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Unified Storage Services Offering Delivers Enhanced Support for Mainframe and Open Systems Environments McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT), a leading provider of data access solutions, today announced that Sun is leveraging McDATA's technology and service capabilities as part of Sun's Data Migration suite of services to support customers with ESCON to FICON and data migration requirements. "This is a good example of the strong customer benefits that can be realized when McDATA's technology and best practices are integrated into broader OEM services," said Costa Hasapopoulos, worldwide vice president, solutions and services, McDATA. "Together, Sun and McDATA are helping customers consolidate data to stretch their storage investments further; and leverage FICON to gain greater performance and availability, all in a cost-conscious manner." The Sun ESCON to FICON Migration Service provides a 3-step process that includes an initial migration workshop, architecture assessment and implementation. The migration workshop allows customers to meet with FICON experts to discuss and evaluate FICON technologies in the context of the customers' specific environments. The workshop is followed by an architecture assessment which provides in-depth analysis, models performance of the new FICON environment and provides a cost optimized migration plan. The process culminates with an implementation of a FICON system. For additional ESCON to FICON details go to http://sun.com/service/storage/e2f.xml or http://www.mcdata.com/solutions/ficon/index.html. About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT) is the leading provider of data access 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, IBM and Hitachi Data Systems and the level of their orders, aggressive price competition by numerous other SAN and IP switch suppliers, OEM 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. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, and The Network is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.