British Public Record Office Awards FileTek UK Storage Contract for Digital Archive; FileTek's StorHouse Product to Manage Digital Repository.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2003 FileTek UK Ltd., a data management software developer and subsidiary of FileTek, Inc., announced today that it has been selected by the Public Record Office (PRO), the British national archives National Archives, official depository for records of the U.S. federal government, established in 1934 by an act of Congress. Although displeasure concerning the method of keeping national records was voiced in Congress as early as 1810, the United States continued , to provide a storage system that will support the PRO's digital preservation work. The system will be based on the company's StorHouse(R) software product. This was the second agreement awarded to FileTek by the British government. The Met Office (the British weather service) previously awarded a contract for similar software technology to support its scientific research. The PRO, which holds the United Kingdom's government and law court records from the eleventh century onwards, determined that it needed a way to archive the ubiquitous electronic documents produced today and in the future. The system, which is scheduled to begin service in 14 days, will support a new digital archive containing diverse files such as e-mails and their attachments, web site images, video clips A short video presentation. , and sound files. StorHouse will manage the digital files in the repository, which is archived on high-speed, high-capacity tape cartridges See cartridge. . Data on the cartridges is accessible through a web interface that provides timely access and retrieval to requested information. "As each year passes, more critical government records and legal documents are produced and stored in various electronic files," said David Ryan David Ryan is a stock investor who won the U.S. Investing Championship three times between 1985 and 1990. He is the protégé of William O'Neil. In July 1998 he founded Ryan Capital Management in Santa Monica, California, which is an investment advisory firm specializing in asset , the PRO's Head of Digital Preservation. "Now we will have a way to preserve this history in its native format for future generations, much like our predecessors did for us. We very much appreciate FileTek's help and contribution in supporting this critical PRO objective, as we know that large scale data storage and retrieval is key to the PRO digital archive, which must be capable of massive scalability, possibly into the 100s of terabytes." "FileTek is very pleased to be working with the PRO on this important and prestigious project," said Ann Dyball, FileTek UK's Regional Area Manager. "We are gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. by the PRO's confidence in our software and expertise and look forward to working together for many years to come." For the PRO installation, FileTek's Relational File System (RFS (Remote File System) A distributed file system for Unix computers introduced by AT&T in 1986 with Unix System V Release 3.0. It is similar to Sun's NFS, but only for Unix systems. ) technology will be used with StorHouse. This technology allows StorHouse to archive hundreds of millions of files and relationally access them. StorHouse can also extend a relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. onto alternative storage media and transparently integrate with the most popular databases, such as Oracle(R), DB2 UDB (DB2 Universal DataBase) An enhanced and very popular version of DB2 that combines relational and object database technology as well as various query optimization techniques for parallel processing. (TM), and SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. (TM). For more information, go to www.filetek.com, e-mail info@filetek.com, or call 301/517-1823. 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. FileTek UK Ltd. 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 located in Belgium and across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Internet: www.filetek.com (C)2003 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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