IBM GSKit Supports SPARC M7 Hardware Encryption

Oracle and IBM have a very close working relationship running IBM software on Oracle hardware. One of the recent results of this collaboration is the announcement by IBM that its GSKit v8 now supports SPARC hardware encryption – M7, T7, T4 and T5 processors). This, in turn, means that several IBM software products can now make use of on-chip SPARC hardware encryption today, automatically, without significant performance impact.

What Is GSKit?

The IBM Global Security Kit (aka GSKit) is not a product offering in itself, but instead a security framework used by many IBM software products for its cryptographic and SSL/TLS capabilities. Example IBM products making use of GSKit today include DB2, Informix, IBM HTTP Server and WebSphere MQ.

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