McDATA Wins Four Prestigious Industry Awards In Asia Pacific
Financial institutions, government agencies, telecommunications providers, universities and other companies across Asia Pacific continue to steadily deploy McDATA Corporation's (Nasdaq: MCDTA/MCDT) leading storage networking hardware and SAN management software to meet their unique storage networking requirements with the most advanced technologies available. This strong customer adoption in the growing Asia Pacific region, combined with product and technology leadership, has helped McDATA earn the following four industry awards:
Intrepid® 10000 wins IT168 "Merit Award"
McDATA's Intrepid 10000 Director (i10K) was awarded one of only four awards given this year from IT168, the largest IT product acquisition website in China. One of the noted capabilities was its ability to share Fibre Channel and FICON traffic on the same director.
Sphereon™ 4700 wins China Information World (CIW) "Editors' Choice" award
Its high performance, flexibility, ease of use and cost efficiency earned McDATA's 4Gb/s Sphereon™ 4700 Fabric Switch the Editor's Choice award from CIW, a leading technology publication in China.
Sphereon 4700 wins C-Week "2005 Hot 1 Award"
C-Week, a leading Chinese trade publication recognized the Sphereon 4700 as a 2005 "Hot 1 Award" winner. The 4700 was one of seven products recognized annually by the publication. In their recognition, editors note that switch capabilities such as seamless scaling of all 32 ports via FlexPort technology, automatic port speed settings, uninterrupted expansion and fast data availability make the McDATA Sphereon 4700 a winner in the realm of SAN technology.
Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager wins China Computer Education "Product of the Year"
The editors at China Computer Education awarded McDATA's Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM) "Product of The Year," stating EFCM's strength lies in the fact that it is a simplified SAN management application that also provides a modular platform, resulting in enterprise-level reliability without lowering the performance. In the ten years that CCE has given "Product of the Year" awards, McDATA is the only vendor recognized for storage network management software.
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McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA/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.