MaXXan Systems is announcing today immediate availability of CipherMax, a system comprised of encryption software and hardware accelerators that brings encryption services to its intelligent switch platform.
CipherMax joins MaXXan's numerous applications delivered on MXV250 View image and MXV500 switches, including NAS, disaster recovery, disk-based backup and virtualization.
To activate encryption with CipherMax, customers create security policies that identify an initiator-target pair and assign an encryption key. A similar process can identify also homogeneous groups View image containing hosts or LUNs controlling or storing sensitive data, Maxxan explains.
Pricing for CipherMax was not discussed in today's announcement.
Posted by Mario Apicella on May 23, 2006 06:00 AM
