While LTO4 is slated for release later this year, it is important to 
note that key management issues have not been resolved. I'm not sure if 
Symantec has a road map for when they might include key management with 
NBU, nor am I sure when any other vendor might release key management 
software for their products. IBM is supposedly working to acquire some 
key management functionality from Spectralogic. Right now, Spectralogic 
is the only library vendor that supports encryption at the library 
level, hence, they have a working key management system. Additionally, 
encryption will be available in SCSI versions of the drives initially. 
FC encryption won't be available until next year sometime.


Chris Freemantle wrote:

>Another option available "later this year" will be LTO-4 tape drives 
>which will have the option to encrypt data in the tape drive. Of 
>course, it will only help if you can upgrade your hardware to LTO-4, 
>and can feed the tapes fast enough (probably around 50MB/sec to keep 
>them happy).
>
>Also, it doesn't encrypt the data until it gets onto the drive - 
>maybe an issue for some.
>
>oh well.
>
>At 11:20 am -0500 6/7/06, Ed Wilts wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:23:02AM -0400, Bhangui, Sandeep - BLS CTR wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>         What are the tools available to doing encryption outside of
>>> Netbackup and than taking that encrypted data to tape?? Are these
>>> products expensive??? We may have a requirement at our site for such
>>>      
>>>
>> > thing for few servers.
>>    
>>
>
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