Sep 11

For all businesses, there is a need to protect your data. That need extends through the entire life of that data and the hardware that it resides on. For many small and midsize businesses, this means that come time to upgrade to new solutions and dispose of old hardware, they must destroy or erase the old harddrives. There is a cost associated with that as well as the risk of data leak.

IBM has come up with a new solution that it just unveiled. It is a hardware based encryption system. The IBM System x Vault


is designed to provide a simple way for SMB’s to protect their data without compromising performance. Because it is a hardware based solution, there is no degradation in performance like you get with software based systems.

The System x Vault is compatible with the x series server models x3650, x3400, and x3500 and runs for about $1,099. The unit is an adapter for those servers that provides encryption for its harddrives.

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