The Industry and Opportunity
−Removed: Data Storage Corporation provides Cloud Managed Services and technologies
−Removed: across multiple platforms.
−Removed: The Company’s technical assets are located in geographically diverse Tier 3 compliant data centers throughout
−Removed: the USA and Canada.
−Removed: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud have
−Removed: become mainstream technological offerings of the Cloud Managed Services industry as companies have moved away from legacy, on-premise
−Removed: technology solutions.
−Removed: This approach is growing more complex, as companies utilize disparate technical environments, including on-premises
−Removed: equipment and software, multi-clouds interfacing with Software as a Service providers, Amazon AWS and others while focusing on the remote
−Removed: employee or contractor for higher levels of security is driving growth in managed cloud services.
−Removed: Cloud Managed Service Providers
−Removed: assist businesses in achieving their desired security levels, technical cloud infrastructure and financial objectives while optimizing
−Removed: the value of these technologies and cloud resources through multi-cloud management, ensuring business continuity, governance, and operational
−Removed: efficiencies.
−Removed: This is a five hundred-billion-dollar
−Removed: One subset, a highly-focused segment of the Company, is IBM Power cloud infrastructure and disaster recovery.
−Removed: Globally estimated
−Removed: at over one million virtual IBM Power servers.
−Removed: According to the most recent information received from IBM typical industries utilizing
−Removed: IBM Power servers are finance, retail, healthcare, government, and distribution organizations.
−Removed: The Company is a leader in providing IBM Power cloud
−Removed: infrastructure, disaster recovery and the creation of unique offerings for over 15 years.
+Added: Data Storage Corporation provides Cloud Managed Services
+Added: and technologies across multiple platforms.
+Added: The Company’s technical assets are in geographically diverse, Tier 3 compliant data
+Added: centers throughout the USA and Canada.
+Added: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud have become mainstream technological
+Added: offerings of the Cloud infrastructure managed services industry as companies have moved away from legacy, on-premises technology solutions.
+Added: This approach has grown more complex, as companies utilize disparate technical environments, including on-premises equipment and software,
+Added: multi-clouds interfacing with Software as a Service providers, Amazon AWS and others while focusing on the remote employee or a contractor
+Added: for higher levels of security, driving growth in managed cloud services.
+Added: Cloud Managed Service Providers assist businesses
+Added: in achieving their desired security levels, technical cloud infrastructure and financial objectives while optimizing the value of these
+Added: technologies and cloud resources through multi-cloud management, ensuring business continuity, governance, and operational efficiencies.
+Added: One subset of this five hundred-billion-dollar industry
+Added: and a highly-focused segment of the Company is the IBM Power server;
+Added: of which AWS, Google and Microsoft are not competitors.
+Added: estimated that businesses in USA and Canada are operating over one million virtual IBM Power servers, known as LPAR’s.
+Added: to the most recent information received from IBM, the typical industries utilizing IBM Power servers are finance, retail, healthcare,
+Added: government, and distribution organizations.
+Added: The Company, through its CloudFirst subsidiary, is
+Added: a leader in providing IBM Power cloud infrastructure, disaster recovery and the creation of these unique offerings for over 15 years.
The opportunity for the Company, in the IBM Power
−Removed: server portfolio segment is to capture a share of this annual recurring revenue marketplace that is currently under migration to cloud
+Added: server portfolio segment is capturing a share of this annual recurring revenue marketplace that is currently under migration to cloud
infrastructure.
The Company believes businesses
−Removed: are increasingly under pressure to improve the proficiency of their information and storage systems accelerating the migration from self-managed
−Removed: technical equipment and solutions to fully managed multi-cloud technologies to reduce cost and compete effectively.
−Removed: These trends create
−Removed: an opportunity for cloud technology service providers.
+Added: are increasingly under pressure to improve the efficiency of their information and storage systems accelerating the migration from self-managed
+Added: technical equipment and solutions to fully managed multi-cloud technologies to reduce cost, protect capital, ensure disaster recovery,
+Added: protect the custom applications developed for these systems, and compete effectively.
+Added: These trends create an opportunity for cloud technology
+Added: service providers.
The Company’s market
opportunity is derived from the demand for fully managed cloud and cybersecurity services across all major operating systems.
−Removed: The Company’s target
−Removed: is the $46.7 billion marketplace in the United States and Canada of this overall, projected $1 trillion global marketplace.
+Added: CloudFirst’s addressable
+Added: market is approximately $36 billion in the United States and Canada with limited competition today.
+Added: Our Flagship subsidiary provides
+Added: business continuity and infrastructure solutions combining on-premises equipment and software with its value-added managed services to
+Added: business customers.
