Editor’s Choice for July

July 2021 COT’S PICKS

Rugged PL-50240 IoT Edge Computer Handles Robust Environmental Challenges

WIN Enterprises, Inc. announces the PL-50240. PL-50240 is a fanless embedded system with IP66 support, smart venting, Wi-Fi / LTE / CANBUS, powered by the Intel® Atom Processors. The unit provides flexible handling of Outdoor IoT, traffic management, environmental energy facilities, weather station support, and operations in extreme climates such as high altitudes, and more.

For those 24/7 outdoor operations requiring a ruggedized x86 computer that can be deployed unprotected at the production edge, the unit offers a compact platform that delivers on performance and reliability. The PL-50240 is designed to deal with climate changes in all conditions. The PC box device provides the ability to withstand environmental insults such as intrusive water and dust. It is designed with a smart vent that drains water automatically. The white enclosure helps it to handle wide-temperature ranges from -40 to 70° C to allow reliable operation even in direct sunlight.

To support wireless communications, an external SIM slot eases the task of changing out SIMs. A high-gain antenna ensures high-quality communications. Flexible I/O settings, such as a combination port that supports 2 CANs and 2 COMs and selective display ports (HDMI/VGA), helps meet the needs of a wide variety of applications.

Integrated Windows Ecosphere enables support for a variety of operations. This feature is a built-in, powerful Intel Atom processor that natively supports rich software frameworks further reducing the possibility of performance loss and making installations more flexible.

Features

Ruggedized, IP67 grade PC BOX Intel® Atom® Processor E3900 series Smart Vent (drains off water automatically) Communications (Wi-Fi/LTE/CANBUS) Wide temperature support: -40 to 70° C and Wide voltage capability: 9~36V 4GB DDR3 onboard, 64G eMMC Optional Wi-Fi, LTE, CanBus BIOS with integrated security boot Outdoor IoT Edge Computing

Applications include data collection and transmission for traffic management, support for green-energy facilities, meteorological station support, shore facilities, support for high-altitude or high-latitude locations. In addition, manufacturing facilities with high humidity and extreme temperature, such as refrigerated environments, are supported.

WIN Enterprises, Inc. www.win-ent.com

Microchip Unifies Management of “Terrestrial Time” and “Live-Sky Time” Sources to Enable Resilient Timing for Critical Infrastructure

The company’s TimePictraÒ 11 timing infrastructure management system works with its BlueSkyTM GNSS Firewall to create a unified view for a more secure network timing architecture

Today’s 5G wireless infrastructure has more complex, higher-density synchronization needs than previous-generation networks and is highly dependent on the integrity of “live-sky” timing signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announced it has integrated its BlueSky GNSS Firewall with its TimePictra 11 synchronization monitoring and management platform to protect 5G networks and other critical timing infrastructure from Global Positioning System (GPS) signal jamming and spoofing while providing single-console visibility across the entire timing architecture.

“Microchip’s TimePictra system improves overall situational awareness by managing network timing synchronization as well as our GNSS firewall that improves a network’s resilience through real-time GPS threat detection and mitigation,” said Randy Brudzinski, vice president, Frequency and Time Systems business unit. “Our solution’s scalability is particularly valuable for mobile operators who can use TimePictra to monitor GNSS-based source clocks along with our secure network-based timing distribution solutions to deploy a highly resilient timing architecture for their transition to 5G.”

In addition to requiring precise timing from GNSS sources, critical infrastructure operators need accurate timing to be distributed across their networks so they can ensure reliable performance and service delivery. TimePictra provides full control and monitoring for resilient timing architectures created with Microchip’s broad product portfolio including its TimeProviderÒ 4100 grandmasters for 5G network synchronization. It also monitors the health and performance of these networks’ distributed Precision Time Protocol (PTP) client clocks. Integrating BlueSky GNSS Firewall management into the TimePictra console view now gives operators a unified picture of the entire timing architecture and all timing sources.

Beyond supporting 5G deployments, TimePictra enables aviation, railway, and maritime ports with a regional, national or global view of GNSS reception. TimePictra in combination with BlueSky GNSS Firewalls monitors key GNSS observables to detect live sky signal anomalies and deliver early alerting so that operators can engage alternate procedures that do not rely on GNSS. These capabilities are increasingly important where public safety is dependent on the position and navigation for daily operations.

