Featured White Papers

SurePath™ ReadVerify™ Appliance - Augmentation of Tape Library, Drive and Media Systems
Tape drive, media, and library manufacturers have done a great job improving quality and reliability. In fact, if everything associated with the backup/recovery process was properly configured, environmentally controlled and data was kept streaming to the drives - many backup failures associated with drive/media combinations would be drastically reduced.

The Case for Router-Based Encryption
Since the beginning of the digital age, there have always been security risks. However, since the amount and importance of data has grown year after year, securing this information has become more critical to all organizations. This paper will first describe the different options for tape encryption in the market place today: host based, appliance based, router based, switch based and device based.

The Key to Successful Data Encryption
A Guide to Crossroads® StrongBox® TapeSentry™ Key Management
In the light of highly-publicized losses of backup tapes containing sensitive information as well the need to fulfill regulatory compliance, ensure customer privacy and abide by internal controls, corporations have grown increasingly concerned about the security and integrity of sensitive data-at-rest.

Proactive Tape Media Management: A Guide to Crossroads’ SurePath™ ReadVerify™ Appliance’s ROI
Crossroads’ RVA proactively validates the integrity of individual tape media and provides a method for monitoring, validating and reporting on the status, performance and utilization of tape media over its effective life. RVA enables companies to be more responsive to tape media errors and failures, resulting in increased data integrity and significant cost savings.

Ensuring Data Integrity: Logical Data Protection for Tape Systems
In today’s information-driven economy, data is more than mission-critical — it’s business-critical. Data is the very lifeblood of any organization, and the ability to protect, store and access this data needs to be an organization’s top priority. The growing importance of data protection in today’s environment is based on a number of factors: data explosion, disaster recovery, regulations and compliance, and litigation and discovery requirements