Paul Shread

Paul Shread has covered nearly every aspect of enterprise technology in his 20+ years in IT journalism, including an award-winning series on software-defined data centers. He wrote a column on small business technology for Time.com, and covered financial markets for 10 years, from the dot-com boom and bust to the 2007-2009 financial crisis. He holds a market analyst certification.

Brocade Branches Out

Brocade capped a busy week late Thursday with a surprising announcement: the company will move into the market for host bus adapters (HBAs), traditionally a market belonging...

Cisco Plans Storage Security Push

Cisco Systems plans a fabric-based encryption offering for disk and tape later this year that the company says bests current approaches. The product will be delivered in the...

EMC Gives SRM a Virtual Twist

The latest release of EMC's flagship storage resource management (SRM) software includes support for VMware and better reporting capabilities. EMC ControlCenter 6.0, which the storage giant is billing...

Storage Vendors Pledge Data Integrity

Four IT vendors have banded together to demonstrate a new data integrity standard. Emulex, LSI, Oracle and Seagate on Wednesday unveiled the Data Integrity Initiative (DII), a technology...

Gresham Makes Tape Virtual

Gresham Enterprise Storage isn't a household name in data storage, but the UK firm hopes to change that. Gresham says it has sold 4,300 licenses of its...

Sun Shelves Midrange Storage Array

Sun Microsystems is shifting engineering support for its 6920 midrange storage virtualization array to HDS, deepening the storage ties between the two. As part of the agreement, HDS...

Holographic Storage Appears

An idea more than 40 years in development is beginning to work its way into the storage marketplace. InPhase Technologies will ramp up volume production of its...

Grid, Virtualization Get Closer

As grid technology gets absorbed into enterprise fabrics, it could become inseparable from technologies such as virtualization and service-oriented architectures (SOA) and the creation of enterprise utilities,...

High-End NAS Gets a New Player

Hitachi Data Systems made its long-awaited entry into the high-end NASmarket on Monday with a five-year OEM deal with BlueArc. The deal, which also includes a "minority position"...

Another Solid Quarter for Storage

Storage vendors had another strong showing in the third quarter, led by a resurgent EMC. According to IDC, worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenue in the third...

Symantec Looks Beyond Virtual Tape

Symantec on Tuesday announced plans to move disk-based backup away from legacy tape environments. A new application programming interface (API) called the Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage API, set for...

Gear6 Speeds Up Storage

Gear6 hopes to boost NASperformance with a first-of-its-kind centralized storage caching solution. The startup says it is the first to deploy high-capacity, high-performance cache as a scalable shared...

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