BOSaNOVA has launched a new security product, the Q3i, a secure tape drive with built-in encryption to protect stored data for the System i and other platforms.

The Q3i tape drive has read capabilities for LTO 1, 2, and 3 media and write/encryption capabilities for LTO 2 and 3 media. Installation takes only minutes, says the company. It is available with SCSI LVD, SCSI HVD, iSCSI, or fibre interfaces and provides dual interlaced Triple DES data encryption. The data is split into two streams and each stream is encrypted separately using 112-bit encryption allowing for 2.69 x 1067 possible keys. It has up to 800 GBs compressed capacity and supports IPL from tape.

Seamus Quinn