ANAHEIM, CA -- MTI Technology Corp. (NASDAQ: MTIC), a major global provider of enterprise storage solutions for more than two decades, and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade(R)) (NASDAQ: BRCD) , a leading provider of infrastructure for Storage Area Networks (SANs), announced today that MTI will offer its customers the newly available SilkWorm(R) 12000 2 Gigabit Per Second (Gbit/sec) Core Fabric Switch as a building block for enterprise SANs. MTI plans to make the product available with its entire Vivant(TM) family of SAN and Network Attached Storage (NAS) storage solutions beginning in the second quarter of this year. Vivant storage systems provide high availability and flexible, scalable solutions to meet today's mission critical data consolidation requirements and investment protection for future growth. Offering the SilkWorm 12000 and its management software will expand the range and scope of MTI's Connection Services, which provides data access between open systems host servers and the fault tolerant Vivant storage servers. "The SilkWorm 12000 is a next-generation intelligent architecture designed for the unique requirements of large configurations and enterprise storage environments and will greatly improve SAN connectivity for our Vivant storage solutions," said V.S. Venkataraman, MTI's senior vice president, product planning and strategy. "MTI has always been committed to delivering the broadest connectivity for today's enterprise, and we're excited that our customers will soon be reaping the many manageability, security, and high availability benefits of this great new Brocade fabric switch." "Forward and backward compatible with the entire Brocade product family and autosensing to 1 and 2 Gbit/sec, the SilkWorm 12000 provides investment protection to MTI customers who want to optimize their existing storage infrastructure," said Jay Kidd, Brocade Vice President of Product Marketing. "We are pleased to deliver this enterprise-optimized core fabric switch to MTI and our mutual customers."