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DPS by ARCO Appoints Steve Hammond Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Hollywood, FL, March 16, 2005 - Data Protection Solutions by Arco (DPS), the pioneer and leading provider of disk-to-disk (D2D) solutions protecting data at the edge of the network, has appointed Steven D. Hammond as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Hammond, who reports to President/CEO Lawrence F. Steffann, will be responsible for driving the company's worldwide sales and marketing programs, product management and marketing functions, establishing and developing global, strategic distribution relations, and directing the company's marketing communications.

Mr. Hammond joins DPS by Arco from vehicle economic total loss recovery solution provider Vemark, LLC, where he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He successfully transformed the company from a single product position to an end-to-end solutions provider, enabling vehicle remarketers to better the management of total loss cycle. In addition, Mr. Hammond was previously Vice President of Marketing for the leading document accounting solution provider Equitrac Corporation, where he repositioned the company from a leading cost recovery solution provider to the Legal market into a document accounting solutions powerhouse. He extended its market reach to serve the higher and primary education markets, Architectural & Engineering, Library and general office markets as well as to develop channel relationships. Mr. Hammond also brings with him over two decades of strategic marketing experience from notables Pillsbury Company, Expert Software, Boca Research, Micro Design International and nStor Technologies.

"Steve Hammond has an established excellence in strategic marketing, in areas key to the long-term success of Data Protection Solutions. His expertise will be used to help us forge vibrant partnerships, drive product development and strengthen our position in the market to better address the rapidly growing demand for D2D solutions," said DPS CEO Larry Steffann. "Steve's experience and leadership skills will also be vital to our plans to make DPS solutions applicable to a broader audience both in vertical markets and in market segments."

Earlier in his career, Mr. Hammond was responsible for establishing the Expert brand at notables such as CompUSA, Office Depot and Best Buy among others. He built strong distribution relationships with Tech Data, Ingram and D&H Distributing when working at Boca Research, and he led the Optical Storage industry through the writable CD/DVD platform consolidation, as well as Universal Disk Format adoption while at Micro Design. In addition, he pioneered electronic marketing and delivery of solutions through the applications service model at various companies. He holds both Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Wisconsin.

"DPS provides vital solutions to safeguard data that is largely unprotected by other technologies due to their complexity and time requirements. Businesses of all sizes now realize the extraordinary value of this unprotected data and the market conditions are excellent for DPS solutions," Mr. Hammond stated. "With the array of solutions DPS has today and on deck for near-term development, there has never been a better time to join this company and seize this opportunity."

Headquartered in south Florida, Data Protection Solutions by Arco (http://www.ezd2d.com/) was founded in 1989. Its disk mirroring RAID controller and EzBackup™ disk-to-disk (D2D) product lines, powered by the company¹s patented DupliDisk technology, are designed to preserve the value of personal and corporate data. Data values are growing exponentially, and the high failure rate of tape-based backups and restores is a more serious threat to these values than ever. D2D backup provides cost-effective backup and storage up to terabyte capacity. It is now recognized as the "fail-safe" solution to data protection for enterprise, SMB and SOHO applications. The company serves both direct and OEM markets through distributors and resellers in the United States, Europe and the Far East.