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Monday May 14, 8:03 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: McDATA Corporation
EMC to Sell McDATA's Expanded Family of Products; McDATA Announces Expansion of Relationship With EMC
BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- McDATA® Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDT - news, MCDTA - news), a global leader in open storage networking solutions, announced today that it has expanded its relationship with EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC - news), the world leader in information storage. EMC will sell McDATA's expanded family of products including its fibre-channel directors and fabric switches. EMC will continue to integrate McDATA management software into EMC's Connectrix Manager.
The expanded relationship enables EMC to sell McDATA's recently announced Galaxy-Class ED-6064 Director as the EMC Connectrix ED-64M director, which is at the core of the industry's storage area network infrastructure and offers the highest port count of any non-blocking single stage switching architecture, 99.999% high availability, fail over logic, hot code load and activation and redundant power and cooling throughout. The Galaxy-ClassED- 6064 Director also provides a 200 percent improvement in rack density over competitive products. Under this agreement, EMC will also sell McDATA's ES-3032 and ES-3016 fabric switches as the EMC Connectrix DS-32M and DS-16M, respectively, which are targeted for the mid-range environment and incorporate many of the high availability features of the director products.
``This expanded relationship allows us to extend McDATA's family of products across our full line of Symmetrix® and CLARiiON(TM) storage systems,'' said Chuck Hollis, EMC's senior director of product marketing. ``Incorporating McDATA's products into our offerings widens EMC's already substantial lead in networked storage and provides customers additional options as they plan and expand their information storage networks.''
``EMC and McDATA have enjoyed a successful three-year relationship, delivering strategic products central to the networked storage explosion. EMC was the first OEM to market McDATA's ED-5000 Director -- selling it as the EMC Connectrix ED-1032 -- capitalizing on customer needs for creating highly available and scalable storage networks,'' said Mike Gustafson, McDATA vice president of worldwide sales. ``Now they're embracing McDATA's expanded family of products -- another giant step in extending our long standing relationship well into the future of storage.''
McDATA's current family of products and software include the ED-6064 Galaxy-Class Director, the ED-5000 Director, that established the core storage networking backbone in more than 50 percent of the Fortune 100 companies, the ES-3032 and ES-3016 Fabric Switches, departmental products that encompasses many of the high availability features found in data center offerings; as well as McDATA's Enterprise Fabric Connectivity (EFC) Manager, a software solution that enables IT managers to manage all switched components from a single console.
About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDT - news, MCDTA - news) is a global leader in open storage networking solutions and provides highly available, scalable and centrally managed storage area networks (SANs) that address enterprise-wide storage problems. McDATA's enterprise-to-edge SAN solutions improve the reliability and availability of data to simplify SAN management and reduce the total cost of ownership. McDATA extensively pre-tests its solutions to provide IT organizations with the comprehensive tools, methodologies and support essential to robust SAN implementation. McDATA distributes its products through its OEMs, network of resellers and Elite Solution Partners. McDATA and the McDATA logo are registered trademarks of McDATA Corporation. |
