Dell'Oro Reports McDATA Market Share Growth; McDATA Gains Market Share in Director and Fixed Fabric Switches.BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT MCDT Micro Credit Development Trust SACCO (Uganda microfinance) MCDT Microsoft Certified Desktop Technician ), a leading provider of data infrastructure solutions, today announced it gained director and fabric switch market share in the first calendar quarter 2005 as reported by the Dell'Oro Group's "1Q05 Quarterly SAN Report." The study verified that McDATA gained share both sequentially and year-over-year in the fabric switch market, and gained share quarter-over-quarter in the director market. The continued traction Traction Definition Traction is the use of a pulling force to treat muscle and skeleton disorders. Purpose Traction is usually applied to the arms and legs, the neck, the backbone, or the pelvis. of McDATA's innovative FlexPort technology embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. in its Sphereon(R) Fabric Switch product drove market share gains in the fixed fabric switch category, allowing McDATA to achieve more than 19 percent share. The report confirmed that McDATA continues to hold the largest market share position in the director category with 35.5 percent share. Contributing factors include: steady customer deployment of McDATA's Intrepid(R) 6000-series directors, as well as the rising adoption of McDATA's backbone director, the Intrepid 10000. McDATA's total Fibre Channel market share increased to just over 27 percent. McDATA believes its acquisition of CNT (Carbon NanoTube) See nanotube. , expected to close on June 1, 2005, will drive further share gains as the Company executes its Global Enterprise Data Infrastructure strategy. "McDATA's growth in the market strongly affirms that our customers stand behind the company, our products and business strategy. We believe the momentum we experienced in our first quarter will continue as we come together with CNT. As one company, we offer SAN, MAN and WAN technology leadership and expertise spanning storage and network infrastructures, mainframe and open systems," said Wayne Morris People called Wayne Morris include:
The Dell'Oro Group Report statistics referenced in this release reflect McDATA's share only. About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT) is the only data infrastructure solutions provider that can deliver a Global Enterprise Data Infrastructure -- a globally connected, centrally managed and highly optimized data network. With more than 20 years of storage networking experience, McDATA is trusted in the world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all networked data and enabling information access anytime, anywhere. 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, McDATA's relationships with EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , 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 HDS (Hitachi Data Systems, Santa Clara, CA, www.hds.com) A leading provider of high-end storage hardware, software and services. Part of the Information Systems & Telecommunications Division of Hitachi Ltd. and the level of their orders, aggressive price competition by numerous other SAN and IP switch suppliers, 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 our new products, manufacturing constraints and other risk factors that are disclosed in McDATA's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These cautionary statements by McDATA should not be construed as exhaustive or as any admission regarding the adequacy of disclosures made by McDATA. All cautionary statements should be read as being applicable to all forward-looking statements wherever they appear. McDATA does 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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