"Oracle is very committed to the tape business," Jim Cates, vice president of tape development at Oracle, told Enterprise Storage Forum. Writing for internet.com's ESF, Paul Shread also reveals correspondence from Large Tape Users Group (LTUG) executive board president Geoff Cleary who is optimistic about Oracle's plans for its tape product line following a recent LTUG event where Oracle was present.
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Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive has received the FIPS 140-2 Certification at Security Level 2 - a federal data security standard published and maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). With this certification on Sun's eco-efficient tape drive, federal customers are ensured the Sun solution meets the FIPS-validated requirements for product purchase, while other end-users can rest assured that it meets stringent security standards. Sun reports that it is the first and only tape drive vendor to achieve Federal FIPS Certification at Security Level 2.
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When the pace of business demands made it clear to BC Ferry Services in Victoria British Columbia that outsourcing the management of its Oracle and Sybase database applications for reservations, scheduling, human resources (and the servers running them) was no longer a feasible solution, the company turned to Sun for IT infrastructure that would meet its needs and deliver savings and flexibility not available in their former operational environment.
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Sun has selected Fujifilm as its media development partner for the Sun StorageTek T10000B, which was the first tape drive to ship with one terabyte native capacity. The two companies will be collaborating on future developments of this platform.
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The first open source generic communication protocol between a Key Manager and an encrypting device has been released by Sun, enabling partners to adopt this protocol to securely handle encryption keys without additional licensing. The protocol is implemented as a complete toolkit and is downloadable from OpenSolaris under the project name Crypto KMS Agent Toolkit.
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