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SwapDrive, Decru Join Forces On Secure Data Storage Services

SwapDrive Inc, the first Application Service Provider (ASP) to provide a Web-based system for online data backup and storage, and Decru Inc, a leader in networked data storage security, announced recently that SwapDrive customers can now use Decru's security appliance, DataFort E440, in the SwapDrive server environment to secure data. SwapDrive is the first ASP to offer this security service to its worldwide customers.

With DataFort, SwapDrive offers customers layered security, combining hardware based encryption, authentication and intelligent key management to create a powerful security solution that is easy to use and manage. SwapDrive customers will continue to remotely backup, store, and access critical information as they always have, but now will have the option of storing that data fully encrypted, with strict authentication. DataFort installation is fully transparent -- neither users nor SwapDrive internal support personnel must change the way they manage the data.

"Storing confidential data offsite can be a concern for many customers," said SwapDrive CEO, David Steinberg. "With Decru DataFort living in our production environment, we have enhanced safeguards to ensure that all data, while in transit or at rest is fully protected."

SwapDrive has deployed the DataFort between its application servers and its storage devices. Data is encrypted at wire-speed, so customers experience no performance impact. Decru's robust AES encryption ensures data is fully protected from unauthorized access when it lands on the storage device. Additionally, data remains encrypted when transferred to SwapDrive's mirrored sites, and onto backup media.

One SwapDrive customer is aviation consulting firm, ECLAT. "ECLAT consulting works with and for the aviation industry. Information is our business. And naturally, our information is often proprietary, and always confidential," said Randy Babbitt, president and CEO of ECLAT Consulting. "SwapDrive's addition of AES encryption to its data backup service makes us feel comfortable that our information is protected to the same high standards as the government's most sensitive agencies. No one else offers the kind of service SwapDrive does, with such high security."

"DataFort separates the ability to manage stored data from the ability to read it," said Dan Avida, president and CEO of Decru. "Data that is unencrypted on the storage device is open to both internal and external attacks. SwapDrive's layered approach to data security is a clear example of best practices."

About SwapDrive

Located just blocks from the White House, SwapDrive's services are in use by 150,000 customers and distributed by over 50 ISPs, MSPs and computer companies.

SwapDrive provides and develops software products and services for backup, access, collaboration and delivery of information distributed via the Internet. The company's flagship service, SwapDrive Backup, is an online data backup service that provides companies with a tool to safeguard critical business information, featuring a Wizard-based installation, secure automatic backups, fast data recovery and ubiquitous service access via the Internet. SwapDrive Backup's best-of-breed technology provides affordable and extremely secure backup featuring strong factor authentication, SSL or Triple-DES VPN encryption options and redundant data storage.

SwapDrive's family of data storage software services enable users to store, share and send information using any connected device, anytime. SwapDrive has partnered with industry leaders including Cisco, Microsoft, Veritas, and ScaleEight. Founded in 1999, SwapDrive is a privately held company headquartered in Washington, D.C. To learn more about SwapDrive, please call 202-393-9900x451 or visit www.swapdrive.com.

About Decru

Founded in 2001, Decru is building storage security appliances to secure enterprise data. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Decru was founded and is managed by a proven and experienced team: Dan Avida, president and CEO, formerly CEO of Electronics for Imaging, and VP Engineering and CTO, Serge Plotkin, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Decru has raised more than $43 million in venture financing from Benchmark Capital, Greylock, New Enterprise Associates, In-Q-Tel and others.

The company is currently shipping the DataFort E440 for protecting Windows, UNIX and NAS appliances as the DataFort FC440 for transparent encryption of data stored on SANs. For more information, please visit www.decru.com.

Contact: Michele Borovac of Decru Inc, 650-413-6757, michele@decru.com.