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.

IBM To Help Build Massive Data Grid To Recreate ‘Big Bang’

IBM is joining the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications to help create a massive data-management system built on Grid computing. IBM's storage virtualization and file management technology will...

First Wireless Storage Area Network Deployed

The world's first wireless Internet Protocol (IP) Storage Area Network was born of an enduring necessity: the need to save money. "Acquiring IP services to our local sites...

IBM Launches Commercial Grid Offerings

IBM launched a broad push into commercial Grid computing Monday with 10 initiatives targeting aerospace, automotive, financial markets, government and life sciences. Big Blue, which gave Grid computing a big...

Library Of Congress Goes Grid

Grid computing technology may soon be used to preserve such priceless artifacts of American history as films of the Spanish-American War and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the photographs...

Corporations Without IT Departments Could Be The Future: IBM

Taken to its logical extreme, IBM's view of the future of enterprise computing could mean a world where corporations no longer have IT departments. IBM Grid Computing General Manager Tom...

Google Experiments With Distributed Computing

Google is experimenting with distributed computing in a collaboration with Stanford University's Folding@home project. The company randomly selected 500 Google Toolbar users to try out a new version...

Internet Grid Computing Is Viable Now, Some Say

Security and attitudes aren't yet ready for commercial Grid computing over the Internet. At least that's the view of most Grid computing insiders. But those who offer the...

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