Press Release

FileTek Establishes New European Company

Rockville, MD (June 20, 2000) - FileTek, Inc. announced today that it has established FileTek, GmbH*, a new company offering sales and technical support for its data management solutions within central Europe. The company, located outside of Heidelberg, Germany, will be responsible for revenue growth within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. FileTek, a leading enterprise data management solutions provider, is the developer of StorHouse® patented award-winning software.

Leo Kistner will head FileTek, GmbH as Business Development Manager. Mr. Kistner has many years' experience in the data storage industry, most recently with StorageTek, GmbH. The new European headquarters' are located at PartnerPort, Altrottstrasse 31, 69190 Walldorf, Germany. Tel: +49 (0) 62 27 / 381 411 Fax: +49 (0) 62 27 / 381 200.

"By establishing a presence in Germany, FileTek confirms the company's commitment to providing the European IT market with reliable, cost-effective data management solutions," said Nick Van Wyk, Director of International Operations, FileTek UK, Ltd. "Between our present United Kingdom office and our new German office, customers will be assured of consistent support before, during, and after the sales process."

StorHouse is the only storage management system incorporating a relational database capability that allows direct access to rows stored across all storage media (e.g., tape, RAID, optical). FileTek designed StorHouse to manage terabytes to petabytes of enterprise-wide atomic or detailed data, enabling the storage and exploitation of exhaustive business information, such as: Internet clickstream detail data, telephone call details, market basket data, and financial transactions.

About FileTek

FileTek, Inc. develops, markets and supports integrated data storage and access management solutions that help organizations reduce costs and increase return on investment by enabling accurate decision-making. The company specializes in enterprise-level management and storage of transaction and historical data in relational and non-relational form.

FileTek is headquartered at 9400 Key West Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850.