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	June 17, 2005 NetApp To Acquire Decru: Storage Encryption Goes Mainstream by Galen Schreck with Laura Koetzle, Thomas Powell

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Executive Summary

Network Appliance (NetApp) announced yesterday that it plans to acquire storage encryption specialist Decru in a cash and stock deal worth $272 million. Storage encryption appliances have been around for years, but customers were often limited to the most paranoid of organizations — in fact, Decru was partly funded by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm. Thanks to recent events like Citigroup's missing box of backup tapes full of customers' private information, firms have begun to re-examine their data security. Forrester expects the combined NetApp-Decru product set to result in useful products for data security and regulatory compliance.

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