+Added: Flagship maintains strong partner relationships with some of the largest IT Manufactures such as the IBM Corporation
+Added: in supplying the technology behind the highly technical designs built for business customers.
+Added: Flagship’s vision is to expand its
+Added: multi-cloud infrastructure solutions with more managed services, highlighted by its expanding Cyber Security offerings to capture more
+Added: of the marketplace outside of the CloudFirst sales and marketing programs.
+Added: Our Nexxis subsidiary is
+Added: a voice and data solution provider that utilizes major nationwide carriers and providers.
+Added: The subsidiary provides a suite of communications
+Added: services including Hosted VoIP, Internet Access, Data Transport, and SD-WAN.
+Added: The Nexxis complete voice and data solution combines elements
+Added: of these services into a fully managed option that delivers high reliability and is engineered to further enhance business continuity.
+Added: Nexxis’s goal is to provide a higher level of technology yet simplify management and combine cost savings for our clients wherever
According to Fortune Business
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the MDR segment, is an established market recognized by buyers .
−Removed: Gartner observed a 35% growth in end users’ inquiries
−Removed: on the topic in the last year.
+Added: Gartner observed a 35% growth in end users’ inquiries on
+Added: the topic in the last year.
Gartner estimates that by 2025, the MDR market will reach $2.15 billion in revenue, up from $1.03 billion
in 2021, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.2%.
−Removed: The Company’s VOIP solutions fit well into this steadily growing
−Removed: segment which is expected to reach $90 billion worldwide in 2022 with a CAGR of 3.1% with $17 billion in the US according to Globe Newswire
−Removed: Market Analysis and Insights:
+Added: The Company’s VOIP solutions fit well into this steadily growing segment
+Added: which is expected to reach $90 billion worldwide in 2022 with a CAGR of 3.1% with $17 billion in the US according to Globe Newswire Market
+Added: Analysis and Insights:
Global VoIP Market.
−Removed: Data and Analytics is another market that is growing rapidly and the Company
−Removed: is breaking into, according to Globe Newswire this market was valued at $198 billion in 2020 and with a projected 13.5% CAGR we see this
−Removed: hitting $263 billion by the end of 2022 and based on the Big Data Business Analytics market share report posted on statista.com the US
−Removed: has 51% of that growth.
−Removed: Company is positioned to support this growth, in the IBM Power multi-cloud marketplace as businesses continue to migrate towards this
−Removed: Company has designed and built its solutions and services to support the demanding IBM Power System workload, manage hybrid cloud deployments
−Removed: and continue to provide solutions that keep data and workloads protected from disasters and security attacks.
Company Overview
−Removed: Data Storage Corporation, headquartered in Melville,
−Removed: New York, with its three subsidiaries, DSC, Flagship Solutions LLC and Nexxis, Inc., provides solutions and services to a broad range
−Removed: of clients in several industries, including healthcare, banking and finance, distribution services, manufacturing, construction, education,
−Removed: and government.
−Removed: The subsidiaries maintain business development teams, as well as independent distribution companies.
−Removed: As an example, the
−Removed: Company’s distribution channel of companies provides long-term subscription-based disaster recovery and cloud infrastructure without
−Removed: investing in the infrastructure, data centers, telecommunications or specialized technical staff, which substantially lowers their barrier
−Removed: of entry in providing these solutions to their client base.
−Removed: The distribution company has typically provided equipment and software.
−Removed: a client’s awareness in 2021 of the ability to migrate to an IBM Power cloud infrastructure and disaster recovery affords the distributor
−Removed: the ability to maintain the client and create an annuity year after year.
−Removed: To further support that awareness, over 55,000 visitors arrived
−Removed: at the Company’s website in 2021.
−Removed: During 2021, based on the May capital raise and the
−Removed: up list to Nasdaq, the Company added distribution, business development representatives, marketing, and technical personnel.
−Removed: continues to be focused on building the Company’s sales and marketing strategy and expanding its technology assets throughout its
−Removed: data center network.
−Removed: The Company’s business offices are located in
−Removed: New York and Florida.
−Removed: The offices include a technology center and lab, adapted to meet the technical requirements of the Company’s
−Removed: The Company maintains its own infrastructure, storage, and networking equipment required to provide subscription solutions in
−Removed: seven geographically diverse data centers located in New York, Massachusetts, Texas, Florida and North Carolina, and in Canada, Toronto,
−Removed: and Barrie, serving clients in the United States and Canada.
−Removed: The Company’s business continuity solutions
−Removed: allow clients to quickly recover from system outages, human and natural disasters, and cyber security attacks, such as Ransomware.
