IBM Delivers 16Gbps Fibre Channel Storage Area Networking

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced high-performance 16Gbps Fibre Channel storage area networking (SAN) solutions that the company said has been designed to help enterprise clients migrate smoothly to private cloud architectures.

"As demand for highly virtualized infrastructures increases, and public, private and hybrid clouds become increasingly popular, the new IBM solutions will consolidate and lower expenses around servers and storage deployments while accelerating and streamlining SAN backbones and switching platforms to accelerate access to the cloud," said IBM.

 

 

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"We are delighted to introduce high-performance Fibre Channel fabric technology that implements smarter private cloud computing for today’s most popular virtualized storage environments," said Vikram Mehta, Vice President, IBM System Networking. "With these new 16 Gbps SAN solutions from IBM, clients can unleash the full potential of private cloud storage with improved scalability, performance and reliability, reduced network complexity and costs and centralized management."

IBM's new 16 Gbps Fibre Channel SAN solutions are orchestrated with leading IBM products, including IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and the IBM Systems Director.

Read the Full Release Announcement at IBM System Networking