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Secure Data Solution®
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Components
The Secure Data Solution® Contains the following components:
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Tape Emulation Module
Emulates any mainframe tape drive, including 3480, 3490, 3590,
3592, etc., and any FC/SCSI-attached tape drive for midrange
systems, including LTO-1, -2, -3, -4; DLT, etc.
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Compression Module
Once data is sent to the Secure Data Solution, a virtual tape
image is created. When the virtual “dismount” occurs, the data
in the virtual tape volume is compressed. Compression yields
results between 2 and 4 to 1.
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Encryption Module
After the data is compressed, it is encrypted. The standard
encryption method is 128-bit AES.
DES, Triple DES, and Blowfish are also available.
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Library Control Module
The LCM integrates with your on-board tape management systems and
keeps track of the movement of tape volumes around the systems.
The LCM ensures that any data written by any systems or LPAR can
be read by any other system or LPAR. For example, UNIX data can
automatically be handed to a mainframe job.
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Tape Control Module
Any data sets, volsers, or tape images stored on the Secure Data
Solution can be efficiently stacked together and written out to
physical tape cartridges. The SDS can write to FICON-attached
9840, 3590 and 3592 cartridges, and to FC/SCSI-attached drives
such as LTO, DLT, and 3592.
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Automation Control Module
The
entire Secure Data Solution is completely automated. Once rules
for tape emulation, movement, and copying are invoked, the
systems will continue to run with a bare minimum of human
intervention.
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Alerting Module
The Secure Data
Solution includes an intelligent monitoring system that issues
alerts when it detects anomalies before they impact production
and issues alerts via SNMP, e-mail, and even directly to an MCS
or tape console. These alerts can be triggered based on
thresholds, resource usage, bottlenecks, hardware issues, etc.
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