NetApp Goes to Washington
I recently spoke with David Hitz, founder of storage maker Network Appliance, who spent much of last week in Washington, D.C. Chances are, more federal regulation around data protections will result in greater sales of NetApp's software, services and gear.
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I recently spoke with David Hitz, founder of storage maker Network Appliance, who spent much of last week in Washington, D.C. As Congress is wrestling with data protection legislation, NetApp has been one of the companies lobbying Washington to release federal guidelines relating to whether its customer-companies have to notify their customers if their users' data had been compromised. "Our customers are going to go crazy if they have to deal with regulations from 50 states," says Hitz.
Hitz also hopes that the federal legislation will make NetApp's June acquisition of storage security maker Decru pay off. NetApp is lobbying for use of encryption, which would make inaccessible/destroy any data that's been stolen.