Microchip www.microchip.com

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BittWare Extends IA-Series of Intel® Agilex™ FPGA-based Accelerator Product Line to address Data-Intensive Compute, Network and Storage Workloads

BittWare, a Molex company, announced the expansion of its IA-Series of FPGA accelerators featuring Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs. The BittWare IA-Series of FPGA accelerators are designed to help customers develop and deploy next-gen edge and cloud applications, with greater flexibility and speed while reducing risk.

The new IA-420F low-profile PCIe card and IA220-U2 computational storage processor join the IA-840F to provide a choice of three form factors popular in data center and network infrastructure. The trio of products are fully PCIe Gen 4 compliant and include application reference designs, in addition, to support for the oneAPI™ programming model, which allows hardware developers the ability to create domain-specific FPGA platforms and application developers to build cross-architecture, single-source compilation designs.

“BittWare is excited to leverage Intel’s Agilex technology to support three of the most prevalent accelerator form factors used for data center and network infrastructure,” said Craig Petrie, vice president, Sales, and Marketing of BittWare. “As a part of Molex, we are uniquely positioned to drive technology innovations in enterprise-class products, which empowers our customers to deploy Intel Agilex FPGA-based solutions at the card and server-level with reduced risk and cost.”

According to Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020: Empowered Edge, by 2023, more than 50% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud, up from less than 10% in 2019.[1] FPGAs play an increasing role at the edge where real-time data with critical latency, bandwidth, and security requirements need to be processed efficiently. Within the cloud, FPGA heterogeneous computing solutions are required to process vast amounts of both structured and unstructured data efficiently through high-performance computing and big data analytics to derive value and orchestrate smart devices in the field.

Expanded Accelerator Family Increases Deployment Flexibility

The new IA-420F low-profile PCIe card is designed to address SmartNIC and computational storage use cases. This half-height, half-length single-width PCIe card is compatible with almost all server and edge platforms. The IA-420F supports multiple 100G network ports for network and sensor processing applications with high data ingest requirements. A full 16-lanes of PCIe Gen 4 provides customers with up to twice the bandwidth normally available for FPGA-augmented systems, thereby making it compelling for data analytic workloads.

The IA-220-U2 computational storage processor is designed to address NVMe computational storage workloads. Conforming to the popular U.2 form factor, the IA-220-U2 features an Intel Agilex FPGA with an embedded ARM processor subsystem and support for PCIe Gen 4. This energy-efficient, flexible compute node can be deployed within conventional U.2 NVMe storage arrays and is chassis front-serviceable. The IA-220-U2 also can serve as a deployment-friendly computational storage processor within data center platforms that have a surplus of U.2 slots, but no available PCIe slots.

The IA-420F and IA-220-U2 join the IA-840F full-size PCIe card, which was introduced in November 2020, to provide a complete family of solutions for the most demanding data center environments.

“Intel Agilex FPGAs are delivering industry-leading performance and power efficiency, and with cross-platform tools including the oneAPI™ toolkits, offer customers the adaptability and agility to innovate for diverse workload transitions in 5G, network, cloud, and edge,” said Deepali Trehan, vice president Data Platforms Group and General Manager, Programmable Solutions Group Product Marketing at Intel. “BittWare and Molex, both members of the Intel Partner Alliance program, solve some of the toughest data-centric compute, network, and storage challenges. By taking advantage of Intel Agilex FPGAs and the oneAPI toolkits, BittWare can successfully help transition enterprise customers from proofsof-concept to volume deployments while addressing qualification, validation, life cycle management, and support requirements.”

BittWare www.bittware.com

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Safety-certifiable 3U modules lower risk and reduce integration costs for critical avionics applications

Mercury Systems Inc. announced its new line of safety-certifiable 3U OpenVPX™ SOSA-aligned avionics modules designed to accelerate critical avionics applications and streamline subsystem development and platform safety certification.

“Designing, building, testing, and certifying flightready mission computers is a costly and time-consuming endeavor,” said Jay Abendroth, vice president, Mercury Mission. “System architects require open standard, safety-certifiable rugged boards to accelerate subsystem development, lower risk, and support advanced mission workloads like artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and converged applications. Using Mercury’s purpose-built, proven DAL-certifiable SOSA-aligned 3U OpenVPX modules, designers can expedite the certification process while saving time and money.”

