At EMC World in Orlando, Cisco and RSA recently announced to work together to make the deliverance of encryption products for data at rest on tape, disk and other media. The technology, known as Storage Media Encryption, operates on a Cisco MDS 9500 or 9200 storage blade in the company’s MDS 9000 director-level switch and makes use of RSA’s Key Manager technology to have power over access and use of encrypted systems.
Storage Media Encryption is touted to act as an option to appliance-based approaches from Decru, NeoScale, Vormetric and CipherMax. Users’ that are likely to make use of the Cisco/RSA approach in the medical and financial-services industries, where the safe-keeping of records and financial info is given top priority. At the outset, Storage Media Encryption can be availed just for magnetic tapes. Cisco looks forward to make it available till the end of the year. A later release is said to expand it for deployment with additional storage media.
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Good info..thank you
I guess CISCO and RSA have reached a compromise now. But thanks for sharing.