IBM TS7700 R3.3 Introduces Support for TS1150 Tape Drive

And for external key management of disk-based encryption

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on September 2, 2015 at 2:50 pm

IBM TS7700 R3.3 introduces support for the TS1150 tape drive and for external key management of disk-based encryption.

IBM TS7700 Release 3.3 supports the use of TS1150 tape drives as physical, back-end tape drives for TS7700 tape-attached systems.

One additional 3952 drive type may be attached to the same TS7700 system to support read-only access to stacked tape cartridges on media that is not readable by the TS1150.

The IBM SKLM external key manager may now be used for disk-based encryption in encryption-capable TS7700 systems.

Key prerequisites: TS7700 R3.3 machine code can only be installed on TS7720 Model VEB or TS7740 Model V07. Release 3.3 machine code is not compatible with previous generations of TS7700 server models.

Planned availability date: September 4, 2015