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Brocade®(Nasdaq: BRCD) offers the industry¡¯s leading intelligent platform for networking storage. Using the Brocade SilkWorm? family of switches and software, organizations can network servers with storage devices through Storage Area Networks (SANs)¡ªenabling them to optimize asset utilization, increase productivity, and significantly reduce the overall cost of their storage environments. Today, the world¡¯s leading systems, applications, and storage vendors rely on Brocade to provide a networking foundation for their SAN solutions. As measured by revenue, Brocade has 50 percent of the total SAN switching product market and 68 percent of the Fibre Channel switch market.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Internet solutions comprising Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings provide individuals, companies, and countries with access to information independent of time and location. Cisco offers solutions for the data center through a network architecture that supports current data center initiatives and provides a foundation for infrastructure and technologies in the future. In addition to intelligent switching, security and optical networking products, Cisco offers a comprehensive portfolio of storage networking products that includes multilayer directors, fabric switches, IP storage routers, and metro-optical networking solutions. These products help meet requirements for highly available storage networking solutions within and between data centers.

Dell Inc. is a trusted and diversified information-technology supplier and partner, and sells a comprehensive portfolio of products and services directly to customers worldwide. Dell was founded on a simple concept: that by selling computer systems directly to customers, Dell could best understand their needs and efficiently provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. This direct business model eliminates retailers that add unnecessary time and cost, or can diminish Dell's understanding of customer expectations. The direct model allows the company to build every system to order and offer customers powerful, richly-configured systems at competitive prices.

McDATA Corporation is the leading provider of data infrastructure solutions for the enterprise. At McDATA, we recognize that explosive data growth and network complexity offer challenges to meeting global business demands. We deliver solutions that optimize data networks and let companies unleash the power of information in their enterprise.