IBM Extends Enterprise-Level Encryption to Midmarket Customers

IBM Extends Enterprise-Level Encryption to Midmarket Customers

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new tape storage offerings based on the Linear Tape Open™ (LTO™) Generation 4 standard, offering new levels of capacity, performance, and function, with an ideal pricing structure for mid-size customers. IBM’s enterprise-class tape encryption functionality is now incorporated into several LTO 4 tape storage products. IBM today builds on its rich history in tape storage innovation to bring its outstanding encryption technology to LTO tape storage systems.

As archived data becomes a larger percentage of overall enterprise data, the ability to archive and retrieve this data dependably, consistently, inexpensively and efficiently is of critical importance to businesses. The IBM tape encryption technology — combined with implementation services for architecture, design, set-up and configuration from IBM Global Services and an enhanced encryption key manager software package — help address these key customer issues.

IBM’s new tape systems offer improved performance of up to 240MB per second data rate, which is 50% faster than LTO Generation 3, and increased cartridge capacity up to 1.6TB, double the capacity of LTO 3. These new tape systems also offer improved management functions, reduced space consumption, improved storage consolidation and enhanced library utilization, over LTO 3. IBM’s LTO 4 tape drive encryption also helps address data security needs with rapid drive-level encryption for high backup performance; data compression and encryption for high cartridge capacities; and reduced need for additional encryption appliances or the drain on server resources.

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