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McDATA COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF SANERA SYSTEMS

McDATA Corporation, an expert provider of multi-capable storage networking solutions, announced the completion of its acquisition of Sanera Systems, a provider of highly scalable and reliable enterprise storage networking solutions.

The acquisition of Sanera extends McDATA's leadership at the core of the world's largest data centers and accelerates its vision of delivering a real-time storage services infrastructure.

The advanced functionality of McDATA's newest core director product will be combined with McDATA's current market proven director capabilities, including FICON, advanced diagnostics and integrated management, to enable customers to further consolidate their SAN infrastructures, deploy enterprise-wide fabrics and integrate intelligent storage services. This technology will also take advantage of blade and feature enhancements to the Intrepid and Sphereon products, including enhancements based on technology from McDATA's acquisition of Nishan and investment in Aarohi. As a result, customers will experience seamless interoperability across current and future McDATA environments and be able to leverage investments in capital, management tools and training.

"With seamless interoperability, the nscale platform is a natural extension of McDATA's Intrepid Director product family," said Mike Gustafson, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at McDATA. "This seamless integration gives customers the investment protection they've come to expect from McDATA, allows them to use the same management tools and training methodologies they've grown accustomed to, and provides a non-disruptive growth path for the future."