D-Cubed Media Conversions (D3MC) is a consulting firm with over 120 years of IT experience providing data and document conversion services to a global customer base in various industries including: government, banking, insurance, financial services, healthcare, utilities, oil & gas, retail, and telecommunications. D3MC is a specialist in consolidating systems as a result of corporate acquisitions or purchase of new technologies.

D3MC also offers conversion and migration services for tape and optical media as well as data and documents. D3MC performs all of their conversion services at the customer site or at their own facilities in a complete off-line process, utilizing their own hardware and proprietary software resulting in no impact to their customer’s production environment.

During D3MC’s research process, they investigated both PGP® and WinZip® as potential solutions, but SecureZIP included more beneficial features and was more cost-effective. D3MC also needed a solution that would be configurable within their organization and be implemented quickly to begin handling large amounts of data. In addition, D3MC writes a lot of conversion software that is database driven - SecureZIP allowed them to update their database about the success or failure of the encryption process for each file.

All 150 TB of data was sent to D3MC on tape and moved from tape to disk for conversion. The data was then run through D3MC’s proprietary conversion process utilizing 25 of D3MC’s servers where it was transformed into a proprietary file format. All conversion work was done at D3MC’s secure facility in Houston, Texas and was performed only using D3MC’s hardware, proprietary software, and personnel. Neither the customer’s source nor target archive applications were required and the entire conversion process was performed using D3MC’s off-line process saving the customer money and time.

SecureZIP Enterprise Edition easily and efficiently met all of D3MC’s needs. D3MC was able to create a fully audited encryption solution utilizing SQL Server’s Integration Services. This allowed D3MC to have a completely audited conversion process. This solution queries the database, finds the files to be encrypted on disk and then encrypts them using SecureZIP. Encryption is performed on a file by file basis with each file about a half Gigabyte in size. In all, SecureZIP encrypted over 50 TB of information.

While SecureZIP encrypts massive amounts of information for D3MC, it also allows a database driven process to handle the encryption in order to monitor the encryption success and throughput rate. Using just 2 single Quad-Core servers to perform the file encryption using SecureZIP, D3MC was able to encrypt over 50 TB of data in just 2 weeks. D3MC is looking to expand their use of SecureZIP with additional clients and projects in the future.