, Arsenal Digital delivers field-proven data protection
expertise, with financially-backed service level guarantees, and a veteran global service and
support team.
Supporting its solid performance in customer and revenue growth, Arsenal Digital launched major
new service offerings, scaled its business for growth in 2007, and positioned itself for the next
phase of its expansion in the data protection services market, which IDC estimates as a $16.8
billion market growing at 16 percent a year.
Arsenal Digital’s http://www.arsenaldigital.com/ highlights from 2006 include:
• Six consecutive years of double-digit revenue growth
• 432 percent year-over-year revenue growth for its award-winning ViaRemote® online
backup and recovery service
• A 206 percent increase in the total number of PC and server customer deployments
• 63 percent year over year growth in the active Arsenal data protected footprint, from 12 to
20+ PBs in the last year – across data center locations in 44 cities on five continents
• Debuting new online backup services for Small to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) and
consumers with the launches of Arsenal ViaRemote Business Edition and Arsenal PC
Vault™ for consumers, building out the industry’s most comprehensive “PC-to-data
center information protection” service
• Recognized by the North Carolina Technology Association as the Mid-Size Company of
the Year for its excellence in corporate leadership and technology innovation
“2006 was an outstanding year for Arsenal Digital customers, partners and our employees. We
experienced strong growth across all our data protection service offerings, leading to another
solid and profitable year in 2006 and we expect 2007 to continue the trend,” said Frank Brick,
chairman and CEO of Arsenal Digital Solutions. “Our customers are seeing data growth rates
over 50 percent year-over-year, which makes it increasingly hard to protect it effectively. Arsenal
Digital has set the standard for on-demand data protection services and we’re committed to
expanding upon our position as ‘partner of choice’ moving ahead.”
Arsenal Digital: Leading Today and Driving the Market
The rapid proliferation of data – in particular distributed data created or residing in branch/small
office locations with limited or no IT support – is breaking the traditional hardware/software
information protection model and fueling tremendous opportunity for on-demand data protection
services. SMBs alone are expected to spend a significant portion of what is estimated to reach
$404 billion in IT spending worldwide in 2007, on data protection, backup, archiving, disaster
recovery and advanced data retention services.
Arsenal Digital’s service model makes it easy for organizations of all sizes to avoid the
requirement for capital investment while optimizing in-house technical expertise dedicated to data
protection.
“Arsenal Digital has spent the last eight years investing significantly in service automation and
process excellence to deliver the highest levels of on-demand data protection, the strongest
service level guarantees and the most extensive support in the hands of thousands of companies
across five continents,” said Frank Brick. “We’ve done so with a patent-pending on demand
managed services platform that gives us the room to grow seamlessly and efficiently with our
customers and easily advance in new service directions.”
About Arsenal Digital Solutions
Arsenal Digital is the worldwide leader in on-demand data protection. The company manages a
global data footprint of over 20 petabytes of storage for its customers, and it is the data protection
partner of choice to many of the world’s top network service providers, OEMs and ISVs. Its
service model, which leverages Arsenal’s s3® architecture, makes it easy for customers to protect
their data and eliminate the need for significant IT investment in traditional software/hardware
models.
For more information on Arsenal, its services and solutions, visit http://www.arsenaldigital.com.
Arsenal Digital Solutions, ViaRemote and s3 are registered trademarks and PC Vault is a
trademark of Arsenal Digital Solutions USA, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks
mentioned herein are property of their respective owners.