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Disk/Volume Encryption
With the recent introduction of MA CMR-17 law, most businesses are now required/encouraged to encrypt all customer data. What if any timeline is there for the Readynas products to support AES encrypt...
You could use iSCSI targets, get your server to mount them using an initiator and encrypt the data and then share that out across your network.
No. The ReadyNAS team is run as a separate business unit. Btw the entire x86 line, NVX, Ultra, Pro, 2100, 3200, 3100, 4200 has been introduced by NetGear.
Many new features have been added. Obviously not all can be added at once, and some remain on a wishlist for longer than others. As chirpa mentioned there are new features which are important
to more users than encryption, that NetGear can be expected to address first.
You can see many Jedi from the Infrant days still on the forums e.g. yoh-dah. It's the same guys driving the development of the ReadyNAS line.
It's still a great product. If a new feature is added it has to be reliable, have proper QA testing etc. Adding encryption is a complex task requiring a range of concerns to be addressed, here's a few of them
that I can think of:
1. How to encrypt the data? (there are a range of ways of doing this).
2. How to make this stable?
3. Testing performance of various degrees of security and determining appropriate levels to offer.
4. Simple GUI that is easy to use.
5. How to integrate this feature so that you can use both encrypted and non-encrypted shares side by side.
6. Consider implications for backup of data and data recovery.
whcp wrote:
Has Netgear stifled Infrant innovation?
No. The ReadyNAS team is run as a separate business unit. Btw the entire x86 line, NVX, Ultra, Pro, 2100, 3200, 3100, 4200 has been introduced by NetGear.
Many new features have been added. Obviously not all can be added at once, and some remain on a wishlist for longer than others. As chirpa mentioned there are new features which are important
to more users than encryption, that NetGear can be expected to address first.
You can see many Jedi from the Infrant days still on the forums e.g. yoh-dah. It's the same guys driving the development of the ReadyNAS line.
whcp wrote:
To bad! We loved (sic) this product!
It's still a great product. If a new feature is added it has to be reliable, have proper QA testing etc. Adding encryption is a complex task requiring a range of concerns to be addressed, here's a few of them
that I can think of:
1. How to encrypt the data? (there are a range of ways of doing this).
2. How to make this stable?
3. Testing performance of various degrees of security and determining appropriate levels to offer.
4. Simple GUI that is easy to use.
5. How to integrate this feature so that you can use both encrypted and non-encrypted shares side by side.
6. Consider implications for backup of data and data recovery.
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