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Recognizing its services are critical to the well being of the community, Goodwill Industries International deployed a new business continuity and disaster recovery solution from McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA) (Nasdaq: MCDT) to ensure its job training and placement services are available to clients at all times. Nearly 850,000 people took advantage of Goodwill�s employment services in 2006 to get back on their feet, and the organization�s ability to provide these services throughout the year is vital, making access to Goodwill�s business applications and client information a mission-critical issue. �Our existing tape backup solution just wasn�t getting the job done efficiently. We had one instance where a failed Exchange server took too long to restore and merge the databases, adversely affecting business operations,� said Steve Bergman, chief information officer, Goodwill. �With the McDATA solution, we know that our business applications won�t go down when needed the most and our data is protected and can be recovered easily.� Tired of relying on inefficient tape backups and frustrated at the long restore times, Goodwill tabbed McDATA to set up its Replicator appliances that seamlessly replicate data over Goodwill�s existing network infrastructure from a datacenter in Washington, D.C., to a remote disaster recovery site in Milwaukee. High availability connectivity to the remote site is provided by two McDATA Eclipse SAN routers. In case of downtime caused by a corrupted server, a data center outage or regional disaster, Goodwill�s business applications � systems that employees use to access client information, share best practices and documents and communicate effectively � automatically failover to the Milwaukee site. �While disaster recovery is critical to the financial well being of companies in the private sector, non-profits like Goodwill can not meet their basic mission goals without a reliable system in place to ensure business continuity,� said Raj Das, vice president of Product Marketing, McDATA. �We are ecstatic that McDATA�s replication technology can help Goodwill ensure that its services get to the people who need them the most when they are needed the most.� In the future, the non-profit plans to offer replication services to other Goodwill agencies, starting with three in the first quarter of 2007. Data that supports local operations such as Goodwill�s retail stores will be replicated to the disaster recovery site, providing even greater and more complete data protection. About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA) (Nasdaq: 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. 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.