EMC to Offer New Brocade Storage Area Network Director Brocade SilkWorm(R) 24000 Joins EMC Connectrix(TM) Family
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Mon Apr 26 08:02:00 2004 EST
NEW YORK, Storage Decisions, Apr 26, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
EMC
Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information storage and
management, and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade(R))
(Nasdaq: BRCD), the world's leading provider of infrastructure solutions for
Storage Area Networks (SANs), today announced that EMC(R) will offer the
Brocade SilkWorm(R) 24000 Director as a member of the EMC Connectrix(TM)
family of directors and switches. The new EMC Connectrix ED-24000B Director
extends EMC's portfolio of leading storage solutions that help customers
better manage their information throughout its lifecycle.
Designed to the most stringent enterprise data center requirements, the
new EMC Connectrix ED-24000B supports 128 ports in a single domain at
2 Gbit/sec, and features hot code activation as well as fully redundant power
supplies, fans and control processors. The EMC Connectrix ED-24000B Director
is initially qualified by EMC for Fibre Channel with planned future support
for FICON. Additional protocols such as FCIP and iSCSI can be offered through
the addition of future expansion blades. (For more information, see today's
Brocade news release: "Brocade Introduces New SilkWorm 24000 Director"). The
EMC Connectrix ED-24000B Director with Fibre Channel connectivity will be
generally available on May 3.
"The EMC Connectrix family of directors and switches are a core component
of a customer's information lifecycle management strategy," said Chuck Hollis,
EMC's Vice President of Platforms Marketing. "We subject every SAN switch and
director we support to the most rigorous testing in the industry to ensure the
widest range of compatibility and the highest levels of reliability. The new
EMC Connectrix ED-24000B is a strong addition to EMC's family of enterprise
directors with the features, performance and reliability to help customers
deploy a flexible and dynamic IT infrastructure."
"With its position as a leader in open, interoperable storage networks,
EMC places a premium on the commitment to support its customer's investment in
infrastructure throughout multiple generations of technology," said
Tom Buiocchi, Brocade Vice President of Marketing. "We've designed the new
SilkWorm Director with that same commitment and we are delivering a platform
that promises long-term investment protection and flexibility to accommodate
technology changes."
About EMC
EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services and solutions
for information storage and management that help organizations extract the
maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every
point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC's products and
services can be found at www.EMC.com.
About Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Brocade offers the industry's leading intelligent platform for networking
storage. The world's leading systems, applications, and storage vendors have
selected Brocade to provide a networking foundation for their SAN solutions.
The Brocade SilkWorm(R) family of fabric switches and software is designed to
optimize data availability and storage and server resources in the enterprise.
Using Brocade solutions, companies can simplify the implementation of storage
area networks, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage
environments, and improve network and application efficiency. For more
information, visit the Brocade website at www.brocade.com or contact the
company at info@brocade.com.
NOTE: Brocade, the Brocade B weave logo, Secure Fabric OS, and SilkWorm
are registered trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the
United States and/or in other countries. EMC is a registered trademark and
Connectrix is a trademark of EMC Corporation. FICON is a registered trademark
of IBM Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other brands,
products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of, and
are used to identify, products or services of their respective owners.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the
Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those
projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk
factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general
economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information
technology spending; (iii) risks associated with acquisitions and investments,
including the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving
anticipated synergies; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to
pricing pressures; (v) the relative and varying rates of product price and
component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services
revenues; (vi) component quality and availability; (vii) the transition to new
products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and
rapid technological and market change; (viii) insufficient, excess or obsolete
inventory; (ix) war or acts of terrorism; (x) the ability to attract and
retain highly qualified employees; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates;
and (xii) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed
previously and from time to time in EMC's or Brocade's filings with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC and Brocade disclaim any obligation
to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
SOURCE Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Leslie Davis, Media Relations, +1-408-333-5260, or
lmdavis@brocade.com, or Shirley Stacy, Investor Relations, +1-408-333-5752, or
sstacy@brocade.com, both of Brocade; or Rick Lacroix, Media Relations of EMC,
+1-508-293-7261, or lacroix_rick@emc.com
emc.com
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