Site Map | Contact Us

Press Release

FileTek's Cetera Storage Services Earns SunTone[sm] Certification -Company's Cetera Storage Service Product Passes SunTone Program's Rigorous Assessment

Rockville, MD (November 28, 2001) - FileTek, Inc., a data storage and access systems provider, today announced that the company's Cetera™ enterprise-based digital storage service has been SunTone[sm] certified. This designation was awarded after a meticulous assessment concerning Cetera's infrastructure, processes, security, and disaster recovery measures. Cetera is based upon FileTek's award-winning StorHouse® technology.

The SunTone Certification and Branding Program, led by Sun Microsystems, Inc., strives to ensure round-the-clock service and reliability for businesses using web-enabled solutions. With the SunTone-certified seal of approval, Cetera meets these pre-defined high standards for providing quality service.

"We're very excited and honored to receive the SunTone certification for Cetera," said Dave Daughters, FileTek's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. "FileTek believes that there's a growing need for enterprise-based storage service systems products, and it's gratifying to know that our technology and architecture meet superior SunTone standards. We look forward to deploying the Cetera product to assist companies with their data storage and data access needs."

"By achieving SunTone certification for Cetera, FileTek has passed a rigorous review process to meet industry-based high standards for excellence in infrastructure, availability and uptime," said Tim Dwyer, Vice President of Sun's Industry Solutions Group. "Customers can be confident that FileTek's storage service is built and managed according to industry best practices and high quality standards established by the SunTone program."

FileTek's flagship product, StorHouse®, permits access to row-level data stored across all storage media (e.g., disk, optical, tape). 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. For more information, e-mail info@filetek.com or call toll free: 866-238-3727.

About FileTek
FileTek, Inc. is a provider of data storage and access management systems, enabling enterprises, worldwide and across multiple industry segments, to rapidly access ever-growing volumes of historical data. FileTek is headquartered at 9400 Key West Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850. Telephone: 301-251-0600. Fax: 301-251-1990. The company also has offices located in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium. Internet: www.filetek.com

About the SunTone[sm] Certification and Branding Program
The SunTone Certification and Branding Program is a collaborative industry effort, 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 program, service providers, independent software vendors, and integrators have endured a rigorous review process that examines infrastructure, operational practices, hardware, software, and overall service delivery to help ensure that the services or products provided by a company meet the SunTone program's best practices and high quality standards. Certification under the SunTone program is designed to give customers the confidence that each aspect of the company's operations and infrastructure has been evaluated and judged to be reliable and of high quality based on industry-derived standards. Launched in May 1999, the SunTone program currently has more than 1500 applicants for certification and more than 200 SunTone-certified solutions available to meet a variety of business needs.

©2001 FileTek. All rights reserved. FileTek and StorHouse are U.S. registered trademarks of FileTek, Inc. Other trademarks included herein are the properties of their respective owners. The following U.S. patents protect StorHouse: 4,864,572; 5,247,660; 5,727,197; 6,049,804.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, SunTone, and the SunTone logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Top of page

More Information
- Events
- Press Releases
- Press Contact
- Press Center

Copyright © FileTek, Inc. 2002-2004
All rights reserved.

Webmaster@filetek.com
Legal notices and trademark attributions