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| McDATA Announces the Availability of SANavigator 4.0, EFCM 8.0 With a Common Platform
McDATA Announces the Availability of SANavigator 4.0, EFCM 8.0 With a Common Platform; New Versions Are Open, Multi-Vendor, Multi-Protocol, Scalable and Growth-Ready BROOMFIELD, Colo. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2003--McDATA(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT), the expert provider of multi-capable storage networking solutions, today announced the release of SANavigator 4.0 and OEM qualification beginning this quarter of EFCM 8.0, McDATA's OEM product. BizVantage – Beyond the news: when knowing counts. The upgraded storage network management software solutions now share a common platform. OEMs, end-users and resellers will all receive a range of benefits including flexibility, scalability and multi-vendor capability. "SANavigator 4.0 and EFCM 8.0 demonstrate that McDATA understands and has effectively responded to the demands of large and midrange customers. The new products provide open, scalable and customizable storage management that delivers exceptional functionality in an integrated, modular fashion within the context of a comprehensive framework," said Nancy Marrone, senior analyst, The Enterprise Storage Group. The platform enables the use of key-activated services modules, which McDATA's storage OEM partners can utilize at their option to strengthen their storage management offerings, while end users gain a set of services that enable their IT organizations to offer a storage service utility. The optional modules available for EFCM 8.0 OEM customers include: Performance Monitoring, enabling identification of over- and under-utilized ports; Event Management, providing automation of routine tasks; Open Fabric Management, establishing multi-vendor discovery; Planning, enabling design of a scalable, customized storage network; and LUN Management, supplying data security and manual provisioning. EFCM 8.0 for OEMs inherits new features from SANavigator 4.0, including: multi-vendor capability; user defined groups and views; improved import/export; centralized device list; and greater scalability. SANavigator 4.0 gains new features from EFCM 8.0, including: show route; McDATA element manager launch; and FICON CUP server management. In keeping with McDATA's commitment to an open, multi-vendor, scalable, highly manageable storage network environment, SANavigator 4.0 supports Cisco's MDS product line. "McDATA's SANavigator enables me to easily monitor my multi-vendor SAN environment. The basic setup was easy. And, when I needed additional functionality, the additional services modules have been straightforward to obtain and have worked well to solve my expansion and monitoring needs. This is a great storage system solution," said Hubert Daugherty, Info Technology Specialist, Education Technology, Rice University. About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT) is the expert provider of Multi-Capable Storage Networking Solutions(TM) -- hardware, software and services -- that enable partners and customers around the world to reduce the total cost of storage management today, and be ready to adapt to the real-time information demands of tomorrow. Entrenched in over 8,000 data centers worldwide, McDATA solutions are at the heart of more than 80 percent of Fortune 100 storage network data centers, powering the latest e-business applications, customer databases, financial traffic and other mission-critical data. Customers leverage McDATA's multi-capable solutions to realize immediate cost savings, reduce their investment risk, ensure the continuity of their operations and adapt to changing business requirements. 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, our ability to ramp SANavigator sales, our relationships with EMC Corporation and IBM and the level of their orders, the impact of the continued general economic slowdown on purchasing decisions by customers and capital spending, our ability to complete the successful implementation of an "outsourcing-focused" manufacturing model, our ability to expand sales into higher margin channels through system integrators and distributors, a loss of any of our key customers (or our OEMs' key customers), distributors, resellers or our contract manufacturers, our ability to expand our product offerings and any transition to new products (such as higher port count and multi-protocol products) and OEM qualification of such new products which may occur after the general availability dates, possible inventory charges that may occur with any transition to such new products, component quality and availability, the development of the storage area network and switch markets, competition in the storage area network and switch markets, aggressive pricing and product give-aways by competitors, one-time events and other important risk factors disclosed previously and from time to time in our filings at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These cautionary statements by us should not be construed as exhaustive or as any admission regarding the adequacy of disclosures made by us. We cannot always predict or determine after the fact what factors would cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements or other statements. All cautionary statements should be read as being applicable to all forward-looking statements wherever they appear. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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