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FileTek Named Finalist in Five Categories of 2008 Document Management Awards

StorHouse nominated for four awards, including "Product of the Year." Trusted Edge up for "Software Product of the Year."

Rockville, MD - October 2, 2008 - FileTek, Inc., a pioneer developer of innovative information and data management solutions, today announced that it is a finalist in five categories of the 2008 Document Management Awards, as nominated by the readers of DM Magazine, the UK's number one IT storage magazine. FileTek's StorHouse® product has been named a finalist in the "Compliance Product of the Year," "ILM Product of the Year," "Content Management Product of the Year," and "Product of the Year" categories, while the company's Trusted Edge® Desktop Data Management Suite is competing in the "Software Product of the Year" category.

Winners will be chosen via online voting available at the DM Awards website (www.dmawards.com/). Voting lasts through October 15. The DM Awards results will be presented at a black-tie gala dinner October 23 at the Tower Hotel, London, and highlighted in the November/December issue of DM Magazine.

"To be a finalist in five out of 21 categories featuring the top companies and products in the industry is a tremendous honor," said Bill Loomis, CEO of FileTek. "But even more importantly, the fact that we're in the running due to being nominated by our customers, peers and business partners is the ultimate compliment, validating the hard work of our employees and the quality of our products."

FileTek develops, markets, and supports integrated solutions for classifying, storing, accessing, managing, and preserving data with its flagship StorHouse and Trusted Edge Desktop Data Management Suite family of products. StorHouse provides enterprise-class data management solutions for large-volume applications such as digital information preservation, financial services, active archives, and database extension systems. Benefits include reduced data ownership costs, complete cross-platform data sharing across the enterprise with seamless multi-tier support, a continuous self-healing data integrity audit mechanism, and scalability to multiple petabytes with unlimited object capabilities and no performance degradation.

FileTek's Trusted Edge Desktop Data Management Suite provides centralized, policy-driven Information Classification and Management (ICM) for documents and email at the desktop level to improve retention compliance, reduce litigation risk, and lower overall enterprise storage costs. Trusted Edge reduces the amount of non-relevant information clogging the system and intelligently routes critical information to a federated storage architecture

About FileTek

FileTek, Inc. is a premier provider of robust data storage and access management solutions, enabling enterprises, worldwide and across multiple industry segments, to effectively manage and rapidly access ever-growing volumes of historical data. Products include StorHouse for enterprise-class data and information lifecycle management and Trusted Edge Desktop Document Management Suite for digital asset management in the front office, desktop applications market space. FileTek is headquartered at 9400 Key West Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850. Telephone: 301-251-0600. Fax: 301-251-1990. FileTek's international headquarters, FileTek Ltd, is located at One Northumberland Ave., London WC2N 5BW. Telephone: +44 (0) 207 872 5583. Fax: +44 (0) 207 753 2829. The company also has offices across North America. Internet: www.filetek.com.

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