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Re: [ADSM-L] LTO Tape Encryption Ideas

2007-04-13 16:21:16
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO Tape Encryption Ideas
From: William Boyer <bjdboyer AT COMCAST DOT NET>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:20:42 -0400
Just saw this announcement:

HP AND IBM PASS MECHANISM COMPLIANCE TESTING FOR LTO ULTRIUM FORMAT
GENERATION 4 TAPE DRIVES

Brings New Generation of Tape Hardware with Drive-Level Encryption,
WORM, Capacity and Performance Enhancements

SILICON VALLEY, CALIF. - (April 11, 2007) - HP, IBM and Quantum, the
three technology provider companies (TPCs) for the Linear Tape-Open
(LTO) Program, today announced that HP and IBM have completed the LTO
Ultrium format generation 4 compliance and data interchangeability
testing process.  With this qualification, HP and IBM will be authorized
to display the LTO Ultrium format generation 4 logo on their tape
drives.

In adherence to its compliance testing, the LTO Program requires that
all licensees pass a series of compliance verification tests, which call
for data interchangeability testing before being issued a license and
the right to display the LTO Ultrium trademark. Compliance testing of
all Ultrium products is completed annually to help ensure that all
manufacturers adhere to the LTO Ultrium format specifications. Buyers
seeking Ultrium format-compliant products should look for the LTO
Ultrium format trademark logo on both tape drives and data cartridges.

"LTO Ultrium generation 4 delivers the features that storage customers
require, including 256-Bit encryption for added security of offsite
media, and higher capacities to support their ever-growing data storage
needs.  This is another key milestone to have successfully passed the
LTO Program's compliance verification tests," said Bob Wilson, vice
president, Nearline Storage Division, HP.

"The ability to introduce products that fully comply with the LTO
Ultrium specification and support data security with tape drive
encryption allows our customers to take advantage of the open format
flexibility, total cost of ownership and investment protection benefits
of LTO generation 4 technology," said Cindy Grossman, vice president,
IBM Tape Systems.

The LTO Ultrium format generation 4 specification, announced in January
of this year, allows for licensees to deliver a doubling of storage
capacity over generation 3, with the LTO Ultrium format generation 4
cartridges storing up to 1.6TB of data compared to 800GB on the previous
generation*. Transfer rates of the new generation are also improved,
with backup and archiving performance reaching speeds up to 240MB per
second in generation 4 versus up to 160MB per second in generation 3*.

As with generation 3, the LTO Ultrium format generation 4 continues to
offer WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) functionality that provides a
cost-effective means for storing data in a non-rewriteable format to
help address compliance requirements.  For additional security,
generation 4 supports 256-Bit AES-GCM encryption capabilities at the
tape drive level that are designed to enable the writing of encrypted
data to the LTO Ultrium tape cartridge, helping to protect the storage
and transport of sensitive information.

LTO Ultrium generation 4 also delivers investment protection for
business, providing for drives with backwards-compatible read-and-write
capability to store and retrieve non-encrypted data with the Ultrium
format generation 3 cartridges, and backward-read capabilities with
generation 2 cartridges.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Greg Yuzik
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 4:07 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: LTO Tape Encryption Ideas

LTO4 will include the encryption capabilities.
http://www.ultrium.com/newsite/html/news_4_17_06.html


: : Greg Yuzik : :


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Kelly Lipp
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 12:32 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] LTO Tape Encryption Ideas

Folks,

I've looked at the Redbook highlighting TS1120 tape encryption to get the 
overall idea.

In the more general case of LTO3 and LTO4 drives, which can encrypt data, how 
are folks implementing this?

Thanks,

Kelly J. Lipp
VP Manufacturing & CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777
lipp AT storserver DOT com

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