Customers Make McDATA The Highest Rated Storage Networking Vendor, According to Independent Research Firm; Company Earns Top Marks for Product Quality and Customer Fulfillment.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BROOMFIELD Broomfield can be: In the United Kingdom:
McDATA(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT MCDT Micro Credit Development Trust SACCO (Uganda microfinance) MCDT Microsoft Certified Desktop Technician ), the worldwide leader in open, ultra-high availability storage networking solutions, earned the highest overall rating among storage networking and storage management vendors in a recent study conducted by independent research firm, TheInfoPro (TIP). McDATA outranked all other storage and SAN vendors in the study, which interviewed 192 Global 2000 decision makers on their experiences and perceptions of each of the more than 40 companies involved. "Based on the nearly 200 in-depth interviews with companies such as J.P. Morgan Morgan, American family of financiers and philanthropists. Junius Spencer Morgan, 1813–90, b. West Springfield, Mass., prospered at investment banking. Chase, FedEx, General Motors and Visa, McDATA was the highest-rated company in meeting customer needs and for their product quality. In addition, the qualitative commentary received was very positive on their vision and roadmap," said Ken Male, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of TheInfoPro, the independent research firm that conducted the study. "McDATA's overall scores were very impressive, especially considering the fact that it was up against the biggest players in the storage industry. Earning the highest overall score among all other vendors in this test is a testament to McDATA's commitment to the customer, the quality of its product line and its proven track record of fulfilling on its promises." In reaching its conclusions, TIP interviewed 42 investors, in addition to the 192 storage professionals, to collect and analyze their feedback on future intentions, budget allocations, vendor relationships and investor confidence. McDATA outscored its nearest competitor in the SAN switch vendor category for Quality of Management, Business Strategy and Product Quality. And, McDATA garnered the top score of the entire study in the product quality category. "McDATA puts the needs and concerns of its customers' and stakeholders' first, and this study validates the success we've achieved in both arenas," said Mike Gustafson, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, McDATA. "The findings of TheInfoPro study are especially important to McDATA because they were directly derived from customer and investor feedback, through an independent study." About TheInfoPro TheInfoPro (TIP) is an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the Information Technology (IT) industry. Transparency (1) The quality of being able to see through a material. The terms transparency and translucency are often used synonymously; however, transparent would technically mean "seeing through clear glass," while translucent would mean "seeing through frosted glass." See alpha blending. is the core of TIP's research process with intelligence delivered without any spin, bias or intermediation. Clients include technology investors, providers and professionals. Based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , TIP maintains an ongoing dialogue with over 500 IT Professionals and technology investors. For more information visit www.TheInfoPro.net. About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA/MCDT) is the worldwide leader in open, ultra-high availability storage networking solutions and provides highly available, scalable and centrally managed storage area networks (SANs) that address enterprise-wide storage problems. McDATA's core-to-edge enterprise SAN solutions improve the reliability and availability of data to simplify SAN management and reduce the total cost of ownership. 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 For articles with similar titles, see Slow Down (disambiguation). A slowdown is an industrial action in which employees perform their duties but seek to reduce productivity or efficiency in their performance of these duties. 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 See systems integrator. 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. 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