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    NetApp Buys Decru to Link Security, Storage

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    June 16, 2005
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      Placing its network-attached storage reputation into largely unfamiliar security waters, Network Appliance agreed to purchase privately held Decru on Thursday for about $272 million in cash and stock. The acquisition is expected to close in October.

      Decru Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of security functions tailored toward storage environments offering encryption, authentication, compliance and data-protection features, will operate as an independent business unit separate from NetApp once the purchase closes, said Dave Hitz, founder and executive vice president of NetApp (Network Appliance Inc.), based in Sunnyvale, Calif.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to read about IBMs plan to sell NetApp storage gear.

      Hitz said Decrus strong interoperability and partnership play with a number of key NetApp storage competitors—such as EMC Corp., IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co.—is far too valuable to jeopardize by assimilating Decrus storage portfolio within NetApps technology stack.

      “Decrus products currently interoperate with products from any storage vendor, and we are absolutely going to continue supporting those other vendors. We will have a Chinese wall to allow Decru salespeople to work with other storage vendors,” Hitz said.

      “This isnt to say we wouldnt do acquisitions where we integrate tightly; we did that with Spinnaker. But with Decru, we cant maintain that opportunity if we turn around and say [Decru technology] is part of a filer. In order to achieve that goal, we have to keep it independent.”

      Founded in 2001, Decru has received more than $45 million in venture financing from Benchmark Capital, Greylock, New Enterprise Associates, In-Q-Tel and others. Decru has already enjoyed a close technology partnership with NetApp. Most recently, the companies last week jointly announced an integrated turnkey platform to enable secure processing and storage of credit card data in accordance with Visa and Mastercard PCI (Payment Card Industry) security standards.

      According to Hitz, an accelerated blurring of the lines between storage and security functionality and concerns is simultaneously occurring as customers push for consolidation, bringing together their storage into a centralized storage pool to lower costs and streamline management—thereby creating a primary security target.

      “The more you replicate data to protect it for compliance the more copies there are for people to target. Decru allows us to simplify data management and at the same time have security as part of that,” Hitz said.

      Through its Decru DataFort family of appliances, Decru provides a single storage security architecture supporting NAS, SAN (storage area network), iSCSI, tape and DAS (direct attached storage) environments.

      Hitz said Decrus encryption and key management capabilities will mesh nicely with NetApps focus on improved data management and data protection.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest security news, reviews and analysis. And for insights on security coverage around the Web, take a look at eWEEK.com Security Center Editor Larry Seltzers Weblog.

      Brian Fonseca
      Brian Fonseca is a senior writer at eWEEK who covers database, data management and storage management software, as well as storage hardware. He works out of eWEEK's Woburn, Mass., office. Prior to joining eWEEK, Brian spent four years at InfoWorld as the publication's security reporter. He also covered services, and systems management. Before becoming an IT journalist, Brian worked as a beat reporter for The Herald News in Fall River, Mass., and cut his teeth in the news business as a sports and news producer for Channel 12-WPRI/Fox 64-WNAC in Providence, RI. Brian holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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