FileTek Joins SunTone Architectural Council

FileTek Inc, a data management systems provider, announced that it has joined the SunTone 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.

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.

For a free StorHouse Concepts and Facilities Manual, e-mail: info@filetek.com or call 301-517-1823.

About FileTek

FileTek Inc is an enterprise data management systems provider that dramatically lowers the total cost of storing and managing an organization's data. Its flagship product, StorHouse, is a complete data management offering 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. Fax: 301-251-1990. FileTek also has offices located in the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium. Internet: www.filetek.com.

About the SunTone Certification and Branding Program

Launched in May 1999, The SunTone Certification and Branding Program is a collaborative effort with industry-wide support, led by Sun Microsystems, Inc, to promote 7-by-24 service and reliability as a norm for consumer and business Internet-based services. Under the SunTone Certification and Branding Program, service software, and overall service delivery to help ensure that the services or products they provide meet the program's high standards. Certification under the SunTone program is designed to give customers the confidence that every aspect of the operations and infrastructure has been evaluated and judged to be reliable and of high quality. The SunTone Certification and Branding program currently has more than 1400 applicants for certification, including service providers, independent software vendors, and integrators, and over 90 SunTone Certified solutions available to meet a variety of business needs.

Contact Peter Abzug, FileTek Inc, pabzug@filetek.com, 301-517-1823.