BDT Storage License Key Management Interoperability Protocol Technology From Cryptsoft

Cryptsoft Pty Ltd, announced that BDT Storage GmbH (BDT) has signed an enterprise license for the company’s Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) technology.

BDT will be able to meet the storage market’s demand for increased security by providing standards based,  and data encryption capability throughout their product range.

As a OEM supplier of tape storage products to many of the world’s largest storage vendors, BDT needed to respond to vendor and end consumer demand for modern, standards based encryption capabilities. With demand driven by mandated requirements for end-to-end encryption solutions, both in the public and the private sectors, BDT turned to Cryptsoft to assist them in creating secure, trusted and interoperable encryption solutions for their entire product range.

“BDT is excited to be able to offer Cryptsoft’s KMIP encryption technology throughout our full product range. As an OEM supplier into some of the world’s largest storage vendors, BDT needed to ensure that the security demands of both the vendor and their end consumers are met,” said Bernd Krause, CEO, BDT. “We had previously leveraged Cryptsoft’s extensive experience in building and customizing security solutions for two of our most successful core products. By signing this enterprise license our customers, and their customers, can now enjoy the seamless integration of our current and future products into any KMIP based enterprise key management environment.“

“Cryptsoft are trusted by the market leading storage, security and cloud vendors because of our conformance to specification; full specification implementation; proven interoperability; and rapid adoption of published KMIP versions,” said Justin Corlett, manager, business development, Cryptsoft. “By choosing to implement our KMIP technologies at an enterprise, BDT has re-confirmed Cryptsoft’s technology leadership and have entrenched Cryptsoft’s status as the preferred provider of key management technologies for the entire IBM and HPE tape drive market.“