McDATA Delivers SMI-S; Open Interface Gives Customers and Partners Access To McDATA Fabric Intelligence.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 storage networking solutions, today announced the availability of its Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S SMI-S Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SNIA) ) Interface, delivering a Common Information Model (CIM (1) (Computer-Integrated Manufacturing) Integrating office/accounting functions with automated factory systems. Point of sale, billing, machine tool scheduling and supply ordering are part of CIM. ) provider for McDATA Intrepid directors and Sphereon fabric switches. McDATA's SMI-S Interface is certified as SNIA-CTP SNIA-CTP Storage Network Industry Association-Conformance Testing Program v1.1 compliant. It can be utilized by third-party management applications with an SMI-S certified client to discover, monitor and configure McDATA devices and will immediately be leveraged by HP's SMI-S client and in future by 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 others. "McDATA is among the first switch vendors to release an SMI-S provider, demonstrating our ongoing commitment to delivering open, standards-based products. End users are the ultimate beneficiaries of SMI-S compliant solutions with improved manageability, security and network reliability," said Wayne Morris People called Wayne Morris include:
"Purchasing decisions today are influenced by interoperability and system manageability, so the majority of organizations prefer to deploy solutions that are based on open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced ," said Frank Harbist, vice president, storage software, StorageWorks Division, HP. "HP System Insight Manager and HP Storage Essentials support McDATA's SMI-S standards-based interface to allow customers to seamlessly create and integrate multi-vendor environments and enable switch-level monitoring and configuration. Customer can benefit from the greater return on investment that results from improved network visibility and simplified infrastructure management." McDATA SMI-S Interface Release 1.0 provides an SMI-S-based integration platform where third party applications can leverage the network and fabric intelligence of Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM EFCM Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager ). "We plan to integrate IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center with McDATA environments utilizing SMI-S," said James Gruener, Tivoli Storage Market Manager, IBM. "Such an integration would be directed at giving customers enhanced ability to manage their SANs from the application to the spindle and everything in between." The Storage Networking Industry Association's Storage Management Initiative was created to develop and standardize interoperable storage management technologies. SMI-S allows storage vendors to target development efforts on a single standard interface so end-users can lower the total cost of ownership as management, integration of resources and interoperability improve network-wide. "The SNIA-CTP program continues to evolve through the cooperation of vendors like McDATA, and others developing tests for fabric and switches for SMI-S v1.1 conformance testing Conformance testing or type testing is testing to determine whether a system meets some specified standard. To aid in this, many test procedures and test setups have been developed, either by the standard's maintainers or external organizations, specifically for ," said Ed von Adelung, chairman of the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via Storage Management Forum. "These new tests are an integral step in bringing standards conformance to the marketplace and offering end users more flexible choices in their selection of products--choices that offer management interoperability to address the complexity of managing storage in the data center." About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT) is the leading provider of storage networking 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. 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, 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 and Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. 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 - such as the Intrepid 10000 Director, integration of CNT's sales and marketing functions, manufacturing constraints, constraints in obtaining third party product for resale 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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