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DataCore Showcases Customer Wins Built on Industry-Leading Brocade Storage Networking Infrastructure

DataCore Leverages Brocade Fabric Threads Developer Program to Complement Multi-vendor SAN Environments

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (May 29, 2002) — DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open storage networking software, today reviewed some of its customer successes as a member of the Brocade Fabric Threads Developer Program. Numerous storage networking customers worldwide have deployed SANsymphony™ software over SAN infrastructures built on Brocade Silkworm( intelligent fabric switches to increase disk utilization, and centralize and automate storage administration. Together the products help eliminate downtime using non-disruptive storage provisioning and replication techniques, while enhancing performance, connectivity and productivity. This allows organizations to support more users, applications and storage with existing resources and personnel. Representative installations include 7 Global, Alcatel Space, Belgacom France, DBCC, Canada's Veterans Affairs, DeTeLine, FAZ - Allgemeiner Zeitung, Fujitsu Telecommunications and TF1 Publicitщ.

"The combination of SANsymphony software and Brocade's fabric switches has greatly increased our productivity and simplified our storage management challenges for our growing list of heterogeneous servers," said Graham Crich, senior vice president with 7 Global, a UK-based storage services provider. "DataCore and Brocade matched 7 Global's selection criteria by providing a solution with the ability to mirror data across sites, improve application I/O throughput performance and implement centralized storage management."

"As companies deploy and grow their SANs at a rapid rate, helping vendors like DataCore leverage the intelligence in Brocade SAN infrastructure to create products and applications that interoperate in Brocade-based heterogeneous storage networks is crucial," said Jay Kidd, vice president of product marketing at Brocade. "Our Fabric Threads Developer Program and our relationship with DataCore are excellent examples of our continued commitment to delivering end-to-end solutions to our SAN customers."

"Interoperability and reliability are what we looked for in our storage environments. As storage networks grow across the enterprise, our ability to easily manage vital storage resources across these multi-vendor configurations becomes even more vital," said Mike Burke, director of IS and networking at DBCC located in Daytona Beach, Florida. "Our DataCore and Brocade solution delivered ease of management, reliability, and end-to-end interoperability."

SANsymphony is a unique software product that lets you organize a mix and match of popular storage devices into a network storage pool. Open systems application servers running Windows, UNIX, NetWare and Linux are allocated virtual volumes from the pool on demand. SANsymphony frees disks from being confined to individual hosts, while leveraging Fibre-Channel's enhanced distance, connectivity and performance. The result is a versatile and scalable relationship between application servers and networked storage resources.

"Traditional direct-attached storage cannot offer the flexibility, scalability and availability to support today's explosive data growth in a cost-effective manner," said Ken Horner, vice president of marketing with DataCore Software. "DataCore is excited about our customer successes and our continuing work with Brocade to satisfy these customer's storage networking needs around the globe."

About 7
7 provides a range of Technology Outsourcing and System Integration Services. The services empower its clients to remain focused on their core competencies rather than the chore of managing increasingly complex IT systems. Services combine the latest software and hardware, finest IT talent, systems integration skills, networking capabilities and are delivered on or off site. Please visit www.7GLOBAL.com for more detailed information.

About Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) provides the world's leading intelligent platform for networking storage. For more information, visit the Brocade website at www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com.

About DataCore Software
DataCore Software Corporation's award-winning software automates and consolidates storage management for enterprise customers worldwide, significantly reducing their costs and increasing the return on investment from information technology assets. The company's SANsymphony software sets the standard for open storage networking platforms, supporting all major brands of disk arrays and operating systems. It is available and supported through major OEMs, system integrators and resellers. DataCore is privately held with corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For international office locations and more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com.

DataCore, the DataCore Logo, Powered by DataCore, Networked-Powered Storage, NPS, ROI Street Smarts, SANsymphony, SANcentral, SANcollege and SANvantage are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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