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Posted by James Rogers on April 5, 2008
HP will overhaul its storage security offerings next week with a souped-up fabric switch, enhanced key management, and an encryption kit for tape libraries and autoloaders.
First up is the C-Series MDS 9222i Storage Media Encryption (SME) switch. That allows you to encrypt data through any port on the switch,” says Adam Thew, HP’s director of products for nearline products. “It’s basically targeted at legacy tape. This is really for places where they have older environments than LTO 4, where they want to encrypt the data going to virtual tape." He explains that, whereas LTO 4 has native encryption, earlier versions of the technology do not.
”Up until now, if customers had been looking to go to tape level encryption, they have had to upgrade their tape to LTO 4, but this is a solution to avoid that,” says Thew.
HP is not the first vendor to focus its energy on switch fabric encryption. Last year, for example, Cisco teamed up with EMC's RSA division to encrypt data traveling across the network on its family of switches, although users were reluctant to abandon more traditional encryption methods.
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