Reseller Agreement Addresses Customer Requests for Scalable, Director Class Storage Network Solutions

BROOMFIELD, Colo. and LOUISVILLE, Colo., Nov. 19, 2001 - StorageTek®, the storage services and solutions expert, and McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA/MCDT), the worldwide leader in open ultra-high availability storage networking solutions, today announced that StorageTek now offers McDATA's full family of "core-to-edge" storage networking solutions.

Available today, StorageTek will offer its customers McDATA's Intrepid™ 6000 Series Directors: the 6064 and 6140, and the Sphereon™ 3000 and 4000 Series Fabric Switches: the 3232 and its recently introduced 4500.

"With McDATA's Director-class products, StorageTek will broaden its solution set, and the addition of McDATA's switches will allow us to continue to deliver the most complete storage solutions in the industry," said Pierre Cousin, corporate vice president and general manager, storage networking, StorageTek.

StorageTek customers can deploy an enterprise-class infrastructure through McDATA's family of core-to-edge storage networking products, including its Intrepid 6000 Series Director and its Sphereon 4500 and 3232 Fabric Switches.

"Adding McDATA's core-to-edge product line extends the relationship McDATA has with StorageTek to bring the industry's most flexible and scalable products to their customers," said John Kelley, McDATA President and CEO. "With McDATA's set of products, customers can expect to unleash the power of their information like never before."

McDATA's Intrepid 6000 Series are ultra high-availability, multi-protocol Directors with the ability to support the rigorous demands of mission critical environments. McDATA's Intrepid Directors are deployed in data centers world-wide because of their ultra high availability uptime; ability to handle both mainframe and open systems data traffic, and their support for emerging technologies such as 10Gb/s, iSCSI, FCIP and InfiniBand.

McDATA's Sphereon 3000 and 4000 Series Fabric Switches are the highest availability products in their class and bring to the mid-range market many attributes of McDATA's Directors such as HotCAT™ technology (non-disruptive code load and activation). The Sphereon product line offers McDATA's unique FlexPort Technology (pay-as-you-grow scalability), performance, management and availability.

About McDATA
McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA/MCDT) is the worldwide leader in open, ultra high-availability storage networking solutions and provides highly available, scalable and centrally managed storage area networks (SANs) that address enterprise-wide storage problems. McDATA's core-to-edge enterprise SAN solutions improve the reliability and availability of data to simplify SAN management and reduce the total cost of ownership. McDATA extensively pre-tests its solutions to provide IT organizations with the comprehensive tools, methodologies and support essential to robust SAN implementation. McDATA distributes its products through its OEMs, network of resellers and Elite Solution Partners. McDATA and the McDATA logo are registered trademarks of McDATA Corporation.

About StorageTek
StorageTek (Storage Technology Corp., NYSE:STK), a $2 billion worldwide company with headquarters in Louisville, Colo., delivers a broad range of storage solutions for digitized data. StorageTek solutions are easy to manage and allow universal access to data across servers, media types and storage networks. StorageTek is the innovator and global leader in virtual storage solutions for tape automation, disk storage systems and storage networking and is a voting member of the SNIA. Because of StorageTek, customers can manage and leverage their digital assets as their businesses grow and can maximize IT productivity to ensure enterprise-class business continuity. For more information, see www.storagetek.com, or call 1.800.786.7835. TRADEMARKS: StorageTek is a registered trademark of Storage Technology Corp. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.