Express DX 1845 Data Security and Reduction Card Delivered by Exar

With security being one of the major concerns of most professionals, particularly those that work with sensitive data and trade secrets, Exar figured it would provide a device capable of securing data in enterprise applications.

Normally, in any system, the data security tasks are carried out by the microprocessors, even though this takes up cycles that would otherwise be used to boost productivity.

As such, Exar created the DX 1845 data security and reduction card, which offloads these tasks from the chip and, thus, reduces the number of microprocessors needed.

This not only reduces overall power requirements, but it also lower capital and cooling expenses, so that the TCO (total cost of ownership) is cut down.

The Express DX 1845 is also said to be very fit for databases with highly confidential information and can secure said data while optimizing network bandwidth and reducing primary storage capacity requirements.

"The expanding digital universe is driving the migration to the cloud as customers are looking for efficient solutions to store, secure, distribute and manage large amounts of data," said Zack Mihalis, senior director of marketing, Datacom and Storage business unit at Exar.

"The Express DX 1845 provides security and data reduction capabilities with the performance, scalability, and power-efficiency required for enterprise environments,” Mihalis added.

“It can simultaneously compress and encrypt data at rates several times faster than two 6 core/12 thread enterprise class x86 processors at a fraction of the power consumption," he went on to saying.

“Data integrity and availability are critical concerns for the enterprise,” further states the press release.

“The DX 1845 card offers end-to-end data integrity to ensure any data path errors are identified and reported. At a higher level, results from operations performed by the card are verified in real time without impacting performance – a capability that can reduce throughput of software-based approaches by 50% or more.”

The DX 1845 is already sampling to consumers and mass production will start later this month, December 2010.