Apparently, IBM was/is planning to provide some support for this sort of function under IBM's TotalStorage brand of products (which I believe include both disk and tape). Perhaps your friendly IBM representative might be able to give your company some insight into IBM's future plans in this area.
Brian The following statement of direction was published in Hardware Announcement 105-241, dated July 27, 2005: IBM TotalStorage encryption: To address customers' growing concern with data security, IBM is planning for the development, enhancement, and support of encryption capabilities within storage environments such that the capability does not require the use of host server resources (so called "outboard" encryption capabilities). This includes the intent to offer, among other things, capabilities for products within the IBM TotalStorage portfolio to support outboard encryption and to leverage the key management functions provided by the Integrated Cryptographic Services Facility (ICSF). Brian On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:43:59 -0600, Michael Wickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have been approached with the idea of converting our tape backups >from 3590 to LTO to get encryption for our off-site backups. There are >claims by the vender that they interface with our DASD backup system and >TMS (CA-Disk and CA-1). > >I'm just started asking questions like "What about stand-alone restore >as a recovery option?" > >Has anyone else looked into this or have any comments they would like >to share. > >Thanks for time and responses. > >Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
