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McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT) will advise government agency customers on the business benefits of and best strategies for effective branch office consolidation during a seminar next week in Washington, D.C. At the seminar, Gartner analyst Joe Skorupa will present "Why Consolidate? Streamlining Remote Data Management." McDATA's COO Todd Oseth, teamed with a McDATA Professional Services expert, will also teach attendees how remote office consolidation will help: -- Reduce costs of supporting remote office data -- Increase protection of data to meet governmental requirements and regulations -- Make data available across sites -- Assure real-time access to data across the country -0- *T Event: Why Consolidate? Streamlining Remote Data Management Seminar Presenters: Joe Skorupa, Research Vice President, Gartner Inc. Todd Oseth, Chief Operating Officer, McDATA Corp. When: 4 p.m., EDT, Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Where: Hay-Adams Hotel One Lafayette Square 800 16th and H Street NW Washington, D.C. *T 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.