McDATA

McDATA Corporation provides storage area networking (SAN) products and services to large organizations.

McDATA Corporation provides storage networking and data infrastructure solutions worldwide. The company was founded in 1982 and is based in Broomfield, Colorado. McDATA’s solutions help enterprises to consolidate, move, access, and protect data held within enterprises across storage area networks, metropolitan area networks, and wide area networks. The company offers hardware products, such as SAN fibre channel and fibre connection directors, SAN fibre channel fabric switches, blade switches, SAN routers and extension products, and data center fiber channel cabinets. Its software products include SANavigator, a storage network management application used to manage the SAN, including other switch vendors; Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager, a storage network management application used to configure and manage SANs; and SANvergence, a collection of software tools for managing a multiprotocol storage fabric consisting of McDATA switches and gateways. The company also provides professional services, support, and education that enable businesses to create SANs. McDATA Corporation was acquired by Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. in 2006.