−Removed: Company’s managed cloud services begin with migration to the cloud and provide ongoing system support and management that enables
−Removed: its clients to run their software applications and technical workloads in a multi-cloud environment.
−Removed: The Company’s cyber security
−Removed: offerings include comprehensive consultation and a suite of data security, disaster recovery, and remote monitoring services and technologies
−Removed: that can be incorporated into the Company’s cloud solutions or be delivered as a standalone managed security offering covering the
−Removed: client site endpoint devices, users, servers, and equipment.
−Removed: Solution architects and the Company’s business
−Removed: development teams work with organizations identifying and solving critical business problems.
−Removed: The Company carefully plans and manages
−Removed: the migration and configuration process, continuing the relationship and advising its clients long after the services have been implemented.
−Removed: As of this filing, the Company has proposals outstanding of approximately $20 million in total contract value;
−Removed: and, total proposals outstanding
−Removed: for subscriptions solutions of approximately $14 million in total contract value.
−Removed: Reflecting on client satisfaction, the Company’s
−Removed: renewal rate on client subscription solutions is approximately 94% after their initial contract term expired.
−Removed: The Company provides its clients subscription-based, long-term agreements
−Removed: for cloud disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, telecommunications solutions, and high processing on-site computing power and software
−Removed: While a significant portion of the Company’s revenue has been subscription-based, it also generates revenue from the
−Removed: sale of equipment and software for cybersecurity, data storage, IBM Power systems equipment and managed service solutions.
−Removed: filing the Company has a backlog of over $500,000 in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and equipment and software backlog of approximately
+Added: Data Storage Corporation, is headquartered in Melville,
+Added: DTST operates through three subsidiaries;
+Added: DSC, a Delaware corporation now referred to as CloudFirst Technologies Corporation;
+Added: Flagship Solutions, LLC;
+Added: and Nexxis Inc.
+Added: These subsidiaries provide solutions and services to a broad range of clients in several industries
+Added: including healthcare, banking and finance, distribution services, manufacturing, construction, education, and government.
+Added: The subsidiaries
+Added: maintain business development teams, as well as independent distribution channels.
+Added: The Company typically provides long-term subscription-based
+Added: disaster recovery, and cloud infrastructure, cyber security, third party cloud management, managed services, dedicated internet access
+Added: and UCaaS / VoIP services.
+Added: During 2022, based on the
+Added: May 2021 capital raise and the up list to Nasdaq, the Company has accelerated organic growth strategies by adding distribution, marketing,
+Added: and technical personnel.
+Added: Management continues to be focused on building the Company’s sales and marketing strategy and expanding
+Added: its technology assets throughout its data center network.
+Added: The Company believes businesses
+Added: are increasingly under pressure to improve the reliability and efficiency of their information and storage systems accelerating the migration
+Added: from self-managed technical equipment and solutions to fully managed multi-cloud technologies to reduce cost and compete effectively.
+Added: Further, in today’s environment, capital preservation is an encouragement to move from a capital-intensive, on-premises technology,
+Added: to a pay as you grow, CapEx to OpEx model.
+Added: These trends create an opportunity for Cloud Technology Service providers.
+Added: The Company’s market
+Added: opportunity is derived from the demand for fully managed cloud and cybersecurity services across all major operating systems.
+Added: CloudFirst alone has an addressable
+Added: market estimated at $36 billion in annual recurring revenue in the United States and Canada with limited competition.
+Added: The Company has designed
+Added: and built its solutions and services to support demand for cloud-based IBM Power System that support client critical workloads and custom
+Added: in-house developed applications, manage hybrid cloud deployments and continue to provide solutions that keep data and workloads protected
+Added: from disasters and security attacks.
+Added: Company’s business offices are located in New York, Florida and Texas.
+Added: The New York and Florida offices include a technology center
+Added: and labs adapted to meet the technical requirements of the Company’s clients.
+Added: The Company maintains its own infrastructure, storage,
+Added: and networking equipment required to provide subscription solutions in seven geographically diverse data centers located in New York,
+Added: Massachusetts, Texas, Florida and North Carolina, and in Canada, Toronto, and Barrie, serving clients in the United States and Canada.
+Added: The Company’s disaster
+Added: recovery and business continuity solutions allow clients to quickly recover from system outages, human and natural disasters, and cyber
+Added: security attacks, such as Ransomware.
+Added: The Company’s managed cloud services begin with migration to the cloud and provide ongoing
+Added: system support and management that enables its clients to run their software applications and technical workloads in a multi-cloud environment.
