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Direct-to-Tape Encryption for ESCON and FICON Mainframe Users—Securely Protect Mainframe Data with no MIPS Impacts, no Mainframe Process or Software Changes and Enterprise-wide Key Management
With Luminex’s Channel Gateway, enterprises can access the advantages offered by the open systems storage world of flexibility, reliability, high performance and reduced total cost of ownership. And with the Channel Gateway, mainframe enterprises can take advantage of the best enterprise-level encryption solutions available to protect their data at the fabric level, with no impact to CPU cycles (MIPS-less) and no change required to mainframe tape management software. With the Channel Gateway, mainframe customers can protect their data with encryption and state-of-the-art global key management from the industry’s leading encryption vendors. Channel Gateways is the only fabric-based direct-to-tape encryption solution available and is clearly superior to the host-based or device based mainframe encryption solutions available today.
- Unlike host-based encryption, Luminex’s Channel Gateways preserve mainframe CPU cycles (zero MIPS impact!) and require no mainframe process or software changes.
- Unlike device-based encryption, Luminex’s Channel Gateways provide a single, enterprise-wide global key management solution, vastly simplifying enterprise data security management.
The Channel Gateway allows mainframe enterprises to access and use open systems storage solutions to store their data, fully encrypted and protected with an enterprise-wide global key management solution, at significant cost savings with no performance degradation. The Channel Gateway streams data between the mainframe and the Fibre Channel fabric. The Channel Gateway seamlessly sends data to an encryption appliance where the data is compressed, encrypted and digitally signed and then sent to the tape drive or tape library. Tape encryption appliances provide global key management technology for strong key management and data recovery. The Channel Gateway is highly reliable, has zero MIPS impacts, requires no changes to the mainframe processes or software and allows deployment of an enterprise-wide global key management solution.
The Channel Gateway product line is installed and in production at leading financial institutions and is currently operating with StorageTek 9310 tape libraries with 9840 tape drives, StorageTek 9840 tape drives and IBM 3494 tape libraries with 3590 and 3592 tape drives for automated, encrypted tape production.
Channel Gateway Direct-to-Tape Data Sheet
DATA SHEET - TAPE ENCRYPTION (3.8 MB)
INSTALLATION & USERS MANUAL (2.8 MB)
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