In the context of data center fabric security, Brocade provides advanced fabric services for SANs with the Brocade FS8-18 Encryption Blade for use in the Brocade DCX Backbone family. The blade is a high-speed, highly reliable hardware device that provides fabric-based encryption and compression services to secure data assets either selectively or on a comprehensive basis.

The Brocade FS8-18 scales non-disruptively, providing from 48 up to 96 Gbps of disk encryption processing power to meet the needs of the most demanding environments with flexible, on-demand performance. It also provides compression services at speeds up to 48 Gbps for tape storage systems. Moreover, the Brocade FS8-18 is tightly integrated with industry-leading, enterprise-class key management systems that can scale to support key lifecycle services across distributed environments.

Fabric-Based Encryption

Most sensitive corporate data is stored in the data center, and the vast majority of data from critical applications resides in a SAN—enabling organizations to leverage the existing intelligence layer in the storage fabric. This layer provides a centralized framework in which to deploy, manage, and scale fabric-based data security solutions.

The storage fabric enables centralized management to support nearly every aspect of the data center, from server environments and workstations to edge computing and backup environments. As a result, it is an ideal place to standardize and consolidate a holistic data-at-rest security strategy. Organizations can also implement this type of best-practice methodology in other parts of the data center, helping to protect data throughout the enterprise.

Most current industry solutions include either host-based software encryption, device-embedded encryption, or edge encryption—all of which provide isolated services to specific applications but typically cannot scale across extended enterprise storage environments. In contrast, Brocade delivers fabric-based encryption as part of the industry-leading Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture and innovative Brocade Adaptive Networking services

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