SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - July 22, 2009) -
Data
Robotics, Inc.™, the company that is changing the way the world
stores and protects digital content, today announced that it has achieved
100 percent growth in worldwide sales over the second quarter of 2008. The
company's second quarter sales were also 30 percent higher than first
quarter sales and the cumulative number of units sold reached 75,000.
Data Robotics attributes the growth to the demand for its innovative
data storage solutions, Drobo® and
DroboPro®. Released in April, DroboPro
opened the small and medium sized business market to the company and buyers
in this new market rapidly adopted the product to accelerate sales in the
second quarter. The company also continued aggressive growth in its channel
program with the addition of 240 new resellers.
"Data Robotics is clearly bucking IT and storage industry trends with
unprecedented growth in a challenging economy," said Brian Babineau, senior
analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "This success can be attributed to
Data Robotics enabling companies to devote more resources to business
growth, and significantly less time and money to managing storage."
Continued Innovation: DroboPro -- Storage that Manages Itself
DroboPro, announced in April, is the first business class storage array
that manages itself. DroboPro delivers a radically simplified storage
experience enhanced by advanced self-monitoring and self-healing
functionality that enables small and medium businesses to maintain uptime
in the face of constant data growth. Built on the company's award-winning
BeyondRAID™ virtualized storage
platform, DroboPro provides enterprise-level business continuity features
-- including protection against multiple concurrent drive failures and
no-downtime capacity expansion with thin provisioning -- while eliminating
the limitations of traditional RAID configurations.
"DroboPro has been an incredible addition to our product portfolio and
we've seen customer demand for the product at three times the rate we
originally forecasted," said Dr. Geoff Barrall, CEO and founder of Data
Robotics. "We believe our unique ability to take the complexity and high
cost out of data storage is resonating well with our customers. We're
committed to delivering innovative, new solutions that further address the
storage demands businesses face with the soaring growth of digital
content."
Partner Momentum
Data Robotics also added 240 new resellers worldwide in the second quarter
as a result of its highly incentivized partner program and unique product
offerings. The company sells 100 percent through the channel and has more
than 1,200 channel partners worldwide that have sold its award-winning
Drobo and DroboPro storage arrays. The company has met success by
delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and
easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants. Furthermore, Drobo
and DroboPro combine the most straightforward user experience available in
data storage with robust feature sets and no-downtime scalability -- all at
the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry.
Customer Momentum
The company has added thousands of new customers across a multitude of
vertical industries including biotechnology, education, engineering,
finance, government, healthcare/medical, legal, manufacturing,
pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and video production.
Key customer highlights include:
-- Morning news show for major American television network
-- One of the world's largest hospitality companies with over 7,000
hotels
-- Fortune 50 computer software company
-- Leading aircraft manufacturing corporation
-- Major Ivy League universities
-- Fortune 100 Internet networking company
-- World famous U.S.-based theme park
-- One of the largest general hospitals in the United States
-- Two major United States government intelligence agencies
-- Major US-based space flight center and research laboratory
Industry Recognition
Data Robotics won several industry awards during the first half of 2009
including:
-- 2009 Macworld "Best Consumer Storage" award, Drobo
-- Penton Media's Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine® Best of
Tech·Ed 2009 award in "Breakthrough Product" category, DroboPro
-- CRN Emerging Technology Vendor, Data Robotics
-- TIPA (Technical Image Press Association) "Best Storage Backup System"
award, Drobo
About Data Robotics
Data Robotics, the company that is changing the way the world stores
digital content, develops automated storage products designed to ensure
data is always protected, accessible and simple to manage. The
award-winning Drobo storage arrays are the first to provide the protection
of traditional RAID without the complexity. The revolutionary BeyondRAID
technology frees users from making the difficult and confining choice of
which RAID level to deploy by providing an unprecedented combination of
advanced features and automation, including single and dual disk
redundancy, instant expansion, self-monitoring, data awareness,
self-healing, and an easy-to-understand visual status and alert panel. For
more information, visit Data Robotics at
www.datarobotics.com.
Data Robotics, Drobo, and BeyondRAID are trademarks of Data Robotics, Inc.,
that may be registered in some jurisdictions. All other trademarks used
are owned by their respective owners.
Contact Information: Media Contact:
Angela Griffo
Trainer Communications
949-842-7695