Crypsoft and BDT Storage Together for Key Management Interoperability Protocol Server for Multistor OEM Tape Library

Cryptsoft Pty Ltd. and BDT Storage GmbH (BDT) have responded to market demand for key management server capabilities in storage products by collaborating on a proof of concept (POC) to embed Cryptsoft’s KMIP (Key Management Interoperability Protocol) server technology into BDT’s recently announced Multistor OEM tape library.

As OEM suppliers to the KMIP market and the storage and handling markets respectively, Cryptsoft and BDT are consistently challenged to anticipate and deliver solutions that meet the emerging requirements from their customers including small-medium and large enterprises. Whenever emerging requirements are independently seen by both companies, the two companies have an history of collaborating and acting decisively to jointly develop POC solutions to meet market demand. This POC activates enterprise key management capability in standalone tape library solutions, delivering improved security and flexibility for smaller deployments right through to resilience and redundancy for larger scale installations.

“As a leading OEM storage provider, we have seen demand for KMIP from the large enterprise customer continue to be strong, but what has surprised us recently has been the rising awareness and demand from the SME market,” said Franz Bucher, VP, R&D, BDT. “Enterprise-grade encryption and key management solutions are frequently assumed to be designed only for the large to medium size enterprise, however this POC to embed Cryptsoft’s KMIP server in our Multistor tape library product shows the SME market that modern, standards-based encryption and key management technology is available and just as accessible to companies of all sizes.“

“Demand to embed KMIP server capability in storage devices is being driven both by the traditional large enterprise and by SME’s,” said Justin Corlett, manager, business development, Cryptsoft. “SME’s know that they need to modernise and improve their encryption and data-security capabilities, primarily because they are more vulnerable than larger companies to the negative effects of the unauthorised exposure of critical business data. For large enterprises, an embedded KMIP server in their storage solution opens up a valuable range of complex key handling scenarios that are needed to deal with the ever-increasing intricacy of commercial and regulatory realities. Having an embedded KMIP Server in a ca,le storage device ‘just makes sense’ because it provides flexibility, control and modern security to all companies, of all sizes.“

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2017.07.05 | Press Release