Tom Marchant wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:04:42 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote:
Every record of every file is in a unpublished, often proprietary  format.

Security by obscurity?  It often is easy to figure out.

Agreed. Security by obscurity is no security. Encryption is not obscurity (known, proved algorithm, secret key).

The data is then compressed and written in yet another proprietary format over several physical devices.

Iceberg and RVA compress data.  Other DASD subsystems don't, AFAIK.  Does
STK still market the SVA?

Yes, but it's Sun now. SVA is still produced because this is the same box which works as VSM (kind of virtual tape server).



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