Is your data center poised to take the 16 Gb step in Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity? The growth in enterprise flash storage & the deployment of servers with multi-core processors is driving the need for high performance storage networking to prevent application performance bottlenecks. The FC Host Bus Adapter (HBA) is a critical element of this storage network to improve storage performance. The HPE Store Fabric SN1200E 16 Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters deliver the high bandwidth, low latency & high IOPs to meet any application requirements, from online transaction processing or data warehousing to backup/restore & Open Stack Cinder block storage. Supporting higher virtual machine density on powerful host servers, the SN1200E 16 Gb HBAs delivers increased ROI on enabling more applications & virtual machines to run on a single server & I/O port without impacting SLAs. The 16 Gb FC HBA is backward compatible with 8 & 4 Gb FC storage networks to protect legacy investments.