+Added: The Company’s cyber security offerings include comprehensive consultation and a suite of data security, disaster recovery, and remote
+Added: monitoring services and technologies that are incorporated into the Company’s cloud solutions or are delivered as a standalone managed
+Added: security offering covering the client site endpoint devices, users, servers, and equipment.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: solution architects, and business development teams work with organizations identifying and solving critical business problems.
+Added: Company carefully plans and manages the migration and configuration process, continuing the relationship and advising its clients
+Added: long after the services have been implemented.
+Added: Reflecting on client satisfaction, the Company’s renewal rate on client
+Added: subscription solutions is approximately 94% after their initial contract term expired.
+Added: Growth Strategies
The Company will continue to drive revenues by expanding
−Removed: distribution channels.
−Removed: The Company will continue to build upon its social and digital lead generation programs.
−Removed: Further, the Company will
−Removed: continue to seek synergetic acquisitions that expand distribution, leading a technology trend, add to its existing technical staff and
−Removed: create economies of scale improving gross profit margins.
+Added: distribution channels while expanding digital and direct marketing programs.
+Added: The Company will accelerate building upon its social and
+Added: digital lead generation programs.
+Added: Further, the Company will continue to seek synergetic acquisitions that expand distribution, leading
+Added: a technology trend, add to its existing technical staff and create economies of scale improving gross profit margins.
The Company increases revenue
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The Company has a diverse
−Removed: community of distribution partners, ranging from IBM Business Partners, Software Vendors, application support providers, consultants,
−Removed: and other cloud infrastructure providers.
+Added: community of distribution partners, ranging from IBM Business Partners, Software Vendors, IT resellers, Managed Service Providers, application
+Added: support providers, consultants, and other cloud infrastructure providers.
The Company believes there
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Specifically, the Company’s support services cover:
−Removed: Cloud Infrastructure
−Removed: Disaster Recovery as a Service
−Removed: Cyber Security as a Service
−Removed: Data Analytics as a Service
−Removed: Solutions and Services
Cyber Security Solutions:
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: ezSecurity™ solution offers a suite of comprehensive cyber security products that can be utilized on systems at the client’s
−Removed: location or on systems hosted in the Company’s cloud.
−Removed: These offerings include fully managed endpoint (PCs and other user devices)
−Removed: security with active threat mitigation, system security assessments, risk analysis, and applications to ensure continuous security.
−Removed: contains a specialized offering for protecting and auditing IBM systems including a package designed to protect IBM systems against Ransomware
−Removed: Data Protection and Recovery Solutions:
−Removed: The Company offers a variety of data protection and disaster recovery solutions services designed to meet its clients’ requirements
−Removed: solution is at the core of the Company’s data protection services and allows its
−Removed: clients to have their data protected offsite with unlimited data retention in a secure location
−Removed: that uses encrypted, enterprise-grade storage which allows for remote recovery from system
−Removed: outages, human and natural disasters, and cyber security attacks like Ransomware and virus
−Removed: allowing restoration of data from a known good point in time prior to an attack.
−Removed: ● ezRecovery™
−Removed: provides standby systems, networking, and storage in the Company’s cloud infrastructure
−Removed: that allows for faster recovery from client backups stored using ezVault™ at the same
−Removed: hosted location.
+Added: ezSecurity™ offers
+Added: a suite of comprehensive cyber security solutions that can be utilized on systems at the client’s location or on systems hosted
+Added: in the Company.
+Added: These solutions include fully managed endpoint (PCs and other user devices) security with active threat mitigation,
+Added: system security assessments, risk analysis, and applications to ensure continuous security.
+Added: ezSecurity™ contains a specialized
+Added: offering for protecting and auditing IBM systems including a package designed to protect IBM systems against Ransomware attacks.
+Added: Data Protection and
+Added: Recovery Solutions:
+Added: ezVault™ solution
+Added: is at the core of the Company’s data protection services and allows its clients to have their data protected and stored offsite
+Added: with unlimited data retention in a secure location that uses encrypted, enterprise-grade storage which allows for remote recovery
+Added: from system outages, human and natural disasters, and cyber security attacks like Ransomware and viruses allowing restoration of
+Added: data from a known good point in time prior to an attack.
+Added: ezRecovery™ provides
+Added: standby systems, networking, and storage in the Company’s cloud infrastructure that allows for faster recovery from client
+Added: backups stored using ezVault™ at the same cloud based hosted location.
ezAvailability™
−Removed: solution offers reliable real-time data replication for mission-critical applications
−Removed: with Recovery Time Objective under fifteen minutes and near-zero Recovery Point Objective,
−Removed: with optional, fully managed replication services.
