Storage Nation

After posting my blog on increasing storage utilization with Dynamic Provisioning , I visited a very large customer who was in the process of implementing thin provisioning from different vendors. Our Dynamic Provisioning on the USP V was the first to go live. Thin provisioning from other vendors were still undergoing evaluation.

Late last night I got an email from  Christopher Kusek asking about FICON Encryption of data at rest. “Hey Hu, I was reading a post from 2008 whereby it was stated that there was a solution for data at rest encryption over FICON? http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2008/10/green_encryption_for_storage.html Can you provide a little insight into this, and whether this story is true and there infact is a FICON DAR encryption solution?” Thank you! Christopher I thought I would answer it in this blog since others may have a similar question.