Re: Thoughts on VTL solutions -- MIDRANGE-L

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On 5/10/2020 6:33 PM, Laurence Chiu wrote:

> Well that might be complicated by the fact we might need to ship the
> target VTL to another site. And our security folks are nervous of
> that because of the confidentiality of the data on it. So if the BRMS
> backup is not encrypted they are doing to want the data written to the
> new VTL encrypted. That might impact deduping - I don't know.

You think clearly!!

Now Jim is not. ;-) He mentioned setting up BRMS encryption is simple, and on that point he is correct. BUT if using encryption at BRMS level then throw DeDup out the window. Think of it this way: If your encrypted data can be dedupped then "Your encryption sucks!"

FORTUNATELY All the VTL vendors support encrypted disk at rest. Each uses some flavor of USB Key required to start the system up when encryption is enabled. So you ship the VTL WITHOUT keys and transport them another way, possibly with a person, or via another package. Your data is safe.

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