+Added: solution offers reliable real-time data replication for mission-critical applications with Recovery Time Objective under fifteen
+Added: minutes and near-zero Recovery Point Objective, with optional, fully managed replication services.
The Company’s ezAvailability™
−Removed: service consists of a full-time enterprise system, storage, and network resources, allowing
−Removed: quick and easily switched production workloads to the Company’s cloud when needed.
−Removed: The Company’s ezAvailability™ services are backed by a Service-Level Agreement
−Removed: (“SLA”) to help assure performance, availability, and access.
−Removed: solution provides replication services that mirror the clients’ data at the storage
−Removed: level and allows for similar near-zero Recovery Point Objective as ezAvailability with less
−Removed: application management and Recovery Time Objective under 1 hour.
−Removed: Cloud Hosted Production Systems:
−Removed: Company’s ezHost™ solution offers managed cloud services that removes the burden off system management from its clients
−Removed: and ensures that their software applications and IT workloads are running smoothly.
−Removed: ezHost™ provides full-time, scalable compute,
−Removed: storage, and network infrastructure resources to run clients’ workloads on the Company’s enterprise-class infrastructure.
−Removed: ezHost™ replaces the cost of support, maintenance, system administration, space, electrical power, and cooling of the typical hardware
−Removed: on-premises systems with a predictable monthly expense.
−Removed: The Company’s ezHost services are backed by an SLA governing performance,
−Removed: availability, and access.
+Added: service consists of a full-time enterprise system, storage, and network resources, allowing quick and easily switched production
+Added: workloads to the Company’s cloud when needed.
+Added: The Company’s ezAvailability™ services are backed by a Service-Level
+Added: Agreement (“SLA”) to help assure performance, availability, and access.
+Added: ezMirror™ solution
+Added: provides replication services that mirror the clients’ data at the storage level and allows for similar near-zero Recovery
+Added: Point Objective as ezAvailability with less application management and Recovery Time Objective under 1 hour.
+Added: Cloud Hosted Production
+Added: ezHost™ solution provides managed cloud services
+Added: that removes the burden off system management from its clients and ensures that their software applications and IT workloads are running
+Added: ezHost™ provides full-time, scalable compute, storage, and network infrastructure resources to run clients’ workloads
+Added: on the Company’s enterprise-class infrastructure.
+Added: ezHost™ replaces the cost of support, maintenance, system administration,
+Added: space, electrical power, and cooling of the typical hardware on-premises systems with a predictable monthly expense.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: ezHost services are backed by an SLA governing performance, availability, and access.
Voice & Data Solutions:
−Removed: our voice and data division, specializes in fully-managed VoIP, Internet Access, and Data Transport solutions that satisfy the requirements
−Removed: of corporate and remote workforce.
−Removed: Services are delivered over fiber optic, coaxial, and wireless networks to assist businesses fully
−Removed: connected from any location.
−Removed: Nexxis provides dedicated internet access with speeds of up to 10 Gbps, FailSAFE, a Cloud-first SD-WAN solution,
−Removed: that delivers industry-leading connectivity to cloud services, cloud-based Hosted VoIP and Unified Communications that provide business
−Removed: continuity and integration with Microsoft Teams.
−Removed: Data Analytics:
−Removed: Company’s trademarked Infralytics™ offering was developed to empower IT organizations to respond quickly and intelligently
−Removed: to business-impact issues as they arise.
−Removed: With Infralytics custom dashboards, a client can monitor physical servers,
−Removed: virtual machines, network devices, applications, and services across multiple platforms – whether on-premises, virtual, or in the
−Removed: It also allows the Company’s clients to gain enhanced visibility and control over their physical, virtual, and cloud IT infrastructure
−Removed: via customized, interactive dashboards.
−Removed: In addition, utilizing IBM’s Watson the Company is taking disparate data sources and
−Removed: developing algorithms to provide greater insight into the aggregation of that data.
−Removed: All of this is provided as a service with the
−Removed: primary deliverable a real-time dashboard.
+Added: Nexxis, our voice and data division, specializes in stand-alone and fully-managed VoIP, Internet Access, and Data Transport solutions
+Added: that satisfy the requirements of the traditional corporate and modern remote workforce.
+Added: Nexxis dedicated internet access services with
+Added: speeds of up to 10 Gbps and data transport circuits are typically delivered over fiber-optic networks while shared internet access is
+Added: typically delivered via fiber, coaxial, and wireless networks to help businesses stay fully connected from any location.
