The vendor ID for Bloombase assigned by Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is: 187 (Dec) 0x00BB (Hex) For more information, check out https://pcisig.com/membership/member-companies

To use the local security settings to force Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and 2000 to use NTLMv2: Open the Local Security Policy console, using one of the following methods:  The Local Security Policy consol...

Summary Multi-threaded applications having file access on Bloombase StoreSafe NFS virtual storages experience slow response during file read and write. More Information Highly multi-threaded applications with intense file read/write access experiences slow response and fi...

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Corporate financial data, human resource information, customer personal particulars, product pricing and quotations, confidential contracts and decisions, as well as intellectual property (IP) constitute digital assets of an enterprise. These invaluable corporate assets exist as ...

The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) T10 vendor ID for Bloombase is 'BLOOMBAS'. For more information, refer to http://www.t10.org/lists/vid-alph.htm.

Bloombase StoreSafe is a family of hardware appliances with dedicated models suitable for NAS, SAN, DAS and tape storage systems. They are all built upon the same carrier grade organizational proven Bloombase Security core which combines international accepted and NIST certified ...

Bloombase StoreSafe is network-based appliances. For customers having concern on scalability or high-availability, they can multiplex Bloombase StoreSafe appliances for load-balancing and failover for ever increase storage requirements and guarantee storage service level.

Unlike partition/volume-based encryption products, Bloombase StoreSafe protected files remain as normal files in storage systems. Backup and restore utilities SHOULD work directly on storage device without passing through Bloombase StoreSafe. Thus, backup data remain encrypted in...

Bloombase StoreSafe supports the following encryption standards which are safe and strong NIST FIPS-197 AES encryption and decryption NTT/Mitsubishi Camellia encryption and decryption NIST FIPS-46-3 3DES encryption and decryption CAST5, RC2 encryption ...

Bloombase StoreSafe is built based on Bloombase Security Platform which is a flexible framework for plug-ins. Customers can code their own ciphers and plug-in to Bloombase appliances to enjoy proprietary flavors. Bringing total solution to our valued customers is one of our key m...

Cryptographic taks are computational and resource intensive mathematical operations which are not welcomed by most business systems. General purpose microprocessors are not designed specifically for cryptographic work. To ensure shortest processing latency and best throughput, Bl...

No performance impact for plain files and resources in Bloombase StoreSafe-protected storage systems. Encrypted files access differs from plain files by fractions of milliseconds. Bloombase StoreSafe appliances are equipped with fiber-channel and network interface that operate on...

Bloombase StoreSafe operates on TCP/IP, fiber-channel SAN and SCSI storage protocols which are industry communication and storage standards adopted by all operating systems.  

Bloombase StoreSafe Security Server 3 is a feature release of the industry renowned network storage encryption security solution. It contains new functions and features for many security and storage areas. Operating Systems and Hardware Platforms   IBM AIX This version o...

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (or PCI DSS in short) was developed by credit card companies including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover and JCB, etc as a guideline to help merchants and transaction processing companies to prevent credit card fraud, cracki...

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The United States of America Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the “Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act” or GLB Act (GLBA), includes provisions to protect consumers’ personal financial information held by financial institutions. There are three principal par...

Symptoms On a client computer that is connected to an Ethernet switch, you may receive several logon-related error messages during Startup. In the event log, you may receive the following error message: 5719 - No domain controller available NOTE: The source of this error...

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data has brought the Personal Data Privacy Ordinance in 1996. The purpose of the Ordinance is to protect the privacy interests of living individuals in relation to personal data. It also contributes to Hong Kong's continued...

Bloombase StoreSafe officially supports the following fiber-channel host bus adapters (HBA) Cavium/QLogic (http://www.qlogic.com/Products/adapters/Pages/FibreChannelAdapters.aspx) QLx26xx series 16Gb QLx25xx series 8Gb QLx24xx series 4Gb ...

Download Windows support tools if ktpass.exe is missing http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892777 To generate Kerberos keytab file on Windows, invoke the following command in command prompt setspn -a cifs/<spn@realm> <username> ktpass -princ <spn@realm&...

WebDAV (World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a standard for collaborative authoring on the Web. It is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that allows for collaborative editing and file management between users via the Internet. I...

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is an extension to the HTTP protocol, which makes it possible to manage files on a remote Web-Server. WebDAV is preferred when clients has to connect through an insecure network (like the Internet) to reach the remote server...

Microsoft SQL Server does not support creating database files on network drives by default and may produce the following error 5110 "File \\<storesafe hostname>\<virtual storage>\<db>.mdf is on a network device not supported for database files." ...

Put Microsoft SQLServer database to offline ALTER DATABASE SET OFFLINE; GO; Move database to Bloombase StoreSafe virtual storage ALTER DATABASE MODIFY FILE (NAME = ,  FILENAME = '\\\\.mdf'); GO; Bring database to online ALTER DATABASE ...