The rugged processing, video, storage, and power modules feature BuiltSAFE™ proven, modular, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) elements complete with hardware and software artifacts to deliver smooth performance and simplify integration. DO-178-certifiable developmental board support packages (BSPs) support Green Hills Software, Lynx Software Technologies, WindRiver, and other real-time operating systems (RTOS) software to streamline integration and the certification process.

“Aerospace and defense customers are looking to quickly deploy and certify subsystems with safety-critical and platform technologies,” said Pavan Singh, vice president of product management for Lynx Software Technologies. “Our decade-long partnership with Mercury enables us to dramatically accelerate time to deployment, reduce development cost, and maximize interoperability for mission-critical avionics applications.” The SBC3515-S module included in the new product lineup is the first certifiable Intel® Core™ i7 single-board computer with the latest generation processor on the market, delivering up to 40x better performance than traditional safety-certifiable processing boards.

“Mercury has been an Intel partner for many years, providing ruggedized systems based on Intel semiconductor products to the aerospace and defense markets,” said Tony Franklin, general manager, Intel Federal, and Aerospace Group. “We are excited to grow our partnership to include the use of Intel’s high-performance multicore processors to accelerate critical avionics applications. Systems developed by Mercury with Intel hardware and the Intel Airworthiness Evidence Package can reduce development time for avionic subsystems while lowering risks and costs.”

“As the only real-time operating system to be part of a successful multicore certification to DO-178C and CAST-32A, the INTEGRITY-178® tuMP™ RTOS enables maximum utilization of the high-performance Intel cores even in mixed-criticality systems, up to and including DAL A,” said Richard Jaenicke, director of marketing for safety and security-critical products at Green Hills Software. “Our collaboration with Mercury Systems enables system integrators to develop, certify, and deploy multicore avionics systems with the lowest risk, lowest overall cost, and fastest time to deployment.”

Mercury Systems Inc. www.mrcy.com

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Mil-Spec Portable Computer now with Add-On Power Attachment for Military Simulation Training and C4ISR Offered by Acme Portable

Acme Portable Machines Inc. is introducing the NotePAC III PRO V rugged laptop - now complete with battery power. The new Power PAC is a 2.75” deep accessory that hooks seamlessly onto the back of the system, providing 4+ hours of battery life.* The kit includes 6x 81Whr hot-swappable batteries. Theoretically, the system can now run extendedly without ever losing power. By physically mating to the laptop to form a single transportable package, the system is still robust, reliable, and ergonomic to use.

The batteries can be charged in two ways: with an external charger provided by Acme Portable or by the system while attached. Acme provides a 600w 100-240V AC-DC power adapter putting out 19V and 31.6A through a mil-spec power connector. This power adapter can power the system while simultaneously charging all 6x batteries.

The NotePAC III PRO V is now easily the most powerful computer in its class. Triple 17.3” 144Hz stereoscopic displays with a 16 core Xeon, 2x expansion slots, and 4x hot-swappable SSD drive bays are protected by a machined aluminum chassis. Dual 10G Fiber connections are available for Network Attached Storage (SAN/NAS), and a CAC card reader makes securing access convenient. Additional 10G fiber ports and 4x Gigabit ports mean you never run out of connectivity. Three HDMI output ports allow all three of the displays to be duplicated as required in the CIC. The NotePAC III has passed Mil-Std 461 (EMC/EMI), DTE-901E (Shock/Torpedo Strike), and 810G (environmental).

The NotePAC III PRO V is ideal for GPU-intensive applications such as security and surveillance, geospatial intelligence, UAV command and control, and 3D simulation training. The add-on battery kit allows for uninterrupted use in the field for any applications that demand rugged reliable processing power in a highly portable package.

*Actual run-time may vary according to environmental conditions, workload, battery age, etc. With everything maxed out, 100% CPU utilization, and Passmark system test maxing out the stress, battery life still lasts for over 1.5hrs.

Acme Portable Machines Inc. www.acmeportable.com

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Supermicro Boosts Performance for HPC and AI Applications with Optimized Servers Featuring New NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs, High Performance 200G Networking Accelerates HPC and AI Applications

Super Micro Computer, Inc. announces a wide range of Supermicro servers will support the latest NVIDIA technologies. Both 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors or 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processor-based servers will be available that incorporate the new NVIDIA® A100 80GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs. With these new technologies, Supermicro systems will speed up HPC simulations and analytics applications. Moreover, AI applications, including training, inference, and recommendation engines, will run faster than previous generations of systems.