+Added: SD-WAN options
+Added: provide the ability for multi-site companies to prioritize their data traffic from site to site while FailSAFE, a Cloud-first SD-WAN solution,
+Added: can be used by a single location to gain industry-leading connectivity to cloud services and the internet.
+Added: Nexxis Hosted VoIP with Unified
+Added: Communications is a full-featured cloud-based PBX solution with built-in redundancy that provides business continuity and includes the
+Added: option to integrate with Microsoft Teams.
Corporate History
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This transaction with an IBM Gold Business Partner was synergetic to the Company’s services and added
−Removed: new solutions such as IP with their Renewalytics managed maintenance/software and data analytics practice.
+Added: new solutions.
The result of these acquisitions, combined with the
−Removed: Company’s legacy business continuity disaster recovery and IBM Power cloud infrastructure solutions, positions Data Storage Corporation
+Added: Company’s business continuity disaster recovery and IBM Power cloud infrastructure solutions, positions Data Storage Corporation
Competitive Landscape
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are competitive.
−Removed: However, competition is limited in the Company’s $46.7 billion marketplace, compared to the limitless competitors,
−Removed: competing against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Microsoft today which hold an estimated 51% of the marketplace for X86 cloud
−Removed: infrastructure and X86 disaster recovery platforms.
−Removed: Today, the IBM Power community, based on a recent IBM user survey, only 15% of the
−Removed: IBM Power server community utilizes the cloud.
−Removed: Other Company services and solutions, outside of the IBM Power user community face many
−Removed: competitors for cyber security and data analytics, however, these solutions and services are typically provided by the Company to their
−Removed: existing clients and distribution companies.
+Added: However, competition is limited, in the CloudFirst subsidiary for this $36 billion marketplace, compared to the limitless
+Added: competitors, competing against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Microsoft today which hold an estimated 51% of the marketplace for
+Added: X86 cloud infrastructure and X86 disaster recovery platforms.
+Added: Today, the IBM Power community, based on a recent IBM user survey, only
+Added: 15% of the IBM Power server community utilizes the cloud.
+Added: Other Company services and solutions, outside of the IBM Power user community
+Added: face many competitors for cyber security, however, these solutions and services are typically provided by the Company to their existing
+Added: clients and distribution companies.
These markets are characterized by frequent product
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and include several large, well-funded and experienced participants.
−Removed: The Company’s future financial condition and operating results depend
−Removed: on the Company’s ability to continue to provide a high-quality solution as well as increase distribution of the solutions in each
−Removed: of the markets in which it competes.
−Removed: Flagship Solutions, LLC.
+Added: The Company’s future financial condition and
+Added: operating results depend on the Company’s ability to continue to provide a high-quality solution as well as increase distribution
+Added: of the solutions in each of the markets in which it competes.
+Added: Flagship Solutions,
On February 4, 2021, we entered into an Agreement
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subsidiary (the “Merger Sub”), Flagship Solutions, LLC (“Flagship”), a Florida limited liability company, and
−Removed: the owners (collectively, the “Equityholders”) of all of the issued and outstanding limited liability company membership interests
−Removed: in Flagship (collectively, the “Equity Interests”), pursuant to which, upon the Closing (as defined below), we acquired Flagship
−Removed: through the merger of Merger Sub with and into Flagship (the “Merger”), with Flagship being the surviving company in the Merger
−Removed: and becoming, as a result, our wholly-owned subsidiary.
−Removed: The closing of the Merger (the “Closing”) Flagship was completed on
−Removed: June 1, 2021.
−Removed: Flagship is a provider of IBM equipment and solutions, managed services and cloud solutions that include cloud-based server
−Removed: monitoring and management, 24×7 help desk support, and data center infrastructure management.
+Added: the owners (collectively, the “Equity holders”) of all of the issued and outstanding limited liability company membership
+Added: interests in Flagship (collectively, the “Equity Interests”), pursuant to which, upon the Closing (as defined below), we acquired
+Added: Flagship through the merger of Merger Sub with and into Flagship (the “Merger”), with Flagship being the surviving company
+Added: in the Merger and becoming, as a result, our wholly-owned subsidiary.
+Added: The closing of the Merger (the “Closing”) was completed
+Added: on June 1, 2021.
+Added: Flagship is a provider of IBM equipment and solutions, managed services and cloud solutions that include cloud-based
+Added: server monitoring and management, 24×7 help desk support, and data center infrastructure management.
Concurrently with the Closing, Flagship and Mark Wyllie,
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Wyllie, as of November 11, 2021, became an Officer of the Company.
+Added: Wyllie resigned from all positions he held with
+Added: Flagship and the Company on October 28, 2022.
