Atempo adds encryption to data manager

Atempo last week introduced software that lets customers encrypt data on storage devices and protect it from tampering and eavesdropping.

The new Security and Compliance Manager (SCM) software runs on top of Atempo's existing Time Navigator software and provides digital signatures, hierarchical key management, strong encryption, hash algorithms and detailed reporting to protect data. Time Navigator protects and migrates data across heterogeneous environments and multiple storage architectures, including direct-attached, network-attached and Fibre Channel, as well as IP storage-area networks.

SCM can be used for record retention and compliance purposes to make sure data is not altered. It uses Advanced Encryption Standard 256 and Triple-DES encryption.

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Atempo last week introduced software that lets customers encrypt data on storage devices and protect it from tampering and eavesdropping.

The new Security and Compliance Manager (SCM) software runs on top of Atempo's existing Time Navigator software and provides digital signatures, hierarchical key management, strong encryption, hash algorithms and detailed reporting to protect data. Time Navigator protects and migrates data across heterogeneous environments and multiple storage architectures, including direct-attached, network-attached and Fibre Channel, as well as IP storage-area networks.

SCM can be used for record retention and compliance purposes to make sure data is not altered. It uses Advanced Encryption Standard 256 and Triple-DES encryption.

Maurice Auger, IT manager for Data Base File Tech Group (DBFT), a storage-service provider in Victoria, British Columbia, plans to implement SCM.

"We have a storage back-up and archival system we sell on a subscription basis to customers," Auger says. "We use Time Navigator to back up these clients. One of the challenges is these customers need to back up more securely, whether it's financial or medical data."

Auger uses the Blowfish encryption in Time Navigator. With SCM, he will be able to offer clients a variety of encryption methods.

Time Navigator captures and categorizes structured database and unstructured e-mails and files and passes them to SCM, which encrypts them. The data is then backed up, and when necessary moved from more-expensive primary storage to less-expensive secondary storage or tape as it ages and is accessed less often.

Click to see: Atempo's security and compliance module

SCM competes with appliances from Decru and NeoScale, which sit in the data path and like SCM intercept data as it is backed up.

It is one of the first back-up products to include encryption. Symantec, for example, supports encryption in NetBackup, whereas EMC's Legato Networker does not.

Time Navigator software resides on a Windows, Linux, AIX, HP-UX or SGI Irix back-up server and protects all these environments, as well as Mac OS X, NetWare and VMS servers. Time Navigator SCM is priced by the number of servers and storage nodes protected. It starts at $7,500 for 10 clients.

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