IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. last month each brought out tape drives that can encrypt data, a capability that should help safeguard information on lost or stolen tapes. Both vendors are adding the ...
In context: The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format for tape-based magnetic data recording was developed in the Nineties as an open-standard alternative to proprietary tape formats. The technology provides ...
This week, IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. are each announcing encryption built directly into a tape drive, which lets users protect data on tapes in case they are lost or stolen. Because the encryption ...