My co-workers and I have been asked to estimate the cost of encrypting TSM tapes that are sent to our offsite vault. One of the options we are examining is purchasing some TS1120 tape drives and installing them in our existing 3494 tape library.
Our TSM server runs under SLES 9 Linux on a zSeries mainframe. The server level is currently 5.3.4.0, but it will probably be upgraded to 5.4 in the next few months. Is it possible to use library managed encryption with our combination of library and server platform? Is it possible to use system managed encryption with our combination of library and platform? We have a hot site contract with SunGard. We have always run our annual tests at the Philadelphia location, but we could be sent to another city if we declared a disaster and the Philadelphia site was being used by another customer. Can SunGard provide TS1120 tape drives with encryption capability?
