Brocade and EMC Team up on Fabric Encryption

May 23, 2008: Brocade and EMC are collaborating on a new development effort that they say will help data centres rapidly and reliably encrypt data for security and compliance purposes.

The expanded relationship will see EMC integrate RSA Key Manager with a fabric-based encryption technology that Brocade is developing, creating an easy-to-use, scalable way to reduce information risk and simplify enterprise data security.

The technology will be an integral part of Brocade’s Data Centre Fabric (DCF) architecture, and is designed to help organisations protect more data with less management time and resource.

“Fabric-based encryption can help reduce the complexity of storage encryption,” said Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst Jon Oltsik.

Oltsik added that the technology enables administrators to manage different encryption for tape, appliances, applications, disk, while allowing 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,” said Oltsik.

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