Supermicro servers, designed with a Building Block Solutions® approach, give Supermicro a first to market advantage when incorporating new technologies. State-of-the-art accelerated computing options

can be quickly integrated and tested, bringing faster and more powerful systems to demanding customers quicker than other vendors.

“Supermicro has a long history of bringing systems supporting the latest NVIDIA products to market faster than other server manufacturers,” said Charles Liang, president, and CEO, Supermicro. “The new products from NVIDIA will give our customers the ability to solve complex HPC and AI challenges much faster than before, decreasing their TCO. We continually bring application-optimized servers with the latest technologies available, such as our GPU and SuperBlade® systems, to help accelerate customer’s HPC and AI workloads.”

The new NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB GPU will enable faster execution of AI and HPC applications, as bigger models can be stored in the GPU memory. In addition, future systems will include networking between high-performance servers with current and future InfiniBand capabilities.

The GPU SuperServer SYS-420GP-TNR with dual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors supports up to ten single or double width GPUs, including the new NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs. Also, the AS -4124GSTNR server contains dual AMD EPYC 7003 processors with up to eight single or double width GPUs, with the new NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs. These new 80GB GPUs from NVIDIA will enable more extensive data sets to be held in memory, accelerating computationally-intensive HPC and AI applications.

“Supercomputing has the potential to transform entire industries and help solve some of the toughest problems they face,” said Dion Harris, lead technical product marketing manager, accelerated computing at NVIDIA. “The extreme performance of the NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA NDR InfiniBand supported by Supermicro servers provides researchers with the unparalleled acceleration

required to pursue the toughest industrial HPC challenges in the world.”

Multiple NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe devices can be installed in a range of Supermicro systems, allowing for flexible AI computing. By implementing NVIDIA’s Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology, organizations can guarantee a high quality of service for single applications and as a service for multiple users concurrently. In addition, with the larger memory available, data will not have to be moved between CPU memory and GPU memory, allowing for higher GPU utilization.

Leveraging NVIDIA NDR 400Gb/s InfiniBand technology with In-Networking Computing, networking tasks are offloaded, enabling a dramatic leap in performance is enabled, which is required for HPC, AI, and hyper-scale cloud infrastructures. The new networking performance will allow applications designed to run on multiple systems, such as the Supermicro SuperBlade and BigTwin® servers, to produce results faster, enabling new insights into complex problems. Integrated systems combining industry-leading cards, cables, and switches on a complex HPC application will soon be able to share data and communicate twice as fast as before.

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Xilinx Versal HBM Series with Integrated High Bandwidth Memory Tackles Big Data Compute Challenges in the Network and Cloud

Latest in Versal ACAP series delivers unmatched convergence of fast memory, secure connectivity, and adaptable compute in a single platform for data center and network operators

Xilinx, Inc. introduced the Versal™ HBM adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), the newest series in the Versal™ portfolio. The Versal HBM series enables the convergence of fast memory, secure connectivity, and adaptable compute in a single platform. Versal HBM ACAPs integrate the most advanced HBM2e DRAM, providing 820GB/s of throughput and 32GB of capacity for 8X more memory bandwidth and 63% lower power than DDR5 implementations. The Versal HBM series is architected to keep up with the higher memory needs of the most compute-intensive, memory-bound applications for data center, wired networking, test and measurement, and aerospace and defense.

“Many real-time, high-performance applications are critically bottlenecked by memory bandwidth and operate at the edge of their power and thermal limits,” said Sumit Shah, senior director, Product Management and Marketing at Xilinx. “The Versal HBM series eliminates those bottlenecks to provide our customers with a solution that delivers significantly higher performance and reduced system power, latency, form factor, and total cost of ownership for data center and network operators.”

High bandwidth, secure connectivity

Built on the foundation of the Versal Premium series, Versal HBM devices incorporate power-optimized networking cores for high bandwidth, secure connectivity. The Versal HBM series offers 5.6Tb/s of serial bandwidth with 112Gb/s PAM4 transceivers, 2.4Tb/s of scalable Ethernet bandwidth, 1.2Tb/s of line rate encryption throughput, 600Gb/s of Interlaken connectivity, and 1.5Tb/s of PCIe® Gen5 bandwidth with built-in DMA, supporting both CCIX and CXL. This broad set of hardened IP provides off-theshelf, multi-terabit networked connectivity for a breadth of protocols, data rates, and optical standards, enabling optimal power and performance and the fastest time to market.

