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To: J Fieb who wrote (1259)	5/18/1999 10:05:00 AM
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Comprehensive Solutions for Fibre Channel Storage Area Networking (SAN) COMPAREX to Ship McDATA Fibre Channel Fabric Products in Europe BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- McDATA Corporation, the Enterprise Fibre Channel Company, today announced that Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH is shipping McDATA's industry-leading McDATA ED-5000 Enterprise Fibre Channel Director and EFC Management software with its comprehensive, high-availability Fibre Channel Storage Area Network solutions for enterprise computing in Europe. In a COMPAREX March 18 CeBIT announcement, Karl-Heinz Knapp, director of Comparex Enterprise Storage stated, "Large enterprises require fast, reliable and highly scalable data transport systems, enabling them to increase both efficiency and productivity. These products are the ideal extension for the integration of the highly successful TETRAGON 2100 and Open Systems D1200/1400 storage products in Fibre Channel-based SAN solutions." Explosive growth in data volumes and the increased complexity of client/server systems require that previously distributed data pools are integrated in a manageable centralized storage solution. Fibre Channel technology provides the basis for the solution to this challenge. This technology, in combination with Storage Area Networking, makes complex distributed systems more manageable and provides higher performance across storage networks enabling enterprises to consolidate storage resources and to control the TCO (total cost of ownership). Fibre Channel is a high- performance ANSI standard interface that is supported by the worldwide Fibre Channel Association that includes Comparex, McDATA and other leading storage and system vendors. Fibre Channel offers the same standard to Open System as ESCON to Mainframe. Prerequisite for a comprehensive and efficient SAN solution is extensive expertise in the areas of networking and fiber-optical technology. Comparex is well positioned to consolidate enterprise storage with Storage Area Networking. The company has for many years, Europe-wide, supported large enterprises with leading ESCON fiber-optical technology products, expertise and migration services. With this wealth of experience in the implementation of large and complex cabling infrastructures, Comparex is best positioned to partner users seeking to implement Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks. "The McDATA Director is the only Fibre Channel switching device today that provides the same robust, high-availability operations at the enterprise level as the ESCON Director does in the mainframe environment," pointed out Mike Klayko, McDATA's executive vice president of sales and marketing. Comparex is a logical partner to McDATA's networking franchise given its focus on the enterprise. Mike added, "We're pleased that Comparex has elected to position the Director at the center of its storage network backbone strategy for use in the datacenter." About McDATA McDATA Corporation is the leading supplier of datacenter networking systems, including Director and switch products for use in enterprise storage applications. McDATA offers enterprise-class solutions for open systems that include datacenter-centric, enterprise-wide network management for the complete line. McDATA's high-availability ED-5000 Enterprise Fibre Channel Director is the exclusive switching element of EMC's Enterprise Storage Networks and Amdahl's Storage Area Networks. McDATA's end-to-end solutions provide IT organizations with the tools and methodologies to implement robust storage area networks. Headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, McDATA has more than 300 employees worldwide. Information about McDATA can be found at www.mcdata.com. About COMPAREX Comparex is a leading European vendor of storage solutions for both Mainframe and Open Systems environments with a history of 30 years' experience in the area of storage products, management and integration and is the leading ESCON OEM-Partner in Europe. The TETRAGON 2100 and the OpenLine D1400 RAID storage systems provides users of popular UNIX brands and NT with unique and powerful solutions combining ultra-high performance with extensive connectivity, the highest standards of availability, large capacities and user-friendly management. News releases and other information are available via www.comparex.de. McDATA and the McDATA logo are registered trademarks of McDATA Corp. LightPulse is a trademark of Emulex Corp. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners. SOURCE McDATA Corporation