The benefits of b-type platforms
IBM® Gen 7 Fibre Channel is the modern storage network infrastructure for mission-critical storage, enabling organizations to realize a self-learning, self-optimising, and self-healing autonomous SAN. See what ESG has to say about workload optimisation with end-to-end NVMe using IBM FlashSystem and b-type storage networking.
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Unleash NVMe performance with a modular SAN infrastructure
The IBM Storage Networking SAN64B-7 Switch builds a Fibre channel infrastructure with reduced latency and increased bandwidth that unleashes the performance of NVMe, FICON and SCSI workloads. In addition, this Gen7 infrastructure lays the foundation for an autonomous SAN by combining powerful analytics and advanced automation capabilities to maximize performance and ensure reliability so that organizations can realize a self-learning, self-optimizing, and self-healing SAN.
The SAN64B-7 Switch supports up to 64Gb/s port bandwidth with industry-leading port density providing a building block for rapid data growth, demanding workloads and data center consolidation. With 50% lower latency than previous generations, SAN64B-7 enables the maximum performance of next-generation NVMe storage.


What can IBM Storage Networking SAN128B-6 do for you?
A next-generation high-speed switch, IBM® Storage Networking SAN128B-6 is designed for flexible integration in large-scale storage networks. NVMe-ready SAN128B-6 enables efficient use of today’s flash storage, and provides advanced security, automation and orchestration capabilities that can simplify operations—from instantiating virtual machines and workload balancing to monitoring traffic. SAN128B-6 offers an expandable set of available b-type Gen 6 Fibre Channel ports for extreme scalability and advanced control features to simplify management.
What IBM System Networking SAN96B-5 can do for your business
The IBM® System Networking SAN96B-5 switch 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; evolving, virtualized data-centers; and highly virtualized private and hybrid cloud storage environments.


What IBM Storage Networking SAN64B-6 does for your business
The IBM® Storage Networking SAN64B-6 switch is designed to meet the demands of hyper-scale virtualization, larger cloud infrastructures and growing flash-based storage environments by delivering market-leading Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology and capabilities. SAN64B-6 provides a high-density storage networking building block for increased scalability designed to support growth, demanding workloads and data center consolidation in small to large-scale enterprise infrastructures.
What IBM® Storage Networking Can Do For Your Business
IBM Storage Networking SAN24B-6 is an entry-level switch that combines high-performance capabilities of 4, 8, 16 and 32 Gbps with point-and-click simplicity and enterprise-class functionality. It provides small to midsized data centers with low-cost access to industry-leading Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology and the ability to start small and grow on demand—from 8 to 24 ports—to support an evolving storage environment. IBM b-type Gen 6 Fibre Channel products are designed to unleash the full potential of new storage technologies for the new high-performance application workloads.


Extension switch model: SAN50C-R
Addressing your performance and connectivity requirements.
Optimised platform for deploying high performance SAN extension solutions, distributed intelligent fabric services and cost-effective multiprotocol connectivity for open systems and mainframe environments.