Adaptable compute

As an adaptive, heterogeneous compute platform, the Versal HBM series is engineered to accelerate a wide range of workloads with large data sets, integrating adaptable engines for low-latency hardware parallelism, DSP engines for AI inference and signal processing, and scalar engines for embedded compute, platform management, and secure boot and configuration. Unlike fixed-function accelerators, the Versal HBM series can dynamically reconfigure hardware in milliseconds to adapt to evolving algorithms and emerging protocols, eliminating the need for hardware redesign and re-deployment.

Transforming networks and data centers

This convergence of adaptable compute with high bandwidth memory and multi-terabit connectivity makes next-generation cloud acceleration and secures networking a reality. Versal HBM ACAPs deliver superior performance and power efficiency for big data workloads including fraud detection, recommendation engines, database acceleration, data analytics, financial modeling, and deep learning inference for natural language processing (NLP). By improving runtimes by orders of magnitude over modern server-class CPUs, while supporting 4X larger data sets,2 users can deploy applications with massive, connected data sets with far fewer and lower-cost servers.

Similarly, Versal HBM ACAPs deliver network scalability and performance for 800G routers, switches, and security appliances. A traditional network processing unit (NPU) implementation of an 800G next-generation firewall would require multiple NPU devices and DDR modules, whereas a single Versal HBM ACAP eliminates external memories and performs packet processing, security processing, and adaptable AI-infused anomaly detection at dramatically lower power and a fraction of the form factor. The series delivers major CapEx and OpEx savings for cloud and network providers by enabling customers to use fewer devices and systems to implement their applications.

Xilinx, Inc. wwww.xilinx.com

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Gains Approval for More Government Workloads

With new FedRAMP High JAB and DISA IL5 accreditations, more of Oracle’s cloud services are now available to US government organizations

Oracle is making more cloud services available to customers in its US Government regions. Specifically, Oracle has attained FedRAMP High Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) from the Joint Authorization Board (JAB) and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Impact Level 5 (IL5) accreditation for IaaS and PaaS, which include an extended set of cloud services for government customers to leverage, including Oracle Digital Assistant and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, to boost efficiency without straining budgets or compromising security.

Oracle Digital Assistant can help government offices address citizen questions and concerns in real-time using conversational interfaces for web-based or mobile cloud and on-premises applications. The Oracle Cloud VMware Solution gives customers control to extend or migrate existing virtualized on-premises environments to the cloud using familiar VMware tools. The solution delivers FedRAMP High security, predictable costs, and a single source for technical support along with clear authority over systems control.

“Oracle continues to double-down on our commitment to equip government customers with innovative, highly secure, high-performing cloud services,” said Rand Waldron, VP Global Government, Oracle. “With the addition of Oracle Digital Assistant and Oracle Cloud VMWare Solution into OCI government regions, the U.S. DoD and other federal customers can unlock innovation in the cloud with the peace of mind that these tools meet the high levels of compliance and security standards. We look forward to expanding our cloud offerings to support the mission and purpose of U.S. government agencies.”

Expanded services for better efficiency, productivity, and cost-savings

The following cloud services are also now included in the list of services covered by the FedRAMP High JAB-ATO and the DISA IL5 accreditation: API Gateway; Oracle Cloud Functions; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Flow and Data Science Platform; Data Transfer Services; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Email Delivery; Secrets in Vault; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Shell and Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Other recently accredited features include File Storage Service; Oracle Resource Manager (Orchestration); Announcements; Terraform Provider; Oracle Kubernetes Engine; UX/YUM Repo; Notification Service; Events Service; Streaming Service; OCI Registry (OCIR); OCI Monitoring; Autoscaling; Compute Monitoring; Private Endpoints; and Metering and Usage Reports.

FedRAMP is the federal government program that sets the standard for assessing, authorizing, and monitoring cloud systems’ security. Similarly, DISA offers a variety of compliance and security assessments to accredit cloud systems for use by DoD and federal organizations. By attaining accreditations from both FedRAMP and DISA, Oracle’s government customers can be assured that Oracle’s cloud offerings have been thoroughly reviewed and approved by leading technology officials.

To attain these accreditations, Oracle utilized an accredited Third-Party Assessment Organization to complete a readiness assessment of the cloud service offerings for the authorization process. The service offerings were then reviewed by technical representatives from DISA for Impact Level 5 accreditation; and by the FedRAMP’s Joint Advisory Board – comprised of technical reviewers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Defense (DoD), and General Services Administration (GSA) – for FedRAMP High authorization.

