EMC, McData Expand Sales Agreement
McData Corp. (stock: MCDT), maker of storage network switches, said that storage network provider EMC Corp. (stock: EMC) would sell a broader range of McData products. The two companies have held a sales relationship for three years, with EMC being one of the first companies to market McData's ED-5000 Director, selling it as the EMC Connectrix ED-1032. EMC will sell McData's new Galaxy-Class ED-6064 Director product as the EMC Connectrix ED-64M. EMC will sell also McData's ES-3032 and ES-3016 fabric switches as the EMC Connectrix DS-32M and DS-16M, respectively.

InteQ Gets $57 Million In Second-Round Funding
Management service provider InteQ Corp. has secured $57 million in second-round funding. New equity in this round amounts to $40 million; $17 million is convertible-debt refinancing. Venture capital firms Charles River Ventures, M/C Venture Partners, and Mercury Interactive each invested. In December, the company raised $15 million from Charles River and M/C Venture. The company said it will use the money to bolster the sales force behind its InfraServices monitoring and management services.

Tellme, MagicPhone To Merge
Tellme Networks Inc., a Silicon Valley startup that provides voice-based Internet services over the telephone, Monday announced it is merging with MagicPhone, a Belgian company that offers similar services in Europe. Tellme said the merger should help accelerate its growth in Europe, where the market for phone-based Internet services is generally more mature than it is in the United States. Tellme, Mountain View, Calif., is one of a number of companies offering a voice portal in which consumers can get online content through spoken commands such as "weather" or "stocks." And it uses the same basic voice-recognition technology to help businesses automate more of their customer-service functions. Tellme said the merger with Brussels' MagicPhone would be completed as a stock-based transaction, and that the combined company will also be called Tellme.