Secure network storage appliance packs Altera FPGAs

Altera Corp. announced that network security pioneer Secturion Systems Inc., has chosen Arria 10 FPGAs for its DarkStor secure network storage appliance product lines. The DarkStor secure network storage appliance is capable of meeting the rigorous requirements for storing, retrieving and communicating secure data in high-bandwidth network and storage applications and is implemented using Altera's family of high-performance 20 nm Arria 10 FPGAs.

The appliance features storage network packet processors, key handling and XTS-AES-256 encryption rates of 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s "full duplex" using unique patent-pending, systolic matrix architectures suitable for big data storage and IP network applications. In addition, the appliance features multi-tenancy and multiple independent levels of security features that eliminate the need for separate storage areas for each customer or each data type, improving security and saving on infrastructure costs.

"With Altera's Arria 10 FPGA architecture, we have pushed big data network storage security to the next level of protection, performance and flexibility," said Richard Takahashi, Secturion Systems CEO and founder. "We will migrate these capabilities to Stratix 10 FPGAs to take advantage of high-performance HyperFlex architecture routing and the new innovative security architecture to enable even more secure encryption at 400Gb/s and higher."

"Secturion Systems is using Arria 10 FPGAs to achieve not only rapid prototypes, but also production-quality systems," said Ian Land, senior manager, military, aerospace and government business unit at Altera."