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Reduces SAN Costs, While Improving SAN Design, Security and
Diagnostic Capabilities
Storage networking customers now have access to even greater SAN
design options, with McDATA Corporation's (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT)
new i10K Xtreme. Announced today, the i10K Xtreme is the first
director with Open VSANs, non-disruptive 4 Gb/s configuration
capabilities (added to previous 2 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s capabilities), SAN
LPARs for total SAN isolation, and Open Trunking for optimized
performance between directors and switches. McDATA's i10K Xtreme is
the only director that provides customers with a complete set of
features designed for flexible SAN design and easier management.
For customers who need absolute isolation (such as those with
regulatory compliance mandates or those requiring total isolation of
different departments or applications), SAN LPARs provide complete,
secure physical isolation. SAN LPARs are also designed to help
customers save management and capital costs by allowing mixed FICON
and Open Systems SAN LPARs within a single director chassis. When
absolute security and isolation are not necessary, customers can still
manage logically separate switches inside the i10K Xtreme, using Open
VSANs. Based on industry standards led by McDATA, Open VSANs allow
customers to easily add as little as a single port to an existing Open
VSAN, providing a cost-effective way to scale individual SANs.
New Open Trunking capabilities allow customers to optimize
performance across multiple inter-switch links (ISLs), of mixed
speeds, and to switches and devices from any vendor. Added
authentication and radius support for greater security allow customers
to lock down networks from accidental or malicious intrusions; and new
advanced diagnostics (like fibre channel ping and optic monitoring)
eliminate down time by preventing problems before they occur.
All of the i10K Xtreme's new features, and all of McDATA's
directors, are easier than ever to deploy and manage, with today's
announced availability of EFCM 9.0 -- a single, simplified platform
for heterogeneous SAN management (see press release titled: "McDATA
Launches Industry's First Unified Platform for Heterogeneous SAN
Management").
True to McDATA's commitment to investment protection, first
generation i10K customers can gain all the benefits of the i10K Xtreme
with simple software and bandwidth upgrades. Open VSAN, Open Trunking
and all of the i10K Xtreme's new diagnostic and security capabilities
are added with a firmware upgrade. 4 Gb/s line cards can be added,
non-disruptively, to any existing i10K or i10K Xtreme as customers'
high bandwidth storage subsystems, servers, and inter-switch links
requirements evolve.
"McDATA is committed to flexible SAN design and the highest levels
of network uptime," said Raj Das, vice president of product marketing,
McDATA. "McDATA continues to lead the industry in innovation and
customer investment protection with the McDATA i10K Xtreme."
McDATA's i10K Xtreme is available now from McDATA and independent
McDATA resellers. The i10K Xtreme will be available for EMC beginning
Sept. 15, 2006, and will be available from other OEM partners within
McDATA's Q3.
About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
McDATA (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT) is the leading provider of
data access solutions, helping customers build, globally connect,
optimize and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and
WAN environments. With nearly 25 years experience developing SAN
products, services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the
world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all
networked data.
Forward-Looking Statements
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events that are forward-looking and subject to risks and
uncertainties. Readers are urged to consider statements that include
the terms "believes," "belief," "expects," "plans," "objectives,"
"estimates," "anticipates," "intends," "targets," or the like to be
uncertain and forward-looking. Factors that could cause actual results
to differ and vary materially from expectations include, but are not
limited to, McDATA's relationships with EMC, IBM and Hitachi Data
Systems and the level of their orders, aggressive price competition by
numerous other SAN and IP switch suppliers, OEM qualification of our
new products -- such as the Intrepid 10000 Director, integration of
CNT's sales and marketing functions, manufacturing constraints,
constraints in obtaining third party product for resale and other risk
factors that are disclosed in McDATA's filings with the Securities and
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update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result
of new information, future events or otherwise.