Solution briefs
Preserving SAN and IBM Z application behavior over distance
Banks, healthcare providers, government agencies, transport operators and manufacturers rely on SAN and IBM Z environments to keep critical applications running. Extending these systems between geographically dispersed data centers supports business continuity, disaster recovery and synchronous replication. However, distance introduces challenges of its own. Latency can affect application responsiveness and data consistency, while traffic traversing external fiber infrastructure faces greater exposure to disruption and attack. Connectivity must therefore deliver the reliability, security and predictable performance these mission-critical workloads depend on.
Our FSP 3000 open optical transport technology enables organizations to extend SAN and IBM Z environments over metropolitan and regional distances without compromising performance, resiliency or data integrity. By providing deterministic, congestion-free transport and seamless support for both legacy and next-generation services, it helps modernize and increase capacity without redesigning established storage and compute architectures or disrupting existing operations. Organizations can increase capacity, strengthen business continuity and modernize their infrastructure while keeping the operational characteristics of their SAN and mainframe environments intact.
Read our solution brief to learn how the FSP 3000 extends SAN and IBM Z environments while preserving native application behavior. Discover how IBM GDPS qualification and extensive interoperability testing help reduce deployment risk. Explore how quantum-safe optical encryption, continuous fiber monitoring and SAN-aware operational capabilities strengthen security, simplify troubleshooting and support consistent performance across distributed sites.