- Flexible and cost-effective security solution
- Provides superior performance for the enterprise
- Integrates seamlessly into existing SANs
- Supports IT server consolidation and energy conservation initiatives
- Allows application of SAN best practices, tools and processes with virtual server deployments
- Protects sensitive data from unauthorized access
- Assures data availability and data integrity
- Improves IT staff productivity through simplified deployment and management
- Frame-level multiplexing and out-of-order frame reassembly increases link efficiency and maximizes HBA performance
- End-to-end data protection with hardware parity, CRC, ECC and other advanced error-checking and correcting algorithms ensure data is safe from corruption
- Universal boot capability allows the appropriate boot environment to be automatically selected for any given hardware
- Boot-from-SAN capability reduces system management costs and increases uptime
- Detailed real-time event logging and tracing enables quick diagnosis of SAN problems
- Beaconing feature flashes the HBA LEDs, simplifying their identification within server racks
- Environmental monitoring feature helps to optimize SAN availability
- Cost-effective, comprehensive data center-class encryption solution that can reduce operational costs and risks by protecting data in-flight and at-rest as well as providing an alternative to physical disk destruction, encrypting switches, encrypting arrays and hardware security modules
- Enables easy compliance with government, regulatory and industry security regulations and mandates
- Provides deployment simplicity and flexibility
Streamlined installation and management, unrivaled scalability and industry-leading virtualization support make the ThinkServer Host Bus Adapters an ideal solution for enterprise, mixed-operating system (OS) and virtual server environments. With powerful management capabilities and broad platform support, they deliver maximum performance in the broadest range of applications and environments.