Press Release

FileTek Joins SunTone(SM) Architectural Council - Storage Service Provider (SSP) Council to Set Standards for Sun's SunTone Certification

Rockville, MD (May 8, 2001) - FileTek, Inc., a data management systems provider, today announced that it has joined the SunTone(SM) Storage Service Provider (SSP) Architectural Council as a participating member. The council, operating under the SunTone Certification and Branding Program, is a collaborative effort between e-industry companies and Sun Microsystems to identify best practices and establish standard requirements for SunTone Certification within the SSP industry.

The SunTone Certification and Branding Program, led by Sun Microsystems, strives to make round-the-clock service and reliability the norm for consumer and business web-enabled services. With the SunTone certified seal of approval, customers can now identify suppliers who meet defined high standards for providing quality outsourced services. Providers of web-enabled application hosting (including digital storage services from FileTek) must meet high standards for excellence in infrastructure, operational practice, performance, security and availability.

"We're very excited and honored to participate in this industry best practices council," said Dave Daughters, FileTek's Vice President of Business Development. "FileTek believes that there's a growing need for SSPs, and it's gratifying to know that Sun sees our knowledge of web-enabled storage application hosting services of value to the council. We look forward to contributing our knowledge and insight to this great Sun certification program."

"We welcome FileTek as a key member of the SunTone SSP Architectural Council to help define best practices and high quality standards," said Matt Huntsman, Partner Marketing Manager of Sun's Network Storage group. "We look forward to working with them to help make quality delivery of Internet storage services a top priority."

FileTek’s flagship product, StorHouse®, permits access to row-level data stored across all storage media (e.g., tape, optical, magnetic disk). It transparently integrates with the most popular databases, such as Oracle®, DB2 UDB™, and SQL Server™, and supports industry-standard gateways and data access methods. StorHouse runs exclusively on the Sun Solaris™ operating environment.

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About FileTek

FileTek, Inc. is an enterprise data management solutions provider that dramatically lowers the total cost of storing and managing an organization's data. Its flagship product, StorHouse, is a complete data management solution that lets organizations effectively use their data assets while addressing the problems of the exploding volumes of information that organizations accumulate each day.

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

Telephone 301-251-0600
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For more information, contact: Peter Abzug.
pabzug@filetek.com (301) 517-1823