Smarter Computing: Ready now. What's next.

New offerings from IBM help you transform traditional infrastructure into a software-defined environment.

 

Smarter Computing: Ready now. What's next.


Deploy applications in minutes with a network hypervisor

IBM SDN for Virtual Environments


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Deploy applications in minutes with a network hypervisor

IBM SDN for Virtual Environments


Announcing IBM System Networking Gen 5 SAN96B-5

New! High density 96 port switch for large and growing SAN infrastructures

 

Announcing IBM System Networking Gen 5 SAN96B-5


New! High density 96 port switch for large and growing SAN infrastructures

Why IBM

IBM SAN products and solutions provide integrated SMB and enterprise SAN solutions with multi-protocol local, campus, metropolitan and global storage networking. Learn more

Newest SAN offerings

IBM System Networking SAN96B-5

SAN96B-5 is a high-density, purpose-built, foundational building block for large and growing storage area network (SAN) infrastructures. It is designed to provide a highly resilient, scalable and simplified network infrastructure for storage. By delivering market-leading Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology and capabilities with 16 Gbps performance, SAN96B-5 meets the demands of growing, dynamic workloads and highly virtualized private and hybrid cloud storage environments.

SAN48B-5 Switch

The IBM® System Storage® SAN48B-5 switch is designed to meet the demands of hyper-scale private or hybrid cloud storage environments by delivering 16 Gbps Fibre Channel technology and capabilities that support highly virtualized environments. This switch—now enhanced with enterprise connectivity options that add support for IBM FICON® connectivity—can provide a highly reliable infrastructure when used with fast, scalable IBM System z® servers.

SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2 Fabric Backbones

IBM System Storage® SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2 fabric backbones are among the industry's most powerful Fibre Channel switching infrastructure offerings. They provide reliable, scalable, high-performance foundations for mission-critical storage. These fabric backbones also deliver enterprise connectivity options to add support for IBM FICON® connectivity, offering a high-performing and reliable FICON infrastructure with fast and scalable IBM System z® servers.

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Enterprise SAN directors

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Mid-range SAN switches

For scalable, affordable SMB and enterprise solutions.

Entry SAN switches

For simple, affordable small and medium business (SMB) solutions.

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