Data protection spend sees upswing

Around 80% of storage administrators will allocate 20% of their budgets on data protection this year, reports eWeek.

According to research by CommVault, typically, storage spending involving non-hardware items such as data protection, data monitoring and capacity management constitutes less than 10% of yearly budgets. Most storage spending goes into purchases involving hardware, networking, software and maintenance.

"Our customers have been telling us that the continuing data glut is creating undue cost as well as the risk of data loss and business disruption," says David West, CommVault's vice-president of marketing and business development.

NetApp made its second storage resource management acquisition in three years when it bought Akorri Networks, which specialises in performance analysis for virtualised infrastructures, states Search Storage.com.

Akorri technology and employees will become part of the NetApp SANscreen Business Unit.

Paul Turner, general manager of the SANscreen Business Unit, says: "Together, the solutions should address common IT activities related to performance management, availability management, capacity management, billing, configuration, and auditing.”

Cloud computing start-up, NephoScale has unveiled an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform, says Data Centre Knowledge.

The US company's IaaS offerings include cloud servers, on-demand dedicated servers and object-based cloud storage.

NephoScale co-founder and president Bruce Templeton has been an executive at networking equipment maker Foundry Networks and later bought Web hosting providers Silicon Valley Web Hosting, NectarTech Hosting and Simpli Hosting.