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One clear message heard from small and medium businesses is that their data is as valuable to their organizations as data is to the enterprise customer. In fact, small businesses are experiencing even faster data growth and are discovering that their storage and data protection requirements have more similarities than differences, relative to large enterprises.
 
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New 8 Gbps switching modules strengthen Cisco MDS family resold by IBM – IBM has announced new 24–port, 48–port, and 4/44–port 8 Gbps fibre channel switching modules for the Cisco MDS 9506, 9509, and 9513 directors, and 4/44–port 8 Gbps modules for the Cisco MDS 9222i fabric switch. New 8 Gbps shortwave and longwave optical transceivers were also announced. Cisco directors and switches resold by IBM offer expanded SAN management capabilities to meet the broadest range of system requirements and reduce total cost of ownership for SAN networks.

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New IBM System Storage Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM™) offers end-to-end network management – DCFM manages and secures the flow of data across multiple fabrics helping IT organizations achieve service level agreement (SLA), security and compliance goals while containing operational expenses. DCFM provides exceptional scalability and performance. It also features easy–to–use administrative tools to streamline and automate repetitive tasks for new levels of productivity and efficiency.

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New FICON Accelerator for z/OS Global Mirror and remote tape – The FICON Accelerator feature, announced for the IBM System Storage b–type routers and directors, enhances remote connectivity. The new feature employs IBM z/OStm Global Mirror and tape pipelining emulation techniques to reduce or eliminate performance degradation.

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New 8 Gbps longwave tranceivers add performance and flexibility - IBM has announced the availability of 8 Gbps 10 Km Longwave (LW) Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver features for IBM Systems Storage b-type switches and directors capable of operating at 8 Gbps link speeds. These switches and directors include the SAN24B-4 Express, SAN40B-4, SAN80B-4, SAN256B and SAN768B. The new transceiver options are designed to provide additional configuration options and distance extension across campus distances.

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