+Added: Thomas Kempster has been appointed President of Flagship Solutions Group.
The foregoing information has been filed as an exhibit
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with this transaction.
−Removed: In December 2019, a novel
−Removed: strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, was reported in Wuhan, China.
−Removed: The World Health Organization determined that the outbreak constituted
−Removed: a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” and declared a pandemic.
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting businesses
−Removed: and affecting production and sales across a range of industries, as well as causing volatility in the financial markets.
−Removed: The extent of
−Removed: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s customer demand, sales and financial performance will depend on certain developments,
−Removed: including, among other things, the duration and spread of the outbreak and the impact on its customers and employees, all of which are
−Removed: uncertain and cannot be predicted.
−Removed: See “Risk Factors” for information regarding certain risks associated with the pandemic.
−Removed: COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud transformation efforts for new and existing customers and underscored the importance and mission-critical
−Removed: nature of multi-cloud strategies.
−Removed: Over the last year, customers have increasingly turned to cloud solutions to pivot to new business models,
−Removed: improved their disaster recovery of mission-critical data, migrated to cloud-based solutions and reduced their capital expenditure requirements.
−Removed: Since September 2021 the
−Removed: Company has adopted a hybrid model that allows for its employees to either work remotely utilizing solutions the Company provides to their
−Removed: clients and distribution channels, or work in its offices.
−Removed: Additionally, the Company’s remote, technology-enabled model has enabled
−Removed: minimal disruption to its go-to-market efforts and service delivery organizations.
−Removed: Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic
−Removed: has not had a significant impact on the Company’s operations or financial performance;
−Removed: however, the ultimate extent of the impact
−Removed: of the COVID-19 pandemic on its operational and financial performance will depend on certain developments, including the duration and
−Removed: spread of the outbreak and its impact on the Company’s customers, vendors and employees and its impact on its sales cycles as well
−Removed: as industry events, all of which are uncertain and cannot be predicted.
−Removed: of the impact, if any, will depend on future developments, including actions taken to contain COVID-19.
−Removed: See also “Risk Factors”
−Removed: for more information.
−Removed: 2020, the Company was granted a loan from a banking institution, in the principal amount of $481,977 (the “Loan”), pursuant
−Removed: to the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”) under Division A, Title I of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security
−Removed: Act (the “CARES Act”), which was enacted on March 27, 2020.
+Added: April 30, 2020, the Company was granted a loan from a banking institution, in the principal amount of $481,977 (the “Loan”),
+Added: pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”) under Division A, Title I of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic
+Added: Security Act (the “CARES Act”), which was enacted on March 27, 2020.
The Loan, which was in the form of a Note dated April
−Removed: matures on April 30, 2022, and bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.00% per annum, payable monthly to Signature Bank, as the lender, commencing
−Removed: on November 5, 2020.
−Removed: Funds from the loan may only be used to retain workers and maintain payroll or make mortgage payments, lease payments
−Removed: and utility payments.
+Added: 30, 2020, matures on April 30, 2022, and bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.00% per annum, payable monthly to Signature Bank, as the
+Added: lender, commencing on November 5, 2020.
+Added: Funds from the loan may only be used to retain workers and maintain payroll or make mortgage payments,
+Added: lease payments and utility payments.
Management used the entire Loan amount for qualifying expenses.
−Removed: Under the terms of the PPP, certain amounts of the
−Removed: Loan may be forgiven if they are used for qualifying expenses as described in the CARES Act.
−Removed: The Company received forgiveness for the
−Removed: full amount during the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: The extent of the impact, if any, will depend on future
−Removed: developments, including actions taken to contain COVID-19.
−Removed: See also “Risk Factors” for more information.
−Removed: Reverse Stock Split
−Removed: On March 8, 2021, the Company’s Board of Directors
−Removed: and its stockholders that have in excess of 50% of its voting power approved an amendment to its articles of incorporation to effect a
−Removed: reverse stock split with a ratio of between 1:2 to 1:60, to be effected in the discretion of its Board of Directors.
−Removed: Based on the Nasdaq
−Removed: up listing on May 17, 2021, the Company had a reverse split of 40:1.
+Added: Under the terms of the PPP, certain
+Added: amounts of the Loan may be forgiven if they are used for qualifying expenses as described in the CARES Act.
+Added: The Company received forgiveness
+Added: for the full amount during the year ended December 31, 2021.
