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Unified Storage Services Offering Delivers
Enhanced Support for Mainframe and Open Systems Environments
McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT), a leading
provider of data access solutions, today announced that Sun is
leveraging McDATA's technology and service capabilities as part of
Sun's Data Migration suite of services to support customers with ESCON
to FICON and data migration requirements.
"This is a good example of the strong customer benefits that can
be realized when McDATA's technology and best practices are integrated
into broader OEM services," said Costa Hasapopoulos, worldwide vice
president, solutions and services, McDATA. "Together, Sun and McDATA
are helping customers consolidate data to stretch their storage
investments further; and leverage FICON to gain greater performance
and availability, all in a cost-conscious manner."
The Sun ESCON to FICON Migration Service provides a 3-step process
that includes an initial migration workshop, architecture assessment
and implementation. The migration workshop allows customers to meet
with FICON experts to discuss and evaluate FICON technologies in the
context of the customers' specific environments. The workshop is
followed by an architecture assessment which provides in-depth
analysis, models performance of the new FICON environment and provides
a cost optimized migration plan. The process culminates with an
implementation of a FICON system. For additional ESCON to FICON
details go to http://sun.com/service/storage/e2f.xml or
http://www.mcdata.com/solutions/ficon/index.html.
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
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"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.
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