IBM and data high availability and security company Security First have entered into a joint development deal to deliver increased performance, security and high data availability to storage and cloud-based computing customers.
Security First’s patented cryptographic data-splitting application will be integrated with the parallelized hardware acceleration capabilities of IBM’s wire speed processor technology.
IBM’s wire speed processor technology is designed to enable advanced throughput and connectivity, along with flexibility and scalability needed to meet the changing demands of workload optimised systems in data centers and across networks.
Particularly, Security First’s SPxCore, SPxBitFiler and SPxConnect products will be integrated directly onto IBM’s wire speed system on a chip.
IBM Fellow and Next Generation Computing Systems and Technology VP Bijan Davari said the combination of IBM’s wire speed processor technology and Security First’s cryptographic technology can deliver cryptographic performance, throughput and scalability for advanced security and storage applications at full network fabric line rates.
Security First CEO Mark O’Hare said through their combined technologies, Security First and IBM will deliver scalable data security and high availability directly to public and private sector customers that require the highest levels of secure data transmission and storage in the cloud.
The combined cryptographic security solution from IBM and Security First is expected to be available during the first half of 2012.
