By Calvin Zito In my previous post , I talked a little bit about our New Product Introduction (NPI) process and gave some pointers to a number of things that came from the latest NPI. Here are a few more things to highlight: We announced the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Platform a couple of weeks...
This week is the fall Storage Networking World in Dallas. At the show, we made an announcement today focused on storage security - a topic growing in importance. Threats to storage security are real and can be a significant liability. Seems as though not a week goes by in the press without another story...
Hi Folks, Yesterday I received a letter in the mail at home that started off: Dear Sir or Madam, We are writing to let you know that computer tapes containing some of your personal information were lost while being transported to an off-site storage facility by our archive services vendor. While we have...
-by Jim Hankins We've all being hearing about the difficulties of deploying enough storage to keep up with the growth of unstructured data (email, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, audio, video, etc.). I just saw this article over at Computerworld, http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command...
- by Carlos Martinez With 17,000 attendees and over 350 exhibitors the RSA2008 Conference can be an intimidating experience for IT storage professionals who are investigating privacy solutions for data-at-rest. HP is a comforting and familiar face for these storage professionals because they know HP...
-by Carlos Martinez One of the top storage security vulnerabilities for enterprises today is unencrypted tape. Most enterprises store tape cartridges off the premises as protection against site disaster. This is a good thing. But the unaccounted for cartridge vulnerability arises during transportation...
Last time, I talked about how EMC’s key management product didn’t quite live up to ours hardened appliance. Here, I’ll go into the nitty-gritty details of why this is true. The SKM is a preconfigured server and key management application with no other software loadable by the user or an attacker. Furthermore...
Posted by Carlos Martinez Storage security: Yet another area where EMC is playing catch up to HP StorageWorks. EMC spent over $2 billion on the RSA acquisition in 2006 and still does not have an enterprise-caliber encryption key management solution. We, on the other hand, quietly leveraged the HP Secure...