Government Regulation
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Business associate agreements typically include:
−Removed: description of the Company’s permitted uses of individually identifiable health information;
−Removed: covenant not to disclose that information except as permitted under the agreement and to make the
−Removed: Company’s subcontractors, if any, subject to the same restrictions;
+Added: a description of the Company’s
+Added: permitted uses of individually identifiable health information;
+Added: a covenant not to disclose
+Added: that information except as permitted under the agreement and to make the Company’s subcontractors, if any, subject to the same
+Added: restrictions;
assurances that appropriate
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to the Company’s customers any use or disclosure of that information other than as provided for in the agreement;
−Removed: prohibition against the Company’s use or disclosure of that information if a similar use or
−Removed: disclosure by its customers would violate the HIPAA standards;
−Removed: ability of the Company’s customers to terminate their subscription to its solution if the Company
−Removed: breaches a material term of the business associate agreement and are unable to cure the breach;
+Added: a prohibition against the
+Added: Company’s use or disclosure of that information if a similar use or disclosure by its customers would violate the HIPAA standards;
+Added: the ability of the Company’s
+Added: customers to terminate their subscription to its solution if the Company breaches a material term of the business associate agreement
+Added: and are unable to cure the breach;
the requirement to return
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Human Capital Resources
−Removed: The Company believes that its success depends upon
−Removed: its ability to attract, develop and retain key personnel.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2022, the Company employed 60 full-time employees and 2 part-time
−Removed: employees, of which eight are executive management, thirteen are administration and finance, twelve are sales staff and twenty-nine were
−Removed: part of its technical team.
−Removed: None of the Company’s employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements, and management considers
−Removed: relations with the Company’s employees to be in good standing.
−Removed: Although the Company continually seeks to add additional talent to
−Removed: its workforce, management believes that it has sufficient human capital to operate its business successfully.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: compensation programs are designed to align the compensation of its employees with its performance and to provide the proper incentives
−Removed: to attract, retain and motivate employees to achieve superior results.
−Removed: The structure of the Company’s compensation programs balances
−Removed: incentive earnings for both short-term and long-term performance.
−Removed: and safety of the Company’s employees is its highest priority, and this is consistent with its operating philosophy.
−Removed: The primary mailing address for the Company is 48 South Service Road, Suite
−Removed: 203, Melville, NY 11747.
+Added: We believe that our success depends upon our ability
+Added: to attract, develop and retain key personnel.
+Added: As of March 31, 2023, we employed 45 full-time employees, of which six are executive management,
+Added: seven are administration and finance, nine are sales staff, several of which are dedicated to support our network of distribution partners,
+Added: two are marketing staff and twenty-one were part of our technical team.
+Added: The Company also maintains a group of independent contractors
+Added: to provide service support and installations on a as needed basis.
+Added: None of our employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements,
+Added: and management considers relations with our employees to be in good standing.
+Added: Although we continually seek to add additional talent to
+Added: our work force, management believes that it has sufficient human capital to operate its business successfully.
+Added: The Company’s compensation
+Added: programs are designed to align the compensation of its employees with its performance and to provide the proper incentives to attract,
+Added: retain and motivate employees to achieve superior results.
+Added: The structure of the Company’s compensation programs balances incentive
+Added: earnings for both short-term and long-term performance.
+Added: The health and safety of the Company’s employees
+Added: is its highest priority, and this is consistent with its operating philosophy.
+Added: Corporate Information
+Added: The primary mailing address for the Company is 48
+Added: South Service Road, Suite 203, Melville, NY 11747.
Available Information
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: corporate website address is www.datastoragecorp.com .
−Removed: All filings the
−Removed: Company makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, its Quarterly
−Removed: Reports on Form 10-Q, its Current Reports on Form 8-K, its proxy statements and any amendments thereto filed or furnished pursuant
−Removed: to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are available for free in the Investor Relations
−Removed: section of the Company’s website as soon as reasonably practicable after they are filed with or furnished to the SEC.
−Removed: The reference
−Removed: to the Company’s website address does not constitute inclusion or incorporation by reference of the information contained on the
−Removed: Company’s website in this Form 10-K or other filings with the SEC, and the information contained on the Company’s website
−Removed: is not part of this document.
+Added: The Company’s corporate
+Added: website address is www.dtst.com .
+Added: All filings the Company makes with the Securities and Exchange
+Added: Commission (“SEC”), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, its Current Reports on Form
+Added: 8-K, its proxy statements and any amendments thereto filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
+Added: Act of 1934, as amended, are available for free in the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website as soon as reasonably
+Added: practicable after they are filed with or furnished to the SEC.
+Added: The reference to the Company’s website address does not constitute
+Added: inclusion or incorporation by reference of the information contained on the Company’s website in this Form 10-K or other filings
+Added: with the SEC, and the information contained on the Company’s website is not part of this document.
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