Dell EMC CloudLink
Encryption and Key Management for the Agile Enterprise

Overview:

CloudLink Encryption and Key Management

CloudLink provides seamless security - from edge to core to cloud - with unmatched flexibility, superior reliability, and highly efficient operations. Using powerful policy-based key management, CloudLink provides multiple data encryption options across a broad spectrum of operating platforms including bare-metal, virtualized, and containerized workloads across public and private clouds.

CloudLink is the essential tool for securing your critical data – wherever it lives – simply, flexibly, and reliably.

Secure your assets with data encryption

Using powerful policy-based key management, CloudLink provides multiple data encryption options across a broad spectrum of operating platforms including bare-metal, virtualized, and containerized workloads across public and private clouds, simplifying and streamlining security workflows.

Dell EMC CloudLink helps you protect your data by providing:

• Comprehensive encryption and key management
• Support for VMware, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services environments
• Support for Containerized applications 
• Ease of use with a single management interface and REST APIs

A flexible approach to secure data for a broad range of modern workload deployments

Using powerful policy-based key management, CloudLink supports multiple data encryption options across a broad spectrum of operating platforms. Comprehensive environment support that includes bare-metal, virtualized, and containerized workloads across public and private clouds simplifies and streamlines security workflows.

CloudLink ensures superior reliability with highly available key management and backup capabilities. CloudLink is the essential tool for securing your critical data – wherever it lives – simply, flexibly, and reliably.

Variety of options and flexibility
CloudLink supports multiple data encryption options and provides policy-based key management to protect sensitive data throughout enterprise cloud environments.

Multi-level data encryption
Encryption options allowing you to secure, control, and monitor your:

• Windows and Linux Virtual Machines
• Kubernetes containerized applications
• PowerFlex OS stored data

Easily adaptable
Secure new or existing environments without re-architecting.

VMware-certified key management
CloudLink is a certified VMware Ready Key Management Server (KMS), giving customers granular control of VMs and data.

Easily secure your data and meet compliance needs

Now you can leverage a single offering to secure and manage sensitive data in the cloud and on premises. CloudLink utilizes FIPS 140-2 certified data encryption and key management libraries for modern IT infrastructure requirements.

Features:

Security

Ultimately, CloudLink’s mission is to secure your critical data, anywhere it resides. At every level, CloudLink has security measures built into its DNA. CloudLink Center, a locked-down virtual appliance, manages secure communications using FIPS 140 encryption libraries and algorithms. By protecting data at rest and in flight, we can ensure that your data is safe with CloudLink.

Unmatched flexibility

CloudLink offers unmatched flexibility in data center security, providing a one-stop shop for both agent encryption and external key management. By providing infrastructure-agnostic deployment options, CloudLink can protect widely heterogeneous environments encompassing physical storage, SAN and storage controllers, software-defined storage, virtual machines, and now containerized applications. Integrated into Active Directory, 3rd party key protectors, and storage, CloudLink ensures seamless connections throughout the enterprise.

Superior Reliability

CloudLink’s always-on key management is made possible through high availability and enhanced by our native backup feature. The CloudLink Center virtual appliance can be deployed in a cluster of up to 4 nodes, which ensures high availability if a CloudLink Center server in the cluster becomes unavailable. CloudLink Center automatically backs up its own critical information, including keys and the virtual appliance configuration – including user accounts, machine registrations, policies, and events. CloudLink provides an incredibly reliable, stable solution for your enterprise data.

Simple and efficient operations

CloudLink’s powerful security features are made simple with our GUI, automation and REST-based APIs. Wizard-driven installation allows you to be up and encrypting in an hour. From there, our automation makes it easy to forget your data is being encrypted. When you do need to manage CloudLink, RBAC (role-based access control) makes it easy to control access to key features like monitoring, logging, and live version upgrades.

Benefits:

Documentation:

Download the Dell EMC CloudLink Datasheet (PDF).