Loudeye Delivers More Digital Music Worldwide Thanks to StorageTek's Information Lifecycle Management Solutions

Loudeye Delivers More Digital Music Worldwide Thanks to
StorageTek's Information Lifecycle Management Solutions
Digital Media Solutions Provider Manages Archive of More than 4.5 Million
Digital Music Files 


LOUISVILLE, Colo., Aug. 25  /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the growing demand
for digital music services and stores from consumer brand companies, wireless
operators, service providers, media and entertainment companies and online
retailers, Loudeye Corp. (NASDAQ:LOUD), the worldwide leader in
business-to-business digital media solutions, looked to maximize the speed,
efficiency, volume and capacity of its digital media processing, management and
distribution services.

With the help of information lifecycle management solutions from StorageTek(R)
(Storage Technology Corporation, NYSE: STK), the leading provider of enterprise
information lifecycle management, Loudeye has migrated its entire archive of
digital music to an optimized online system, and as a result, can provide
instant and automated processing of digital media files in any format or size
to its customers around the world.

Loudeye provides complete turnkey digital music stores for more than 35
customers in 15 countries.  Loudeye's media operations center houses the
world's largest commercial archive of digital music stored in uncompressed .WAV
format.  To date, the company has delivered tens of millions of digital media
files and more than one billion music clips to customers worldwide.

As more companies from around the world seek to create and launch digital music
experiences for their customers, they increasingly rely on Loudeye's digital
media operations center and global digital media infrastructure to support
their media businesses.  In order to achieve worldwide scalability, Loudeye
requires a storage solution and strategy that can manage high volumes of audio
and video content to meet the needs of its rapidly growing customer base.

Using StorageTek's vast portfolio of information lifecycle management
solutions, which manages information from its creation until its deletion on
the most cost effective and appropriate storage media available, Loudeye has
added more than 200 terabytes of storage, enabling real-time encoding and
pushing the company's total aggregate storage capacity to nearly one petabyte.

Additionally, since certain aspects of Loudeye's archive have varying technical
requirements for storage, management and protection, StorageTek is able to keep
the most current and popular music files highly accessible on its disk
solutions while housing older, less popular content across offline machines. 
Further, using five of StorageTek's D280 high-end, enterprise- class, full 2Gb
Fibre Channel storage systems, Loudeye has been able to efficiently deliver
content to its global partners, helping them come to market quickly in the
rapidly evolving digital media marketplace.  In addition to StorageTek's disk
solutions, Loudeye also leverages three StorageTek PowderHorn(R) tape libraries
for near-line access of archived audio files, data backup and disaster
recovery.

"Companies seeking to participate in the burgeoning digital music marketplace
demand access to an end-to-end global digital media platform that enables them
to quickly launch a compelling consumer offering," said Joe Baldini, vice
president of IT at Loudeye.  "StorageTek's information lifecycle management
solutions have helped us expand and grow without having to constantly re-invest
in our storage solutions.  By creating storage tiers, StorageTek's solutions
have helped us create a utility model for storage, allowing us to focus on
expanding our business and enhancing the performance of our existing digital
music infrastructure."

"With this announcement, information lifecycle management pioneer StorageTek is
clearly demonstrating that its information lifecycle management solutions are
here today, viable and installable, and not simply a blueprint or roadmap for
the future," said Ed Broderick, principal business analyst with the Robert
Frances Group based in Westport, Conn.  "Considering the massive amounts of
storage involved, StorageTek is also proving that it is a force to be reckoned
with in the storage industry and that it has the products and solutions that
scale very well in the high capacity/high performance IT marketplace."

About StorageTek

StorageTek is a $2 billion global company that enables businesses, through its
information lifecycle management strategy, to align the cost of storage with
the value of information.  The company's innovative storage solutions manage
the complexity and growth of information, lower costs, improve efficiency and
protect investments.  For more information, see http://www.storagetek.com/, or
call 1.800.877.9220 or 303.673.5151.

TRADEMARKS: StorageTek and the StorageTek logo are registered trademarks of
Storage Technology Corporation.  Other names mentioned may be trademarks of
Storage Technology Corporation or other vendors/manufacturers.

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