Unify Your Backup and Recovery Strategy with LiteSpeed® for SQL ...

Unify Your Backup and Recovery Strategy with LiteSpeed®
for SQL Server and LiteSpeed® Engine for Oracle
LiteSpeed Advantages
LiteSpeed provides consistent compression and encryption for SQL Server and
Oracle, along with efficiency:
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• Compression. LiteSpeed uses the same compression engine on both the
Oracle and SQL Server platform, so the compression ratio for like data is
reliably similar on both databases.
• Encryption. LiteSpeed provides encryption for both SQL Server and
Oracle. No matter what standard you adopt in your shop, encryption can
be consistently applied across both database platforms.
• Efficiency. LiteSpeed performs backup compression on the database
server, in memory, before the backup is written to disk or shipped across
the network to a tape system. All other methods require more storage
and/or greater network utilization because the compression occurs after
the backup is created.
Encryption Levels
LiteSpeed offers the following encryption levels:
• AES128 (Advanced Encryption Standard, 128-bit)
The most commonly used encryption cipher for software implementations.
The ‘128’ indicates that a 128-bit key is used. This is strong enough for the
US government to use for information classified as SECRET.
• AES192 (Advanced Encryption Standard, 192-bit)
• AES256 (Advanced Encryption Standard, 256-bit)
The same ciphers but with longer keys. Certified by the US government for
use with information classified as TOP SECRET.
• 3DES (Triple Data Encryption Standard)
Seems to be falling out of use in favor of AES. Widely thought to be less
secure than AES.
• LiteSpeed for SQL Server supports some additional proprietary encryption
levels (RC2 and RC4).