Spiegel Group Purchased Three FileTek StorHouse Systems

FileTek,
Inc., a provider of large-scale data management, big data storage
virtualization, and active archive solutions, announced that the Spiegel Group, which publishes the
largest European news magazine, Der Spiegel, selected StorHouse for media and entertainment as its new online digital active archive.

The StorHouse-managed archive will store, manage, back up, and protect all of
the Spiegel Group’s media content, including traditional print and online mixed
media (print and video), while providing its journalists and editors with
timely online access to all digital assets.

The Spiegel Group purchased three StorHouse systems, two for HA and resilience,
and one for DR purposes. By leveraging the StorHouse capability to blend disk and tape as part of scaled-out NAS storage with the
many StorHouse automated data and storage management features, the Spiegel
Group will benefit from lower storage management costs and ensured nformation delivery to the its user communities.

Robert Kiehne, group leader, IT systems management
at the Spiegel Group, remarked: "Digital
content is the Spiegel Group’s most valuable asset, and consequently, our
proposed online active archive project has many demanding specifications. These
include long-term asset protection, ensured data integrity throughout the
content lifecycle, scalability to accommodate future growth, cost-effective
environmentally friendly storage options such as tape, direct and timely online
access to all content, and simplified system administration, including data
migration. Based on our research, only StorHouse from FileTek met all these
stringent requirements. Moreover, StorHouse is an extremely cost-effective
solution that provides a significant ROI."

"All the publications produced by the Spiegel
Group are based on outstanding journalistic quality and independent reporting,"
stated Gary Szukalski, president of FileTek. "As such, we are proud to welcome the Spiegel Group as a FileTek
customer and pleased that the Spiegel Group chose StorHouse for its online big
data digital archive project. StorHouse gives the Spiegel Group all the
features it needs to succeed, including automated content validation and
repair, native file format backup, virtually unlimited scalability, and the
flexibility to add future systems with minimal effort. The ultimate benefits
are unmatched data assurance and access at the lowest cost per terabyte of
storage. We and our German integration partner, Itiso,
look forward to working with the Spiegel Group IT team to deliver a
first-class, online digital archive service."