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FileTek Participates on Lockheed Martin Team to Provide Archival Storage Expertise for U.S. National Archives $308 Million Electronic Records Archive Project - FileTek Data Management Capabilities Ensure the Reliability, Longevity, Scalability, Recoverability, and Integrity of Large, Long-Term Digital Archives

Rockville, MD (October 11, 2005) - The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently awarded a $308 million contract to develop and deploy a multi-petabyte Electronic Records Archives (ERA) system to a team led by Lockheed Martin. FileTek, Inc., a data access and management software provider, will serve as a subcontractor on this ERA project.

Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, announced the award in September following a yearlong design competition that incorporated FileTek's StorHouse® product. The archive ultimately will store and protect all electronic records produced by the federal government, thus creating an accessible and persistent cultural record of our nation's digital history. FileTek's primary role in this six-year project is to provide the archival storage expertise that will enable the reliability, longevity, scalability, recoverability, protection, and integrity of the NARA archive.

For more than 20 years, FileTek has provided data storage and management services to corporations and government agencies worldwide. Currently, StorHouse is a key component of the ongoing digital preservation initiative at The National Archives of the United Kingdom, the oldest archive in the English-speaking world.

StorHouse is a comprehensive data storage and access management system specifically designed to administer massive amounts of structured and unstructured historical data, fixed content, and their associated backups. StorHouse technology combines an automatically managed virtual hierarchy of industry-leading scalable storage devices and Open System processors with specialized software components that provide storage management, relational database management, and file system interface support.

StorHouse software components are engineered to support persistent archives such as the ERA initiative. StorHouse/SM, the StorHouse storage management component, promotes data longevity through storage virtualization and automatic storage management. StorHouse can accept new storage devices and media types dynamically as they become available and migrate existing data to them automatically and transparently to user applications. The system remains storage vendor independent by incorporating best-of-breed, available technology from multiple suppliers. Furthermore, to promote high data availability and business continuance, StorHouse/SM supports automatic backup, recovery, migration, replication, retention, and data protection features.

StorHouse/RFS, the StorHouse file system interface component used for digital archiving applications, provides the unprecedented scalability required to support billions of ERA objects. Unlike traditional file systems, StorHouse/RFS provides inherent scalability by using relational technology instead of inode- and link-based structures to index and locate user files. With StorHouse/RFS, ease of use is paramount. The software simply presents itself to an application as a virtual drive (an NFS, NTFS, or CIFS mount or share point). Applications read and write files to the virtual drive just as they would to any mapped Windows® drive or network file system (NFS) mount point.

Sherman Schorzman, FileTek's Vice President of Solutions Technology and Systems Engineering, commented, "FileTek is honored to be a member of Lockheed Martin's ERA team. Helping to create a multi-petabyte archive that preserves and protects our nation's digital history is a significant responsibility that we accept and approach with added readiness, determination, resolve, and commitment. Our proven approach to data management and archival storage expertise will contribute added value to the ERA initiative. We look forward to working with NARA and the Lockheed Martin team to bring this critical project to fruition."

About FileTek
FileTek, Inc. is a provider of data storage and access management solutions, 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. FileTek's international headquarters, FileTek UK Limited, 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.

About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin employs about 130,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, and integration of advanced technology systems, products, and services. Internet: http://www.lockheedmartin.com

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