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

By Kenneth Griffo posted 10 hours ago

  

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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