Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Secure Backup 10.2, Oracle's high-performance tape backup solution for Oracle Databases and NAS storage devices. Oracle Secure Backup 10.2 automates tape management throughout its life cycle from creation, expiration to reuse. Existing tape storage pool concepts have been extended to include policy-based management for tape vaulting, duplication, and migration from Virtual Tape Library to physical tape.

    Oracle Secure Backup is a complete enterprise solution for centralized tape backup management with advanced features such as encryption, vaulting, and dynamic drive sharing. Customers can achieve superior data protection at low cost using Oracle Secure Backup's security policies safeguarding data stored on tape and controlling access to backup systems and data. This latest release of Oracle Secure Backup provides policy-based encryption at the domain, host, backup or tape level using AES128, AES192 or AES256 encryption algorithms.

    Oracle Secure Backup provides automated management of all encryption keys associated with tape backups, simplifying the job of the database administrator. Encryption keys are centrally stored on the Oracle Secure Backup Administrative Server, which seamlessly manages decryption during restoration. Corporate data encryption requirements are met with user-defined key management policies including key type (random or user passphrase) and re-key schedule.

    Oracle Secure Backup automates tape management per user-defined policies, which may include duplicating tapes with the same or different retention and vaulting schedule as the original tapes, scheduling rotation (vaulting) of tapes between multiple locations. This latest release of Oracle Secure Backup also includes support for Automated Cartridge System Library Software enabling usage with Sun StorageTek managed tape products and solutions deployed in the most demanding, enterprise IT environments.

    As part of the Oracle product family, Oracle Secure Backup continues optimizing integration opportunities to help maximize Oracle customer return on investment. Utilizing Oracle Secure Backup 10.2 and Oracle Database 11g, enhanced backup performance and reduced size is achieved by eliminating the backup of committed undo. In addition, the Oracle solution reduces CPU overhead during database backup utilizing shared buffers for data movement.

    Oracle Secure Backup 10.2 continues to offer low costs with an innovative, single-component licensing model helping save customers IT dollars and simplifying license management. Customers benefit from dependable tape backup management for their entire IT environment and can rely on a single technical resource for database and file system data protection. Oracle Secure Backup 10.2 delivers a viable alternative to expensive media management products for the enterprise with the additional advantage of one-of-a-kind integration with Oracle Database.

    Oracle Secure Backup with Oracle Database 11g delivers high performance network tape backup for Oracle Databases and file systems on Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms with support for over 200 different tape devices from leading vendors. With a low entry cost of $3,000 per physical tape drive, Oracle Secure Backup is ideal for small and midsized businesses and large enterprises alike.