PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release

Monday June 22nd, 2009 – Digistore Solutions International ("DSSI") has signed a global OEM Distribution Agreement to bundle the award winning EMC® Retrospect® Professional for Windows® software from EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) with DSSI’s Centurion DiscHub® Workgroup product.  

The Centurion DiscHub Workgroup is an innovative and easy to use hardware appliance, being an optical disc library for data storage, combined with software to deliver read/write network access to end users through a single drive letter with folders and files.  Targeting small to medium businesses, the Centurion DiscHub Workgroup Edition, together with EMC Retrospect Professional, enables SMBs to meet their archive and compliance needs in a way that is both easy to use and affordable.

"The SMB is facing more stringent compliance obligations every year, with legislation requiring them to retain a greater volume of data for much longer periods of time," said Geoff MacLeod-Smith, CEO of DSSI.  "By combining EMC Retrospect Professional with our Centurion DiscHub, the SMB can ensure that their data is captured, encrypted and stored on long-life compliant media (optical disc), and they retain access to their data at all times because it is in near-line storage.  The Workgroup software interfaces with Retrospect and ensures that backup occurs as a "Disc-to-Disc" operation, so there is no need for users to load and unload media individually or manage a poorly structured cupboard full of discs."

Today, business is confronted with an explosion in the growth of data. Companies find themselves now storing data that is directly relevant to their businesses – but that often contains personal user data.   With Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other legislation, data retention duties have in many cases shifted from as little as two years to six and seven years and in some cases, indefinitely. For example: The Ohio State University requires Curriculum Development Documentation, Board of Regents Reports and other information to be retained indefinitely.¹  Some leading academic organizations already have a policy to retain certain data for one hundred years or more with the requirement that the data remains accessible at all times. For example, the University of Massachusetts defines Permanent Records as those which will be retained indefinitely or for at least 100 years.²  With its innovative technology, DSSI is making the "optical jukebox" affordable for the SMB where it was previously only available through alternatives at the Enterprise level because of very significant cost.

"This combination of products is a real point of difference in the current market," said Matthew Johnson, Director of North American Sales Retrospect.  "It provides the functionality of an optical library that you see in an Enterprise environment for a fraction of the cost, so it is ideal for the Small to Medium Business that needs to satisfy its data compliance obligations and at the same time, retain access to the growing volume of fixed data that it stores."

 

About Centurion DiscHub
Centurion DiscHub is the industry's first affordable, intelligent optical data storage system, providing users with a 100-disc capacity per unit. Centurion DiscHub provides extremely reliable backup for up to 1TB of data, and nearly-instantaneous data recovery, resulting - for the first time ever - in an unparalleled price/performance solution for the market. Centurion DiscHub also provides the most versatile and secure platform for organizations struggling to meet regulatory requirements for long-term, secure data archive. Centurion DiscHub combines industry standard CD/DVD media with patent-protected architecture to offer greater reliability, flexibility and affordability than competing technologies.

 

About EMC Restrospect
EMC Retrospect delivers powerful and easy-to-use data protection for your servers, 24x7 applications, desktops and notebooks. It protects your business from data loss due to user error, computer failure or site-wide disasters, such as fire, theft or flood. Retrospect protects millions of computers worldwide, and consistently earns top awards and broad industry acclaim for its unique patented technology.
 
About Digistore Solutions
Digistore Solutions International Pty Ltd, an Australian registered corporation, is the global distribution arm for Digistore Solutions (S) Pte. Ltd.  Digistore Solutions (S) Pte. Ltd., headquartered in Singapore with its US headquarters in Wilmington, DE, delivers worldwide enterprise-class data storage solutions and services that keep business-critical information and applications accessible. The company delivers the advantages of business continuity through automation with information protection, application availability and storage management solutions. Digistore Solutions is an emerging market leader in data storage and is already providing solutions to a wide range of business and market segments. Services range from the commencement of a customer's planning process through to successful implementation. For more information, please visit www.digistoresolutions.com
 
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¹ Ohio State University – General Records Retention Schedule, February 13th, 2009
² University of Massachusetts - Records Management, Retention and Disposition Standards, Revised June 13th, 2008

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