Decru
Securing data in flight and at rest in storage networks
Decru, headquartered in Redwood City, California, develops storage security solutions to address a range of business needs for government and enterprises, including secure storage consolidation, secure information sharing, insider threat mitigation, secure backup and disaster recovery, and protecting data in harm’s way. Decru DataFort™ appliances are the only storage security solution that can be deployed transparently in SAN, NAS, DAS, iSCSI, and tape backup environments, with no disruption to servers, desktops, applications, storage, or user workflow.
Decru has been shipping Decru DataFort™ storage security appliances for several years, and has secured customers in both commercial and federal markets. Federal customers include the Italian government, UK National Health Service, and the US government, including military, civilian and intelligence communities. Decru has established significant partnerships with all major vendors in storage networking, including Network Appliance, EMC, Sun, McDATA, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Brocade, ADIC, Cisco, Oracle, and Quantum.
Decru was founded in April 2001, and is led by CEO Dan Avida and an experienced management team with deep expertise in security, networking, high-performance appliances, and market creation. In 2004, Decru was named “Top 10” startup by Dow Jones, one of “12 Hot Startups” by Business 2.0 magazine, and named to Red Herring’s Top 100 Private Companies. Decru’s DataFort platform received one of the top ten scores from InfoWorld labs in 2003, and was nominated for “Best Enterprise Security Product.” In-Q-Tel initially invested in Decru in August, 2001. For more information about Decru, please visit www.decru.com.
Decru was acquired by Network Appliance in June, 2005. Network Appliance shares are traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol NTAP.
Technology Focus Areas
- Physical and Biological Technologies
- Security
- Software and Infrastructure
