Too bad that they still leave all their virtual-tape clients hanging in the wind however. For a large shop that is used to 50-100 virtual-drives online doing work in parallel with 8 physical drives in the back-ground stacking all the data together they now have the choice (?) of going out and buying 50-100 physical drives (which would also mean an additional number of robot's or additional operator head-count). Or they could just slow-down the batch work and not run so much in parallel. What a choice. For those that never went to virtual-devices, it's a good way to encrypt data. But since IBM, STK, EMC and CA have all been pushing the advantages of virtual-tape (and there are so many advantages, its hard not to use it), this offering leaves a lot to be desired.
I am sure that in the future we will see that short-coming addressed. And even though these drives cannot be used with IBM's own 3494/VTS solution, you could still use them with an OEM virtual-tape solution such as CA's or EMC's. Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: IBM announces Encrypting tape drives While I am certain all of you keep a close watch on all of IBM's announcements, I thought I'd mention here that we announced encrypting tape drives earlier this week. They drives encrypt/decrypt data *in the drive itself tape speed*. The performance penalty of host-based encryption is no longer necessary. ICSF on z/OS can even act as the encrypted key store for the drive! Learn more at http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/enewscast/data_encryption/ Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
