McDATA Reaches Services Milestone

  
    
  
  
    
      McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT), a leading provider of 
      data access solutions, today announced its professional services group 
      has reached the 300+ milestone for data center moves. IT managers who 
      need to relocate their data centers can turn to McDATA Corporation to 
      ensure a smooth, trouble-free transition.
    
    
      McDATA’s experienced services team can help IT 
      managers assess whether a move would make sense. If a move is necessary, 
      customers can engage McDATA services for best-practices guidance in 
      executing the migration, or may choose to use McDATA services to manage 
      every aspect of the move. Utilizing the experience of McDATA’s 
      team reduces the time required to make the move and lowers the risk of 
      data loss or corruption. Additionally, McDATA services can help IT 
      managers, like Ardent Health Services' Tim Beasley, plan for future 
      storage and SAN migration and consolidation, for additional investment 
      protection over time.
    
    
      “It quickly became apparent that in order to 
      meet the company’s business objectives, and 
      reduce TCO around data center operations, we had to make a quick change 
      in course with respect to the overall project management of our 
      initiative,” said Beasley, Ardent Health 
      Services’ director of operations and support. “Relocating 
      hardware that supports mission-critical, 24/7 medical applications is 
      not a trivial task. Porting an existing implementation presented new 
      challenges in coordination of both internal IT resources and business 
      partner resources.”
    
    
      Each migration is unique so McDATA services tailors every project to the 
      specific needs of the customer. To date, McDATA has helped more than 100 
      companies overcome challenges such as short time frames and the need to 
      support non-stop operations. These services allow customers to reduce 
      move times and improve accuracy, lowering their risk. McDATA can also 
      provide a pool of swing equipment as well as temporary or permanent 
      telecommunications bandwidth to implement and execute the relocation.
    
    
      “McDATA is the only vendor in the storage 
      networking market today to provide comprehensive data center relocations,” 
      said McDATA Chief Operating Officer Todd Oseth. “McDATA 
      is committed to providing products and services that give customers 
      easier access to data. More than 300 successful data center relocations 
      and a clear pattern of repeat business is a tremendous compliment that 
      we are indeed meeting and exceeding our customers' expectations."
    
    
      About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
    
    
      McDATA (Nasdaq:MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT) is the leading provider of storage 
      networking 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
    
    
      This press release contains statements about expected future 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, 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 Exchange Commission. These cautionary 
      statements by McDATA should not be construed as exhaustive or as any 
      admission regarding the adequacy of disclosures made by McDATA. All 
      cautionary statements should be read as being applicable to all 
      forward-looking statements wherever they appear. McDATA does not 
      undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any 
      forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, 
      future events or otherwise.
    
  
McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT), a leading provider
of data access solutions, today announced its professional services
group has reached the 300+ milestone for data center moves. IT
managers who need to relocate their data centers can turn to McDATA
Corporation to ensure a smooth, trouble-free transition.

   McDATA's experienced services team can help IT managers assess
whether a move would make sense. If a move is necessary, customers can
engage McDATA services for best-practices guidance in executing the
migration, or may choose to use McDATA services to manage every aspect
of the move. Utilizing the experience of McDATA's team reduces the
time required to make the move and lowers the risk of data loss or
corruption. Additionally, McDATA services can help IT managers, like
Ardent Health Services' Tim Beasley, plan for future storage and SAN
migration and consolidation, for additional investment protection over
time.

   "It quickly became apparent that in order to meet the company's
business objectives, and reduce TCO around data center operations, we
had to make a quick change in course with respect to the overall
project management of our initiative," said Beasley, Ardent Health
Services' director of operations and support. "Relocating hardware
that supports mission-critical, 24/7 medical applications is not a
trivial task. Porting an existing implementation presented new
challenges in coordination of both internal IT resources and business
partner resources."

   Each migration is unique so McDATA services tailors every project
to the specific needs of the customer. To date, McDATA has helped more
than 100 companies overcome challenges such as short time frames and
the need to support non-stop operations. These services allow
customers to reduce move times and improve accuracy, lowering their
risk. McDATA can also provide a pool of swing equipment as well as
temporary or permanent telecommunications bandwidth to implement and
execute the relocation.

   "McDATA is the only vendor in the storage networking market today
to provide comprehensive data center relocations," said McDATA Chief
Operating Officer Todd Oseth. "McDATA is committed to providing
products and services that give customers easier access to data. More
than 300 successful data center relocations and a clear pattern of
repeat business is a tremendous compliment that we are indeed meeting
and exceeding our customers' expectations."

   About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)

   McDATA (Nasdaq:MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT) is the leading provider of
storage networking 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

   This press release contains statements about expected future
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, 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 Exchange Commission. These
cautionary statements by McDATA should not be construed as exhaustive
or as any admission regarding the adequacy of disclosures made by
McDATA. All cautionary statements should be read as being applicable
to all forward-looking statements wherever they appear. McDATA does
not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.