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ResourcesHKS, Inc. selects the Green Tech Storage option, TeraStack® SolutionReducing Storage Footprint by 75 PercentApril 10, 2008 Dallas, TX - For the first time in the architectural/engineering/construction industry, Hie Electronics, Inc. announces the sales of its TeraStack® Solution product to HKS, Inc., a top-three international architecture and engineering firm. Multiple TeraStack® products installed at the Dallas headquarters of HKS are being used for electronic storage and archiving of business critical project and image data files. The TeraStack® Solution is considered the leading green tech data processing and storage product. Nationwide there is a focus on decreasing IT data center electric power use, which the Environmental Protection Agency recently discussed in a report to Congress. The EPA reports that 2 percent of our nation's electrical energy grid is consumed annually by data centers. The TeraStack® Solution significantly reduces environmental requirements of data centers and large business or government data storage users. "As a leading designer of green architecture, addressing our own data storage requirement with a green solution was the way to go," said Rod Lanham, AIA, vice president/director of IT, HKS, Inc. "The physical footprint of the TeraStack® Solution is only 1/4 rack in size and requires the same amount of electricity as a personal computer eliminating the space, power and hard disk drive recycling requirements typical of major data storage arrays." "The social, environmental and economic impact of our highly green product is significant. The TeraStack Solution extends and expands data storage for users with long-term and large data object size storage demands like HKS which completes nearly $5 billion in construction every year," said Pat Humm, CEO of Hie Electronics. "Being a multi-billion dollar architectural firm, with 200 to 300 projects active at one time, it is important to have near line (or searchable and accessible) data for easy access," said Lanham. "This is even more important with the advent of 3D BIM technology with its increasing file sizes. For a major project, the file size can be upwards of 50-plus gigabytes instead of the average file size of less than two megabytes." The TeraStack® Solution offers 50 terabytes (extendable) of online, near line and offline storage using a thousand Blu-ray discs in a structured optical solution. The scalability (into multiple petabytes) of the TeraStack® Solution provides for rapidly expanding data level storage and allows for ample room for future application growth. The product does not require a dedicated data storage room or back-up of traditional RAID. "The TeraStack® Solution is a stand-alone product in the market place and we expect to see it in several large data applications," said Dilip Sarangan, Frost & Sullivan industry analyst. In 2007, the TeraStack® Solution was named Product Innovation of the Year in the North American video surveillance market. About Hie Electronics Hie Electronics is located in McKinney, Texas and is the innovator of the TeraStack® Solution, a 50 terabyte "green" optical data storage device useable in a variety of applications where exponential storage is required. The TeraStack® Solution significantly reduces power consumption and cooling costs in comparison to traditional storage devices. Hie Electronics manufactures and sells its TeraStack® Solution to commercial users and government agencies for security applications, medical imaging and healthcare data and other data retention requirements. About HKS, Inc. HKS, Inc. is a leading architectural design firm ranked among the top-three architectural/engineering firms, according to Building Design & Construction magazine. Since its founding in 1939, HKS has completed construction projects totaling more than $45 billion in more than 900 cities located in 46 states, the District of Columbia, and 54 foreign countries. Headquartered in Dallas, the firm has 23 worldwide offices. For more information, please visit
www.HKSinc.com
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