Category: Data security

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, Uncategorized

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, Enterprise Storage, 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, Enterprise Storage, Software defined storage, Uncategorized

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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LTO 8 tape drive offers flexibility and security with multiple key management/key store options to work in multiple environments

by Javier Justo, Julio Hernandez on March 10, 2018 in backup and recovery, data protection, Data security, Tape and virtual tape storage

The Ultrium 8 tape drive is a new product designed for Open Systems backup and archive applications. Ultrium 8 is an LTO Generation 8 standard...

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IBM Spectrum Scale on Hortonworks HDP Hadoop clusters : A Complete Big Data Solution

by DjDeepak569 on December 5, 2017 in backup and recovery, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Cognitive computing, Data security, Data-centric design, Enterprise Storage, Flash storage, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Integrated infrastructure, Real-time analytics, Software defined infrastructure, Software defined storage, Tape and virtual tape storage, Workload and resource optimization

The ever expanding and accelerating generation of Big data has made mandatory the usage of more efficient and robust storage filesystems. The data migration across...

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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus unlocks your data for real business value and by the way it’s easy to use!

by bobby_g on November 10, 2017 in backup and recovery, data protection, Data security, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Software defined storage

UPDATE: The recent new announcements of IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.5 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus V10.1.1 provide you with more secure capabilities for your secondary...

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DS8000 Security Reference Architecture

by HMYudenfriend on September 29, 2017 in Data security, Enterprise Storage, Flash storage

This whitepaper describes the most recent mechanisms put into place for the DS8000 family of storage systems to help enterprises protect their data. For example,...

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