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IBM Storage SAN – Did you know? Welcome back to the Future!

By Kenneth Griffo posted Fri July 19, 2024 08:46 AM

  

Did you know? Storage Area Networks (SAN) came on the IT scene circa 1998. IBM Storage was one of the first to market back then, with a comprehensive storage portfolio to address key customer Fibre Channel primary storage needs.  

At that time, those needs were:

  • Shared Storage
  • Better Storage Performance (1 Gbit/sec! – a LOT in the 1990s)
  • Data Movement

Sound familiar to today’s hyperscale world?

Fast forward about ¼ century; SAN continues to be a core enterprise storage technology underpinning the modern IT infrastructure. Did you know……. that IBM continues to provide a complete end-to-end solution for IBM Infrastructure (POWER, Z, Fusion with Red Hat OpenShift, Flash, Disk, Tape), that includes the Storage Area Networking:

Why is this important?   

Because you, our IBM Storage customers, have told us that you want and need the option and benefits of sourcing from a single infrastructure vendor: fully tested, fully supported, enterprise infrastructure solutions, that may include SAN. If you need SAN, you want guaranteed:  
 

  • Smooth, fast, reliable SAN connectivity using:
    • b-type = Broadcom SAN  or
    • c-type = Cisco SAN
  • Resilient Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure that provides:
    • Secure, High Performance Data Movement
    • Secure Tape Grid Deployment
  • Simplified management
  • Deep visibility across the solution
  • Enterprise mission-critical support with end-to-end coverage, development testing, debugging, problem ownership and resolution
    • IBM provides IBM SAN Central support access, included with our SAN Infrastructure
  • IBM Expert Care
  • IBM Lab services migration assistance
  • Long term investment protection
  • Lower TCO

Did you know…. that IBM Storage continues to be a major single-source provider of exactly these types of solutions, using either b-type or c-type enterprise SAN, to our customers? Far from being static, today’s SAN technology delivers:

  • Unprecedented performance with 64Gbps Fibre Channel and FICON technology
  • Hardware-based Hacking Shields via a Dedicated, Secure Network
  • Ansible-based Automation and Management
  • Multi-site Data Replication and Tape Grid Deployment

Find out more about the often-hidden-in-plain-sight, important enterprise capability for your SAN, from IBM. IBM Storage SAN provides secure, reliable, high-performance connectivity that enables business growth with enterprise class support, services and cost effectiveness. To learn more about what the latest IBM SAN can do for you, go here: https://www.ibm.com/storage-area-network.

Be sure to mark your calendar for IBM TechXchange at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV, October 21-24, 2024. There will be several sessions focused on SAN for you to learn more. Remember to take advantage of your 30% off TechXchange tuition discount from IBM Storage!

Just like Tape, enterprise technologies like SAN continue to underpin our modern world.


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