NEW Encrypting Back-End Director

HDS has released a type of back-end director which enables you to store data in an encrypted way on the physical spindle. This way you don't have to worry about data getting in the open when disks are replaced and they are out of your control. Normally when disks get replaced by HDS a very stringent process is in place for tracking and tracing these disks and they are all sent back to the factory for analysis and quality control, however when a subsystem is not under HDS maintenance or spindles normally get handled via a customer process (destruction or safe storage on other premises) there is a chance that one of these spindles gets lost. Although it is quite a task to retrieve data from these disks it is not undo-able. The E-BED encrypts data on the fly when new data is stored and decrypts when data is retrieved from the disk. The performance overhead is next to nothing and the best part is you don't need additional footprint/rackspace for third-party appliances. In addition to that there is only a small additional power requirement and only a 2% additional heat dissipation so it fits perfectly in a "green" storage solution.