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MILPITAS, Calif. (June 30, 2003) --NeoScale Systems, Inc.,
a leading provider of
enterprise storage security solutions for the burgeoning networked storage and
data storage
management markets, today announced that the NeoScale CryptoStor™ family
of storage
security appliances have achieved OpenReadyä tested status with McDATA (Nasdaq:
MCDT/MCDTA), the expert provider of multi-capable storage networking solutions.
This
enables the NeoScale line of products to become part of the McDATA SANtegrityä
Ecosystem of partners to deliver solutions for securing storage networks. The
NeoScale CryptoStor family complements McDATA SANtegrity Suite by adding strong
access control and data
confidentiality.
SANs are no longer closed environments. Controlling access to networked storage
resources and data can be complex due to the growth of more distributed storage, external entry
points, system redundancy, replication technologies, managed services, and extensive
administrative rights. Furthermore, unintentional exposures, internal security breaches, storage
media access, and mounting privacy legislation place storage defenses as a “must do.” This
requires a balance between connectivity and protection to enable companies to prevent the loss /
theft of sensitive information or disruption of their business processes. Enterprise storage
security is evolving to enable organizations to apply a layered defense model within their storage
infrastructure.
"Just as manageability affects an enterprise’s return-on-investment for storage, SAN
security can support an organization’s operational efficiency and reduce the potential for
liability," said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst, the Taneja Group. "McDATA and
NeoScale’s progressive efforts to advance access control and confidentiality capabilities prove
that an integrated solution is the best approach – SANs must be able to enforce a security policy
for protecting storage processes and data access regarding consolidation, remote backup and
privacy compliance applications."
McDATA SANtegrity Security Suite is a purpose-built solution for increasing the
security of storage networks. The SANtegrity Security Suite is a set of features, functions, and
best practices, as well as security classes, and partnerships with leading providers of security
products for McDATA’s multi-capable storage networking solutions.
"The right customer strategy for security solutions is a defense in depth architecture. The
SANtegrity Security Suite enables companies to deploy larger, more secure, and centrally
managed storage networks. By employing McDATA’s SANtegrity, customers can focus on
extending the value of their SANs and on business critical operations such as data center
mirroring, backup, and remote backup," said Mark Stratton, McDATA director of solutions and
alliances. "NeoScale’s solutions complement McDATA’s SANtegrity Security Suite by enabling
our customers to enforce confidentiality of data stored both inside and outside the data center."
NeoScale’s CryptoStor is designed specifically for protecting primary and secondary
storage within networked and distributed storage infrastructures. CryptoStor FC operates inline
within a McDATA zone to provide block-based data encryption and storage "Firewall" services
protecting SAN-attached storage based on user-defined policies. CryptoStor for Tape supports
McDATA switch networks to provide data storage compression, encryption and authentication
services for tape and virtual tape devices. Deployed according to storage application
requirements, the CryptoStor solution reduces or eliminates unauthorized access to stored data-
in-management, in-flight and at-rest. Both products support similar storage security best
practices as McDATA including hardened operating system, secure management connections,
roles-based administration, and clustered/fail-over deployment.
"Companies are seeking ways to leverage their storage investments
which optimize capacity, availability and management," said Jim Dawson, vice president
of business development of NeoScale. "The combination of McDATA’s enterprise-class
switch and SAN management solutions with NeoScale’s enterprise-class storage security
appliances enables customers to reliably meet evolving data protection challenges.
We are very pleased to achieve McDATA SANtegrity tested status and to deliver
secured solutions to our customers."
McDATA and NeoScale have jointly tested interoperability of CryptoStor
with specific McDATA switch products and network configurations. Deployment guidelines
for supported solutions are available from both McDATA Corp. and NeoScale Systems,
Inc. The companies anticipate additional collaborative security efforts including
SANavigator integration, support of the Fibre Channel standard for authentication
(FC-SP), and solution notes pertaining to secure storage management applications
for consolidation, managed services, disaster recovery, and tape vaulting.
About NeoScale
Founded in June 2000, NeoScale Systems Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise
storage security solutions that provide robust data protection for networked and
distributed storage. NeoScale CryptoStor is a family of wire-speed, policy-based
storage security appliances that delivers network storage and media privacy. NeoScale’s
solutions lower the cost of protecting highly accessible, distributed storage
infrastructures, while also enabling greater efficiencies for the management of
storage capacity, consolidation, continuity and availability. For more information,
visit www.neoscale.com.
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