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FileTek Enters Latin American Market; Appoints PHD Brasil as Distributor - PHD Will Market, Integrate, and
Support Domestic FileTek Installations

San Paulo, Brazil (April 16, 2002) - FileTek, Inc., a data storage and access management systems provider today announced that it has signed a Distributor Agreement with PHD Brasil Ltda., a leading integrator of large data warehousing systems that support Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software applications. The agreement was announced here during the Business Intelligence 2002 conference at the Amcham Convention Center.

Under the agreement, PHD will hold the Brazilian rights to market, distribute, integrate, and support all FileTek products, including the company's StorHouse® data management software product. This accord signals FileTek's entrance into the Latin American high technology market.

PHD, founded in 1989, specializes in building large data management systems within the UNIX, Windows® NT, and mainframe environments. With a team of top-level professionals, the company provides various services to companies such as Banco do Brasil, Telefonica Celular, Banco Itaú, and Brasil Telecom. PHD also offers consulting from a group of highly regarded BI and CRM experts, such as Bill Inmon, Partner of Billinmon.com, to advise their current and potential clients.

"We are very optimistic about FileTek's success within the Brazilian market," said Luiz Pizani, President of PHD. "They possess a range of premium clients and have come highly recommended to us by experts within the data management field. PHD is pleased to be FileTek's representative in Brazil."

"PHD is a key component in our strategy to increase FileTek's presence outside North America," said Bill Thompson, FileTek's President and CEO. "We enter Brazil, building on our current business in Europe and South Africa, with a prestigious local leader that provides high-end data management solutions. FileTek looks forward to working with them on our common goals."

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 +1 301-517-1823.

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: +1 301-251-0600.
Fax: +1 301-251-1990.
Internet: www.filetek.com.

About PHD (Brasil)
PHD (Brasil) Ltda. markets and integrates various high-end system products and provides consulting services that support CRM and BI. It specializes in data warehousing, web warehousing, and large-scale data management. PHD is headquartered at Rua Eng. Antonio Jovino, 220-3 andar, Morumbi-São Paulo - 05727-220, Brasil.

Telephone/FAX: +55 (11) 3744-1600.
Internet: www.phdbrasil.com.br.


©2002 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.

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