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Office Certifies and Accepts Delivery of Rockville, MD (April 23, 2002) - FileTek, Inc., a data storage and access management systems provider, today announced that the Met Office (U.K.) has formally certified and accepted delivery of the Massive Archival Storage System (MASS) built and integrated by FileTek. The MASS installation, which includes FileTek's StorHouse® product, is designed to manage and provide SQL access to petabytes of relational and unstructured data, and was approved after strenuous testing and benchmarking. Currently, MASS is storing over 75 terabytes of data after successfully performing 175,000 operational tasks during testing. MASS is expected to archive and manage over one petabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000s of bytes) of data by 2005 and 2.5 petabytes by 2010. In 2001, MASS won the Process Innovation Award from Kinetic Information, a research and professional services firm that provides business consulting on technology matters. The MASS installation supports several major users including the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, which the British government has tasked since 1990 to investigate the changing global climate. The Hadley Centre continually collects weather data from the worldwide network of automatic and manned observation stations. Then by analyzing and feeding the collected mass of observational data into numerical weather prediction models, scientists predict-with increasing confidence-future global warming trends. "This system acceptance is a major milestone in our quest to make substantial amounts of meteorological data available to our scientists," said John Ponting, the Met Office's Chief Information Officer. "The MASS project has broken new boundaries in storage and data management, and we appreciate FileTek's strong commitment to ensure our success; we are pleased to accept the system, which is in line with our objective in retaining our position as a world-leading environmental information provider." "Working with the Met Office to accomplish this unique and special project has been particularly satisfying," said Ann Dyball, Regional Area Manager at FileTek U.K. Limited in London. "MASS is not only a technical achievement, but also a means to understand the issues of global warming. FileTek is proud to be a part of that undertaking." FileTek's flagship product, StorHouse, scales to virtually unlimited volumes of data storage and enables row-level access to that data, as well as associated binary objects, stored across all storage media (e.g., disk, optical, and 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 301-517-1823. 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 USA. Telephone: 301-251-0600. Fax: 301-251-1990.
The company's U.K. office is located at One Northumberland Ave., London About the Met Office ©2002 FileTek,
Inc. 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.
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