IBM Launches Industry's First Drive-Based Tape Encryption Solution for Midsized Businesses
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the world's first tape library solution offering enterprise-class tape drive-based encryption capabilities at an affordable price point for midrange corporations and enterprise workgroups.
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The 100d is designed for small offices looking for inexpensive networked storage.
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IBM Corp has launched the successor to its venerable mainframe 3494 virtual tape library, which features built-in long-distance data replication, and operating code rewritten from the ground up.
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(InfoWorld) - It may be too early to talk plug-and-play but IBMÂ believes it can help businesses of all sizes easily cluster their servers to handle intensive computing workloads. Leveraging its expertise in high-end computing and vertical industry applications, IBM has launched several initiatives to allow small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and the departments of large enterprises to integrate their servers -- from as few as two to many thousands -- into computing clusters designed for high-performance computing tasks, the company said Wednesday. Initially targeted at the businesses in the life sciences, computer-aided engineering, and finance sectors, IBM will offer preconfigured "snap-together" cluster systems for customers using the company's computers and storage devices. The systems are designed to run on Linux and Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 operating systems and will include networking technology from companies such as Cisco Systems. The collaboration with Microsoft will allow businesses to use parallel processing on clusters to free up client machines from long-running applications. ISVs (independent software vendors) and business partners will receive tools to help them introduce IBM's cluster systems. These include sizing guides with predefined cluster configurations for simple ordering and installation. IBM business partners have access to the company's Cluster Enablement Team for technical questions and advice. For customers, software vendors and business partners running Microsoft cluster servers, IBM has four new benchmarking facilities in Poughkeepsie, New York, Raleigh, North Carolina, Beaverton, Oregon and Montpelier, France. These centers join a network of global Linux benchmark centers. To attract businesses interested in computing clusters, IBM's Deep Computing Capacity on Demand centers will give them access to more than 20,000 processors to test the technology for themselves. IBM offers a range of products that support computing clusters, including its System x, System p and BladeCenter servers, as well as the IBM System Storage and IBM System Cluster 1350.
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McAfee is focusing on security products and support for small and midsize businesses.
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Global leading technology firms NDS, STMicroelectronics and Thomson say they will develop new encryption technology to foil video piracy, a 3.5 billion US dollars problem for broadcasters and movie studios.
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IBM is introducing a line of radio-frequency identification services for midmarket companies that are based on practices that have been honed by IBM itself at its facilities for more than a year.
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Shorter backup windows pushing tape aside, says Infortrend More than half of British companies now prefer disk-based backup over tape, and in the financial services industry the margin is even greater, with almost two-thirds opting for spinning storage, according to a survey commissioned by RAID developer Infortrend.â¦
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After aggressively placing its new storage boxes in direct competition with storage giant EMC, IBM has now released new storage software to support EMC&#39;s Symmetrix DMX Series.
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Tape upgrades, new tape products, basically a lot of tape IBM is introducing new products to its virtual tape line for mainframe customers and enhancements to its virtual tape engine billed as low-power "green" alternatives for midrange and large businesses.â¦
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Company debuts new products that let businesspeople shuttle data from databases to mobile gadgets.
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Company backs 128-bit encryption, support for home LANs
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Big Blue plans to unveil its IBM System Storage TS1120, designed to encrypt data on tape drives.
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Symantec's new Veritas NetBackup Media Server Encryption Option offers encryption at the backup server, relieving application servers of the chore and also offers centralized key management.
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IBM last Friday announced that it will release a low-price disk server aimed at midsize companies that want to establish storage area networks.
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IBM has infiltrated deeper into EMC&#39;s storage line with a new version of its SAN (storage area network) Volume Controller software.
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(InfoWorld) - Â A Massachusetts vendor has addressed the problem of tape data backup in remote offices by removing tape from the enterprise entirely. Privately held Signiant Inc., of Burlington, will unveil its Mobilize for Remote Data Protection product at the Storage Decisions Conference that opens Wednesday in New York City. Mobilize is designed to aggregate data at the remote offices of a large- and medium-size business for transport over wide area networks (WANs) to a datacenter at its headquarters. Signiant is partnering with Sepaton Inc., of Marlborough, Massachusetts, which offers a virtual tape library system for datacenters. Businesses are increasingly concerned about protecting data in their field offices by consolidating it in the central office, said Rich Vining, Signiant's director of marketing. "Companies realize that up to 60 percent of their data is in remote offices and it's mostly on tape. There is a big risk companies see in terms of data loss," Vining said. Most remote offices don't have the information technology staff to effectively manage tape backup systems. "They're mostly sales and marketing people so it's not part of their job," Vining said. A 2005 survey of enterprise IT managers by the research firm Gartner Inc. showed that more than 50 percent of them said they were looking for a better way to protect data at their remote offices, said Dave Russell, a research vice president at Gartner. "I'm getting more and more inquiries from clients about how to protect the remote office," said Russell. Russell is witnessing a trend toward disk drive data backup as opposed to tape back up. "Disk reduces human intervention and the risk of human errors or of tapes going missing," he said. But tape still is a much less expensive solution than disk storage. Signiant faces competition for its new product from companies such as Symantec Corp., of Cupertino, California, which in April introduced its Net Backup Pure Disk for Remote Offices, and Avamar Technologies Inc., of Irvine, California, whose remote office solution compresses the data at the field office to make it easier to transmit over its WAN to the data center. Signiant is introducing Mobilize for companies with from five to 30 remote offices at a starting price of less than US$10,000 per office and a larger system for companies with between 30 and 2,000 remote offices starting at $75,000 per office.