Brocade, EMC announce collaborative development effort
ConvergenceAsia staff
08/06/2008

Data centre networking solutions provider Brocade, and information infrastructure solutions provider EMC, have announced a collaborative development effort that extends the scope of their longstanding relationship and will help enable data centre customers to more quickly and reliably encrypt data for security and compliance purposes.

As part of this expanded alliance, the two companies plan to integrate technologies from RSA, The Security Division of EMC - including the RSA Key Manager for the Datacenter solution - with the planned fabric-based encryption technology that Brocade is currently developing.

The forthcoming encryption capability from Brocade will be an integral part of the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture and is designed to help IT organisations protect more data with less management time and resource.

Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will work closely to allow this new encryption capability to interoperate with RSA Key Manager for the Datacenter technology. RSA Key Manager for the Datacenter is engineered as an easy-to-use, centrally administered encryption key management system that can manage encryption keys at the database, file server, and storage layer. It is designed to simplify the deployment and ongoing use of encryption throughout the enterprise and to help ensure that information is properly secured and fully accessible when needed at any point in its lifecycle.

"Fabric-based encryption can help reduce the complexity of storage encryption," said Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst Jon Oltsik. "Today, administrators may manage different encryption for tape, appliances, applications, disk and more. Fabric-based encryption allows for a single, common method of encrypting of all types of data. Fabric-based encryption can also help users overcome performance issues associated with other approaches to data encryption and reduce the risk that some storage-resident data may be left exposed."

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