Oracle www.oracle.com

AMP unveils Ultra-Low Latency H.264 Video Streamer to industrial and defense industries

Advanced Micro Peripherals has announced the release of the XStream-SD4, a stand-alone, ultra-low latency H.264 video streamer with four NTSC/PAL/RS-170 composite sources.

“This is a highly ruggedized SWaP optimized solution that is tailor-made for rapid deployment for even the harshest military and industrial applications,” wrote company founder and CEO Lee Foss. “We are delighted to add the XStream-SD4 to our catalog of proven technology solutions that have helped so many of our OEM partners.”

The XStream-SD4 features a dedicated hardware compression engine capable of encoding all four video channels at full size and full frame-rate with under 40ms latency. It also supports four channels of audio that can be captured and streamed with the video data.

Advanced Micro Peripherals Ltd. www.ampltd.com

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Cigistor® Introduces the First Fully Intergrated, Commercially Priced SSDs to Bring Military-Grade Protection to Classified Data at Rest

DIGISTOR Citadel™ SSDs set a new standard for simplicity of implementation for a full NSA Data at Rest security layer that protects up to the US Government’s Secret classification level.

DIGISTOR introduced its innovative line of DIGISTOR Citadel™ secure self-encrypting SSDs. The new SSDs, powered by CipherDrive™, is the first to deliver a complete security layer to encrypt and protect Data at Rest (DAR) in a low-cost, easily deployed form factor.

The proliferation of sensor and IoT data, cross-domain computing, and information aggregation in the DoD, intelligence, and critical infrastructure communities, are driving a rapid increase in cyberattacks. Until now, DAR endpoint security solutions have been either too complex or expensive for widescale deployment.

“With President Biden’s executive order to improve the country’s cybersecurity and protect government networks, Federal agencies are racing to create and deploy reliable DAR security solutions,” CDSG President and CEO Randal Barber said. “Our easily-integrated DIGISTOR Citadel SSDs deliver hardware-speed encryption and security technology needed to achieve one of the highest security classifications at COTS prices, ensuring that government agencies can meet the mandate quickly, effectively, and more affordably than legacy solutions.”

“We see a critical need to elevate and maintain the highest levels of security for data at rest among government and many corporate users,” said Jeff Janukowicz, Research Vice President, Solid State Drives and Enabling Technologies, IDC. “Meeting this need requires a seamless, affordable solution that works with virtually any system to deliver some of the highest levels of protection available.”

Citadel SSDs, based on SSDs certified to FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and Common Criteria (certification pending), lower the barrier to adopting DAR security solutions for those who have been stymied by expensive, specialized systems. Citadel SSDs are available in standard M.2 and 2.5-inch form factors, as well as SATA and NVMe interfaces, for commonly used laptops, desktops, and tactical servers. In addition to helping meet cost targets, Citadel self-encrypting SSDs contain an important security layer: pre-boot authentication, which requires that an authorized user unlock the SSD with a password or smart card before the computer can see the drive or boot up. Citadel’s authorization acquisition (AA) and encryption engine (EE) capabilities make Citadel SSDs ideal for a CSfC solution to secure information up to the US Government’s Secret classification level.

“We are very excited that CDSG chose the NSA-listed CipherDrive pre-boot authentication technology to incorporate into its DIGISTOR Citadel secure SSD solution,” said Kurt Lennartsson, Managing Partner of KLC Group. “CipherDrive is FIPS and Common Criteria certified and its combination with the DIGISTOR FIPS-certified SSDs creates a seamless layer of hardware-speed encryption paired with advanced multi-factor authentication and key management.”

Concurrently, CDSG announced that Trenton Systems will offer Citadel SSDs in its next and future generations of rugged servers, workstations, embedded systems, storage systems, and other products for the government market.

“Our military and government customers are clamoring for cost-effective DAR security solutions,” said Michael Bowling, CEO of Trenton Systems. “The new Citadel SSDs will be an essential addition to our forward-deployed servers and systems for aerospace and defense programs and applications operating in harsh environments globally.”

Citadel SSDs expand the DIGISTOR secure SSD product family, which includes FIPS-certified SSDs and TCG Opal-compliant SSDs. These TAA-compliant SSDs provide a range of options to meet the requirements of agencies that may not need the rigorous DAR security of Citadel.

DIGISTOR https://digistor.com

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