McDATA Expands North American Coverage With Opening of Toronto Sales Office
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- McDATA® Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA - news, MCDT - news), the worldwide leader in open storage networking solutions, has expanded its market in North America with the opening of a sales office in Ontario, Canada. McDATA's new sales office joins an engineering site, which is also located in Toronto.
``While McDATA has had a considerable engineering and development presence in Canada for several years, this investment in a sales office reflects the demands of the market to have direct presence from the market leader in world class storage networking products,'' said Mike Gustafson, vice president of worldwide sales for McDATA. ``This expanded presence in Toronto will allow us to strengthen the partnerships we have with our customers, OEM resellers and further extend our reach into the Canadian SAN market. McDATA will continue to provide customers with the flexibility and value they need to mitigate the risk of their storage networking technology while taking full advantage of their investment.''
McDATA's full family of core-to-edge enterprise products is available in Canada through the company's industry alliances with EMC, IBM, Compaq, Hitachi Data Systems and Hewlett-Packard Company, as well as through McDATA's authorized distributors Consan and Moca (both divisions of Gates Arrow) and authorized Elite Partners.
``All told, only McDATA and its partners can provide core-to-edge enterprise solutions with a common management platform to bring customers the benefits, and therefore accelerated return on investment, of implementing storage network infrastructures,'' said Richard Search, vice president of marketing for McDATA.
For McDATA sales information in Canada, contact Brian Monteith, district manager, at (416) 496-6525.
About McDATA ( www.mcdata.com )
McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA - news, MCDT - news) is the worldwide 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 core-to-edge enterprise 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.
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