Partners with Arsenal Digital Solutions to deliver a range of storage and data protection solutions to midsize and small businesses.

Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications and a managed hosting solutions provider, yesterday announced that it has expanded its data protection and managed storage service offerings through a partnership with Arsenal Digital Solutions, a provider of storage management services, to deliver a range of storage and data protection solutions to midsize and small businesses.

Building on its existing relationship with Arsenal, Verio has focused on the creation and delivery of cost-effective solutions for on and off-site storage management and data protection. Verio's managed storage and data protection services include Remote Data Backup and Restore, Data Center Backup and Restore, Managed Storage Area Network Solutions and Database Backup.

"Businesses today face a range of regulatory and compliance requirements for data protection, retention and accessibility," said Bill Jolly, Director of Product Management for Verio. "Data backup and recovery has critical impact to operations for businesses of all sizes, and any data loss or downtime has shown to have significant potential impact to an organization. With the expansion of our managed storage options from Arsenal, Verio continues to help businesses drive down storage costs while ensuring data availability with easier management, increased efficiencies and guaranteed performance."

"Organizations of every size and industry - from banks to hospitals to insurers - are being forced to re-examine their data protection processes not only as a fail-safe against human error and disaster, but also to meet regulatory requirements for data security, accessibility and chain-of-custody," said Sam Sigarto, COO, Arsenal. "We look forward to working with Verio to offer the most reliable solutions for meeting these data protection mandates - regardless where data resides - quickly, cost-effectively and worry-free."