IBM, Sun announce native tape drive encryption
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IBM and Sun have announced native encryption capabilities on their enterprise-class tape drive products that will reduce CPU utilization on networks and servers that might otherwise perform the function.
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In a first-to-market move, Seagate Technology is now shipping its new 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drives with built-in encryption technology. ASI Computer Technologies will be the first laptop manufacturer to incorporate the technology into its hardware.
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IBM on Friday unveiled new low-cost storage servers that the computer giant&#39;s using to undercut wares from rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell/EMC in the small- and mid-sized markets.
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Company releases a key-management product aimed at helping companies manage encrypted systems more efficiently.
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IBM introduced a virtual tape storage management system for mainframe environments.
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(InfoWorld) - Apple may have a jones for secrecy, but that doesn't mean it can keep its partners quiet. On stage Wednesday in Washington D.C., Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz revealed that his company's open-source ZFS file system will replace Apple's long-used HFS+ in Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a. "Leopard," when the new operating system ships this fall. "This week, you'll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developers Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS X," said Schwartz. ZFS (Zettabyte File System), designed by Sun for its Solaris OS but licensed as open-source, is a 128-bit file storage system that features, among other things, "pooled storage," which means that users simply plug in additional drives to add space, without worrying about such traditional storage parameters as volumes or partitions. "[ZFS] eliminates volume management, it has extremely high performance.... It permits the failure of disk drives," crowed Schwartz during a presentation focused on Sun's new blade servers. Apple's operating system currently relies on HFS+ (Hierarchical File System Plus), a 1998 extension of 1985's HFS. ZFS was touted by many as a possible successor to HFS+ last summer, immediately after Apple's CEO Steve Jobs first showed off Time Machine, the new backup feature planned to debut in Leopard. In the intervening months, however, the ZFS-Time Machine connections were downplayed or dismissed by most observers. Even today, after Schwartz talked up ZFS, bloggers seemed skeptical about the file system's place in Leopard. "I'll stick to my prediction that Apple, as with HFS+, will put ZFS on OS X Server first before bringing it out later for the great unwashed," said Robin Harris on his StorageMojo blog. Most objections centered around the short time between now and Leopard's October release, and the implications of such a major makeover. Others at Sun, however, seemed to confirm that ZFS would be the default file system. "Jonathan noted that Apple will announce this week that the ZFS file system from OpenSolaris will become Apple's new default file system," said Marc Hamilton, Sun's director of technology for global education and research, on his company blog. "So how does that help Sun? It is pretty simple, now every Apple developer will know ZFS and how to use it on our SunFire x4500 storage server and other Sun products." A Sun spokeswoman would not confirm or deny that ZFS would be Mac OS X 10.5's default file system. "I can't tell you anything more than what Jonathan [Schwartz] said today," she said. Apple does not comment on unannounced products or product features. Schwartz may have unwittingly stolen some of Jobs' thunder for next week, since Apple watchers expect the Apple CEO to tout Leopard -- especially features previously not made public -- during his WWDC keynote next Monday.
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The memory sticks will support U3 technology for portable computing and offer password security.
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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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Moving a step closer to its goal of storage on demand, IBM Corp. today announced updates to its TotalStorage Open Software product line with the intention
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IBM is the first PC manufacturer to use a National Semiconductor chip that stores a PC&#39;s identity in silicon to avert hackers by safeguarding passwords and other sensitive identity information.
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After cracking the encryption system that protected DVDs in order to play the discs he had bought on a PC running Linux, Jon Lech Johansen has his sights set on liberating other audiovisual content from the format in which it is sold.DoubleTwist, a company he co-founded in March 2007 with Monique Farantzos, on Tuesday released beta versions of a Facebook application and a PC desktop application for unlocking and managing music and video files.Johansen achieved notoriety as &#39;DVD Jon&#39; when he ended up in court for co-writing the DeCSS software that cracked the encryption on DVDs and allowed them to play on PCs running open-source media player software on Linux. Until then, they could only be watched using authorized hardware or proprietary software because their content was encrypted using the Content Scrambling System (CSS).He followed that up by breaking a series of other DRM (digital rights management) encryption systems including FairPlay, Apple&#39;s proprietary DRM wrapper around the open AAC format music files it sells via its iTunes Store.While Apple&#39;s iPod is not the only portable device that can play AAC files -- many Nokia phones do too -- it is the only one that can play the encrypted AAC files Apple sells. There are ways to work around Apple&#39;s DRM, including burning the files to a CD and then ripping them back into the computer in another format, but they are time-consuming.DoubleTwist&#39;s tools, Twist me and doubleTwist desktop, are intended to make it easier to move music and video files, including those locked by Apple&#39;s DRM, from one device to another, or to share them with family and friends, the company said.Twist me, the Facebook application, lets users of the social network site put music and video on their profile pages to share with friends.DoubleTwist desktop runs on Windows PCs alongside Apple&#39;s iTunes, and can take legally purchased iTunes files in the DRM-protected AAC format and, on the machine authorized to play them, turn them into MP3 files that will then play almost anywhere, the company said.The desktop software also includes tools for sharing audio and video playlists and photo albums, and synchronizing them with Nokia&#39;s NSeries, Sony Ericsson&#39;s Walkman and Cybershot phones, the Sony PSP game console and the Amazon Kindle e-reader, among other devices. In addition to AAC and MP3, it handles WMA (Windows Media Audio) and WAV audio formats, and video in MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV (Windows Media Video), AVI and the 3GP format used by mobile phones.DoubleTwist&#39;s software may soon be obsolete, though. Digital music retailers are beginning to realize that DRM just irritates customers, and Apple now offers almost half the encrypted music in its iTunes Store in higher-quality versions without DRM, at the same price. Amazon.com, meanwhile, sells all its digital music in MP3 format without DRM, as do independent online music stores such as EMusic.
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IBM has unveiled two new enterprise-class storage arrays which, despite being aimed at different markets, can be managed through a single interface and data can be replicated between them.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today the introduction of first-of-its-kind encryption technology and services that deliver the world's first enterprise-class solutions for securing consumer and corporate data privacy.
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Flash memory stick makers are showing off USB (Universal Serial Bus) drives at Computex that have been certified to work with Windows Vista&#39;s ReadyBoot and ReadyBoost functions, which improve boot-up times and the software start-up speeds in PCs.
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NDS, STMicroelectronics and Thomson said on Friday they will develop new encryption technology to foil video piracy, a &#36;3.5 billion problem for broadcasters and movie studios.
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Security restrictions could be compromised in earlier versions of JDK and JRE 6, says vendor Sun.
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Microsoft's Data Protection Manager version 2 is available for download today and and now supports backup to tape or disk of applications, including the use of clusters.