This whitepaper describes the advantages of the integrated, software-based Nimble Storage SmartSecure encryption feature. SmartSecure enables you to encrypt data and to shred it on a per-application basis. It saves storage capacity and operations time,and it requires no custom drives,dedicated firmware, or expensive licensing.
You can enable SmartSecure on any Nimble platform by simply activating the feature for the volumes that need it. SmartSecure uses existing drives, and it has minimal impact on performance. The encryption works seamlessly with other Nimble features such as snapshots, replication, and zero-copy cloning; it can also be implemented across SSDs and HDDs within the array and on external shelves. In consolidated and multi-tenant storage environments, you can enable SmartSecure encryption on a per-application (volume) or per-array basis. You can also shred data on a per-volume basis, which is especially useful for compliance and sensitive data environments and for cloud service providers. SmartSecure requires you to encrypt stored data only once. When data is compressed by the Nimble array, capacity savings are preserved because there is no need to reconstitute the data that you want to secure. Encrypted data that is replicated to another site remains encrypted during transfer and is stored securely on the target system.
Click here to access the full white paper: SmartSecure Encryption Technical White Paper
