Decru, a NetApp Company, and RSA, The Security Division of EMC, Team to Provide Enterprise Data Protection Solutions.

Industry Leaders Collaborate on Development of Common Standards

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Decru[R], a NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) company, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with RSA[R], The Security Division of EMC (NYSE:EMC), to offer joint customers enterprise data protection (EDP) solutions. In addition, the two organizations plan to collaborate on the development of common standards for enterprise-wide encryption and key management.

In recent years, enterprise and government customers have come under tremendous regulatory and business pressure to secure sensitive and confidential data. This task has been complicated by the nature of the enterprise infrastructure, which incorporates a wide variety of applications, operating systems, networks, and storage vendors. Despite the clear need for information-centric security, enterprises have been reluctant to create encryption deployments without a unified policy and key management infrastructure. Decru and RSA are teaming up to directly address this customer challenge, and RSA[R] Key Manager software will be an integral part of the EDP offering to joint customers. RSA Key Manager is a stand-alone key lifecycle management offering that is engineered to enable businesses to control encryption keys effectively by providing centralized, secure and simplified administration for all applications.

Decru DataFort[R] security appliances automate and simplify storage security for heterogeneous enterprise environments. The Decru platform combines encryption, authentication, access controls, auditing, and policy management to provide enterprise-wide security for data at rest. Decru has made a strong commitment to standards and interoperable solutions, notably with the launch of the Decru OpenKey[TM] program in June 2006.

"We're working to accelerate our customers' business objectives by reducing risk, helping to address federal and state statutory and regulatory initiatives on data protection, and protecting critical consumer, employee and partner information," said Rick Welch, vice president and general manager, Data Security Business Unit at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. "Enterprises will turn to RSA to leverage our expanded set of enterprise data protection solutions, and our commitment to bring Decru solutions to market will enable us deliver flexibility and choice to better meet their needs."

Suresh Vasudevan, senior vice president and general manager at Decru, added, "We are very pleased to team with RSA, one of the true pioneers in the information security industry. Working together, RSA and Decru can provide joint customers with best-in-class enterprise data protection solutions to solve their toughest data security challenges."

About Decru

Decru, a NetApp company, is the leader in storage security. Decru solutions enable enterprise-wide secure data management, and address critical business requirements including privacy, regulatory compliance, and intellectual property protection. Decru provides security solutions to many of the world's largest enterprise and government customers.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995" The statement regarding RSA and Decru offering joint enterprise data protection (EDP) solutions and RSA and Decru collaborating on standards are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include any statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of Decru or Network Appliance, Inc. that involves risks or uncertainties. In evaluating these statements readers should specifically consider various factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated, including, without limitation, ability of RSA and third parties to deliver products and components on a timely basis, customer demand for products and services, customer acceptance of product architectures, increased competition, and other important factors as described in Network Appliance, Inc. reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recently submitted 10-K and 10-Q.

NetApp and the Network Appliance logo are registered trademarks and Network Appliance is a trademark of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Decru and Decru DataFort are registered trademarks and Lifetime Key Management is a trademark of Decru, a NetApp company. RSA is a registered trademark of RSA Security Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.