Testing was conducted at the Brocade interoperability labs, which are state-of-the-art facilities supporting end-to-end interoperability and performance testing of SAN products in multi-vendor and large fabric SAN environments. The Brocade Fabric Aware Program has added more than fifty members since its launch in 2000. In addition, as part of its investment in SAN interoperability, Brocade actively supports its members' interoperability initiatives. "SANs have grown from small single-application systems into sprawling networks with thousands of ports. This rapid expansion, in conjunction with growing concerns around compliance and insider threats, have driven storage security to the top of the agenda," said Kevin Brown, vice president of marketing for Decru. "Together, Decru and Brocade offer a broad range of fully-tested security features that create end-to-end security for data in storage area networks." The Decru DataFort appliance combines host authentication, AES 256-bit encryption, and secure logging to provide unprecedented protection for sensitive stored data. By locking down stored data with strong encryption and routing all access through secure hardware, DataFort radically simplifies the security model for networked storage. Decru DataFort appliances can be deployed virtually anywhere within the SAN, and are fully interoperable with Brocade Fabric Operating System (Fabric OS.) Decru DataFort supports 2-gig SAN and Tape backup environments transparently, delivering wire-speed latency and throughput. Decru DataFort allows organizations to create and maintain privacy for data in shared storage, using Cryptainer(TM) vaults mapped to individual LUNs. Decru's integrated Lifetime Key Management(TM) System fully automates key archival and management across the enterprise, ensuring data will always be accessible. "We are pleased that Decru has successfully completed the Fabric Aware testing with Brocade fabric switches in multi-vendor SAN environments," said Jay Kidd, Brocade CTO, Infrastructure Systems Group. "Storage area networks are being deployed worldwide at a rapid rate as a scalable, high performance networking foundation for storage environments. The Fabric Aware program is an example of our continued commitment to delivering end-to-end interoperability to SAN customers."