DTST News & Events

Data Storage provided a letter to shareholders from its chairman and CEO, Chuck Piluso, unveiling the company's strategy targeting AI continuity infrastructure through the establishment of a new wholly owned subsidiary, Sovereign AI Solutions. SaiS is being developed as an AI continuity control plane for regulated industries designed to support recovery, validation, and compliance for sovereign AI and AI Factory environments across sectors such as healthcare, financial services, and insurance. The letter said, "The past year was one of deliberate transformation. In fiscal year 2025, we completed the $40 million sale of our cloud solutions business -a transaction that validated the value we built over two decades and gave us the financial foundation to pursue something far larger. Thereafter, using a portion of the proceeds from such sale, we completed a tender offer of our common stock resulting in our payment of $29.3 million upon our repurchase of outstanding shares of common stock from our shareholders that reduced the number of our shares outstanding by approximately 72%, to roughly 2.17 million shares. Today, Data Storage Corporation carries no long-term debt, holds substantial working capital, and is focused on capitalizing on a critical market gap. This decision was not reactive-it was strategic. The CloudFirst sale funded our pivot, and the intervening months were spent in evaluation: adding strategic advisors to our team and assessing market structure, regulatory trajectory, competitive dynamics, and technology feasibility. Industries are rapidly moving beyond AI for analytics and document creation and toward using it to run critical business processes. We've seen this evolution before with CPUs, where business continuity became essential, driving the need for geo-diverse data centers and regulatory requirements not just for security, but for full recovery in the same state. Our findings reinforce the same pattern emerging today: AI is being embedded in mission-critical workflows across healthcare, financial services, and insurance... In response, we are establishing a wholly owned subsidiary of DTST focused on developing a proprietary platform and are at the first stage of a purpose-built AI Continuity Control Plane for regulated enterprises. The intention, and client requirement, will be to serve as the resilience, recovery, and compliance layer for their AI systems: detecting behavioral anomalies, executing validated recovery sequences, and producing the audit-ready documentation that regulators in healthcare, financial services, and insurance increasingly require. This proprietary framework is intended to define recovery objectives in behavioral terms-model outputs, inference consistency, and compliance posture-rather than restoring hardware or GPU availability. We believe this approach is materially differentiated, delivers significant ROI, reduces client CapEx, and offers a more defensible solution than anything currently available. Although pre-revenue and still in the development stage, we are focused on advancing this new platform. Our go-to-market strategy will target regulated enterprises, with an economic model built around mission-critical, compliance-driven, high-margin, recurring revenue. We expect to provide further commercial updates throughout the year, as we work to advance the platform toward its first client engagements. Our continuing operations include Nexxis Inc., our telecom, direct internet access, and SD-WAN business, which provides a stable revenue base. The overall DTST financial position is strong: no long-term debt, disciplined capital deployment, and a management team with a demonstrated track record of building and monetizing technology infrastructure businesses. At the same time, we are approaching this opportunity with strategic flexibility. While our primary focus remains on advancing SaiS and establishing an early leadership position in AI continuity infrastructure supporting regulated industries, we will continue to evaluate complementary opportunities that may enhance shareholder value. This includes remaining attentive to potential partnerships, strategic investments, and M&A opportunities that could accelerate our capabilities, expand our market reach, or further strengthen our competitive position as this market evolves."

Data Storage Corporation announced the appointment of a group of experienced strategic advisors to support the execution of its post-tender offer strategy and the launch of a newly redesigned corporate website. The Company also provided a business update as it advances its next phase of growth. Following the divestiture of its cloud services business, Data Storage is advancing a "disciplined hybrid acquisition strategy targeting businesses with predictable cash flows, strong margins, and established customer bases, particularly within fragmented technology markets," the company said.

Data Storage provided a letter to shareholders from its CEO, Chuck Piluso. "As we look ahead to 2026, I would like to outline the strategic direction we plan to pursue while noting that as we progress through the Tender Offer process, expected to be completed on or about January 12th, we will gain a clear understanding of our available cash and can begin executing the plan.... Our 2026 plan centers on a disciplined hybrid acquisition strategy that focuses on technology consolidation and the acquisition of companies at attractive multiples, while remaining selective in pursuing additional investments across the technology market. We intend to evaluate acquisition opportunities including technology-enabled service providers such as managed IT, cybersecurity monitoring, telecom and UCaaS platforms... We intend to prioritize acquisitions in areas such as compliance-as-a-service, document security and digitization, access-control, healthcare BPO, and niche micro-SaaS+ services... We remain committed to evaluating companies that utilize GPUs, AI workflow tools, and automation platforms-pursuing them only when aligned with disciplined valuation criteria. To support our efforts, we have established an experienced advisory team that has the background to assist us in direction and diligence... To support this strategy, we plan to further repeat our centralized inbound marketing engine, enhance cross-selling capabilities, leverage a shared CRM, and continue implementing unified operational standards across business units."

Data Storage announced its intention to commence a tender offer to purchase for cash up to 6,192,990 shares of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share, at a purchase price of $5.20 per share, less any applicable withholding taxes and without interest, for an aggregate purchase price of up to $32,203,548. The Company intends to distribute to stockholders and file a tender offer statement on Schedule TO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, December 8, 2025. The Company intends to commence the Offer. The Offer, proration period, and withdrawal rights is scheduled to expire at 12:00 midnight, at the end of the day, New York City time, on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, unless the Offer is extended. Stockholders must validly tender and not validly withdraw their common stock before the Expiration Time to be eligible to participate in the tender offer. Tendered shares of common stock may only be withdrawn on or before the Expiration Time.