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Wed, January 21, 2009Sun Establishes First Open Source Standard for Storage Encryption Solutions
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Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, February 17th 2009 at 6:13 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-02-17 06:13:59 by Market Wire🞛 This publication is a summary or evaluation of another publication
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the release of the world's first generic communication protocol between a Key Manager and an encrypting device into an open source community. This latest effort in the Open Storage initiative gives customers greater choice, value and flexibility through the resources in open source communities, like the growing Storage community within OpenSolaris. Today's announcement sets Sun apart and enables partners to adopt this protocol to securely handle encryption keys without additional licensing. The protocol is implemented as a complete toolkit and is downloadable from the OpenSolaris website [ http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kmsagenttoolkit/ ]
Governments, finance, healthcare, retail and other vertical markets need to comply with current regulatory laws that create mandates to protect sensitive stored data. To support these requirements, this protocol is available to customers using the Sun StorageTek(TM) KMS 2.0 Key Manager and Sun StorageTek(TM) T9840D, T10000A, T10000B Enterprise Drives, as well as Sun StorageTek HP LTO4 drives shipped in Sun libraries. A number of additional partners are developing products based on this protocol, including EMC, whose RSA security division has talked about releasing it as an option on their RKM Key Manager.
"Open Storage solutions allows customers to break free from the chains of proprietary hardware and software and this new protocol extends this lifeline into the expensive and highly fragmented encryption market," said Jason Schaffer, senior director, storage product management, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Open source equals customer value for encryption solutions and Sun now offers the only solution on the market that works across multiple vendors and suppliers."
By releasing the Sun protocol as Open Source, Sun is taking a major step towards unifying the technology. Sun continues to work with partners in the industry and with appropriate standards bodies such as IEEE 1619.3 Working Group and OASIS to further develop and formalize the interface as an industry standard. RSA is currently developing a solution using this protocol to work with their RKM key manager. IBM drive division is working on supporting this protocol for their IBM LTO4 drive shipped in Sun Libraries. Additionally, Sun has shared this protocol with numerous other industry partners including computer OEMs, back up application providers, disk array and switch manufacturers.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at [ http://sun.com ].
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, OpenSolaris, StorageTekand The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.