Category: Data security

Innovation via Integration – Proactively Securing Your Unstructured Data from Cyber Threats & Attacks

by Wayne Sawdon, Sandeep Patil on February 24, 2020 in Cloud storage, data protection, Data security, Enterprise Storage, information security, Software defined storage

Threats from cyber attacks are at an all time high. These threat agents can be external, as well as internal, to an organization. Since ‘data’...

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Spectrum Scale Data Security Modes

by Digvijay Ukirde & Sandeep Patil on October 31, 2019 in data protection, Data security, Software defined storage

“Data is the new oil” Like oil has developed the world into a better place data perhaps holds similar potential and is already responsible for...

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How to ensure NFS uses strong encryption algorithms for secure data in motion ?

by Chetan R Kulkarni on July 19, 2019 in Data security, information security, Software defined storage

Ensuring data is secure over the wire as well as on the disk is now a days a common norm. IBM Spectrum Scale provides secure...

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GPFS config remote access with multiple network definitions

by fycheng on May 30, 2019 in Data security, Software defined storage

Setup remote file system access The procedure to set up remote file system access involves the generation and exchange of authorization keys between the two...

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Safeguarded Copy available for the DS8880 Family of Enterprise Storage

by Gail Spear on April 19, 2019 in data protection, Data security, Enterprise Storage

Safeguarded Copy is now available for the DS888x Family of Enterprise Storage with the recommended Bundle 88.51.53.0. Safeguarded Copy provides Cyber Resilience and protection from...

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IBM Spectrum Scale HDFS Transparency Ranger Support

by fycheng on April 1, 2019 in Big Data & Analytics, data protection, Data security, Data-centric design

Apache Ranger is a centralized security administration solution for Hadoop that enables administrators to create and enforce security policies for HDFS and other Hadoop platform...

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Pervasive Encryption with zDMF: Taking steps toward information security’s CIA triad

by John_Hogan_zDMF-TDMF on December 11, 2018 in data protection, Data security, information security

In this article we discuss implementing pervasive encryption using zDMF, and how this effort enhances information security. We first provide a brief overview of information...

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Modern Data Protection, Availability, and Data Re-use for Applications and Virtual Environments

by Devon Helms on August 14, 2018 in data protection, Data security, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

“Virtualization is continuing its march through the data center, fundamentally changing IT environments forever,” states Senior Analyst Steve Scully of analyst firm Evaluator Group. He...

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Modern Data Protection for Your Multicloud Enterprise

by Doug O'Flaherty on August 13, 2018 in backup and recovery, data protection, Data security, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

“Hybrid cloud computing environments… represent the future for deploying IT solutions,” states Steve Scully, Senior Analyst at Evaluator Group.1 A recent study by the Evaluator...

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GDPR Compliance and Unstructure Data Storage

by SandeepRPatil on March 27, 2018 in Cloud computing, Data security, Software defined storage

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance centers around Personal Data and its Protection (article 4, section 1) in the context of any organization...

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