AMD's German Manufacturing Facility Ensures Production Uptime with Ultra-High Availability McDATA SAN Solution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BROOMFIELD, Colo. & OTTOBRUNN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2003 McDATA storage network ensuring constant availability to protect wafer production McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT MCDT Micro Credit Development Trust SACCO (Uganda microfinance) MCDT Microsoft Certified Desktop Technician ), the expert provider of multi-capable storage networking solutions, announced today that it has implemented four storage area networks (SANs) at AMD's microprocessor wafer manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany. AMD's $2.4 billion plant produces about 5,000 wafers per week. AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. selected McDATA's ultra-high availability Intrepid 6000 Series Directors to protect against costly chip production outages that could result in millions of euros in damages. The company's IT staff phased in the four fabrics taking great care to deploy inherently redundant devices and connections to ensure there were no single points of failure. "We wanted an easy-to-manage SAN that delivers the highest availability we could find, and that's what we got," said Dr. Steffen Steidten, AMD, Dresden IT systems engineer. "The McDATA Intrepid Directors are easy to use and have exceeded our availability expectations. That's really important to us considering the prohibitive costs of downtime in our manufacturing environment." In addition to meeting stringent availability standards, AMD's new SANs have substantially simplified the scalability of their fabrics to meet current and future needs. The new topology replaces an inflexible direct-attached storage Direct-attached storage (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between. It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non-networked storage from SAN and NAS. architecture previously deployed. "Besides very high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , we selected McDATA's Intrepid Director because it is easy to manage and has a high port density count," Steidten said. "They can be configured and scaled very quickly and we don't have to constantly monitor them." A third major consideration was seamless interoperability with legacy devices. Recalled Steidten, "Interoperability was a decisive factor Noun 1. decisive factor - a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively clincher causal factor, determinant, determining factor, determinative, determiner - a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of in selecting the Intrepid Directors. We needed to be assured that all the devices would work together." "The world's leading technology companies chose McDATA because of our commitment to high-availability, flexibility, and maximizing IT resources," said Georg Bartz, managing director of International Sales for McDATA. "By providing easy-to-manage, interoperable SANs that enable data to be constantly available, we help our customers ensure their businesses are secure and successful." About AMD Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , AMD (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD) is a global supplier of integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, Flash memory devices, and silicon-based solutions for communications and networking applications. For more AMD news and product information, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/index.html. Additional press releases are available at www.amd.com/news/news.html. About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA/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 en·trench also in·trench v. en·trenched, en·trench·ing, en·trench·es v.tr. 1. To provide with a trench, especially for the purpose of fortifying or defending. 2. 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 forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. 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 EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and the level of their orders, the impact of the continued general economic slowdown on purchasing decisions by customers and capital spending capital spending Spending for long-term assets such as factories, equipment, machinery, and buildings that permits the production of more goods and services in future years. , 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 (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and 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. 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