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Lenovo Gen 8 Fibre Channel
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Gen 8 – Building a Quantum-safe SAN for the Enterprise AI Era
Harness the Power of SAN: Intelligent Automation, Cyber-Safe Security, and Speed
The future of storage is autonomous. This partnership combines industry-leading Brocade Fibre Channel technology with innovative infrastructure from Lenovo to deliver Gen 7 and Gen 8 solutions that power modern data centers.
Critical in today’s data-driven world, Gen 8’s SAN Fabric Intelligence (SAN FI) transforms management by providing AI-powered autonomy and actionable insights that simplify operations and proactively ensure performance.
By choosing Lenovo Gen 8 SAN, you leverage this intelligence alongside 128G speed and quantum-resistant security for unmatched performance, security, and scalability for your mission-critical workloads.
Why use Lenovo Gen 7 or Gen 8 SAN
For best-in-class performance, scalability, and quantum-safe security, Lenovo Fibre Channel solutions, built with Brocade technology, transform your current storage network into an autonomous and cyber-resilient SAN.
Gen 7 fabrics are secure by design and feature autonomous SAN capabilities that monitor and take action to resolve issues, optimizing application performance for the highest availability and reliability.
Upgrading to Gen 8 delivers the next evolution: AI-powered autonomy that learns, optimizes, and heals on its own, combined with quantum-resistant architecture to safeguard your SAN against cyber-attacks, IT disruptions, and future threats.
The need to refresh old SAN
Legacy infrastructure can limit performance gains from next-generation technologies and leave you exposed to cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Simply adding faster switching technology is not enough; your SAN needs to be able to act autonomously to maintain optimal conditions. Investing to upgrade now to Gen 7 or Gen 8 Fibre Channel SAN will pay dividends for many years to come.
Gen 7 and Gen 8 are fully flexible, allowing you to get the most out of your existing infrastructure by easing migration to new technology while running multiple generations of storage without sacrificing performance. Gen 7 supports 64G/32G/16G connectivity, while Gen 8 supports 128G/64G/32G bandwidth for an instant, massive performance boost for data-intensive applications.
Upgrade today to realise your infrastructure’s full capabilities and secure your long-term investment.
Enhanced Security and Resilience
IT departments face growing pressure to protect mission-critical data from ever-increasing natural disasters and other outages. You need assurance that your storage won’t fail when you need it most. Fibre Channel delivers that confidence by engineering its network for reliability, providing 99.9999% uptime and always-on data access. The technology guarantees lossless, in-order delivery and features a redundant, self-healing fabric that automatically reroutes traffic, ensuring your critical applications stay running without administrator intervention.
Download the solution brief to see how the self-managing fabric maximizes performance and simplifies your mission-critical environment.
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Comprehensive Data Security from Server to Storage
Lenovo storage solutions rely on Broadcom’s Emulex® Fibre Channel HBAs and Brocade Storage Networks to ensure secure, high-performance connectivity in modern data centres.
Brocade Gen 7 and Gen 8 Fibre Channel switches provide a resilient backbone, while Emulex HBAs inside Lenovo servers deliver fast, secure data movement. With hardware-based encryption and end-to-end protection, these HBAs act as the first line of defense for data in motion—reinforcing Fibre Channel’s unmatched security record and ensuring robust data protection from server to network.
Read the datasheets to find out how the Lenovo Emulex® Gen 7 Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) by Broadcom deliver the highest level of security and performance.
Emulex LPe35000/LPe36000-Series
Emulex LPe37100/LPe38100-Series
Emulex SecureHBA Delivers the Industry’s First Autonomous In-Flight Encryption
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