In Windows Explorer, open 'Tools' menu and start 'Map Network Drive' tool. Follow procedure and specify folder as follows \\<storesafe hostname>\<virtual storage> In command prompt, type in following command net use <drive letter>: \\<storesafe hos...

System error 1219 refers to a situation which the local machine is trying to establish multiple connections to a StoreSafe server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Open command prompt and type below command to inquire the li...

System error 53 refers to network path invalid which can be caused by invalid StoreSafe hostname or invalid virtual storage name. To ensure StoreSafe hostname is valid, type the following command in dos prompt to test     ping <storesafe hostname> To ensur...

System error 86 refers to invalid network password. Ensure user name and password are correct. Re-establish connection again.

To mount StoreSafe NFS virtual storage as a local mount point on UNIX-like (IBM AIX, HP-UX, Linux, etc) environments, execute the following command in console     mount <storesafe hostname>:/<virtual storage> <local mount point> To unmount, &n...

To mount StoreSafe NFS virtual storage on IBM OS/400, execute the following command at console     MOUNT TYPE(*NFS) MFS('<storesafe hostname>:/<virtual storage>') MNTOVRDIR('<mount point>') To unmount, UNMOUNT TYPE(*NFS) MNTOVRDIR('<moun...

To mount CIFS/SMB StoreSafe virtual storage on Mac OS X using command line tool, execute the following command in console mount -t smbfs -o automounted //<username>:<pin>@<storesafe hostname>/<virtual storage> <mount point&...

To mount an NFS StoreSafe virtual storage on Mac OS X using command line tool, execute the following in console mount -t nfs <storesafe hostname>:/<virtual storage> <mount point> To unmount, umount <mount point>

To migrate Oracle database files to StoreSafe CIFS-based virtual storage on Windows, execute the following command in SQL client alter database rename file 'E:\ORADATA\DB1\USERS01.DBF' to '\\<storesafe hostname>\<virtual storage>\USERS01.DBF';

To migrate Oracle redo log files to StoreSafe CIFS virtual storage on Windows, execute the following command on SQL client alter database rename file 'E:\ORADATA\DB1\REDO01.LOG' to '\\<storesafe hostname>\<virtual storage>\REDO01.LOG';

Locate 'Local Area Network' under 'Network and Internet' tool of 'Control Panel' Select network interface which Bloombase StoreSafe is to be bound on Launch 'Properties' tool Uncheck 'File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks' in 'Networking' tab R...

Storage System Support EMC ATMOS Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Google Cloud Storage Microsoft Windows Azure Caringo CAStor Scality EMC Centera NFSv4 / pNFS SMB 2.0 WebDAV Interoper...

Bloombase StoreSafe Security Server 3.4.5.2 is a feature and maintenance release of the enterprise grade application transparent non-disruptive unified storage encryption security solution for organizational customers to meet information regulatory compliance standards.  ...

System sizing for Bloombase StoreSafe is an empirical process rather than something straightly mathematics. Actual processor sizing depends on a number of critical factors including Concurrent processes and threads Concurrent users Number of hosts Number o...

Bloombase StoreSafe is considered a throughput computing infrastructure utility software rather than memory demanding such as relational database management systems (RDBMS) or business intelligence (BI) applications. Memory sizing for Bloombase StoreSafe, similar to processo...

Bloombase StoreSafe Security Server for SAN physical appliance deployment requires presence of dual-port supported FC-HBA in SAN fabric for non-disruptive application transparent SAN encryption. FC(i) - Initiator path for storage host where zoning has to be configure...

Bloombase StoreSafe Security Server for NAS physical appliance deployment requires presence of network interface card (NIC) for application transparent data at-rest encryption.

There is no golden rule on what a typical implementation and deployment process for data protection and specifically for Bloombase StoreSafe. Nevertheless there are some major milestones and checkpoints below which can serve for customer's reference: Preparation Cla...

The qlport_down_retry setting specifies the number of times to attempt to reconnect to a port if it is down when using multipath I/O in a cluster. Use the following setting in the /etc/modprobe.conf file: options qla2xxx qlport_down_retry=3 This option will also ap...

For StoreSafe SAN target, if the host send SCSI command size bigger the HBA support, there will be I/O error and the following log message will appear in system log: ***ERROR***: Too low max_hw_sectors 65535 sectors The workaround is to limit the maximum size of the...

Bloombase StoreSafe delivers scalable data-at-rest encryption at performance with available number of CPU processor-cores and/or vCPU allocated to the software appliance instance. On hardware platform with presence of Intel AES-NI cryptographic acceleration technologies, Bloom...