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Sun customers looking to reap the benefits of FICON
while leveraging their existing investments in ESCON can now do so
with the availability of McDATA Corporation's (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq:
MCDT) Intrepid FICON Converter (IFC). When properly planned, and
executed, a FICON migration can bring tremendous technical,
management, and business improvements to a company.
"We can now provide native FICON connectivity to our customers who
use legacy ESCON Devices," said Nigel Dessau, vice president of
storage marketing and business operations, Sun Microsystems. "This
will protect our customers' existing investment in ESCON-based
resources while enabling seamless and cost-effective migration to
FICON."
Due to limitations in ESCON and new advancements in FICON
architectures, performance advantages and technical merits of FICON
over ESCON are now significant enough to justify ESCON to FICON
migration projects. Sun's new ESCON to FICON suite of services allows
customers a cost-effective solution to easily migrate to a
consolidated FICON environment. When combined with the Intrepid FICON
Converter, this solution provides the means to protect large
investments in ESCON devices, reducing maintenance expenses for ESCON
directors. Furthermore, it enhances performance, enables improved
disaster protection and better utilizes IT spending for connectivity
infrastructure.
"McDATA and Sun's strong partnership has enabled us to provide
FICON migration products and services that address the needs of
mainframe customers," said Chris Roberts, vice president of OEM
Channel Development, McDATA. "As experts in Enterprise mainframe
solutions and ESCON to FICON Data Migration we can complement Sun's
offering of top-level storage solutions."
About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
McDATA (NASDAQ Global Select: MCDTA)(NASDAQ Global Select: 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.
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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
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