Paul Shread

Emulex (NYSE: ELX) is shipping its single-chip converged network adapters (CNAs), but Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) won’t be an option until later this year. QLogic (NASDAQ: QLGC) has had a multi-month head start over its CNA rival, including design wins with IBM (NYSE: IBM) x and p series and BladeCenter servers and endorsements from […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today began shipping a long-awaited upgrade to its high-end data storage product line, the new System Storage DS8700. Big Blue, which competes in the high-end storage market with EMC (NYSE: EMC) and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), claims a big performance improvement for the new storage system, along with new solid state drive […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) reported quarterly results this morning that topped Wall Street forecasts, and the data storage giant predicted a modest rebound in IT spending for 2010. EMC’s third-quarter revenues were down 5.3 percent from the year-ago quarter to $3.52 billion, $70 million more than the Thomson Reuters forecast, and the company’s non-GAAP earnings of […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) and Quantum (NYSE: QTM) this week unveiled new data deduplication appliances, as the one-time dedupe partners pursue different strategies in the wake of EMC’s acquisition of Data Domain. EMC, which continues to support its Quantum dedupe customers as it moves forward with the Data Domain product line, announced new midrange and small […]

Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) has developed new enterprise-class flash technology that will eventually work its way into solid state drives (SSD). The new offering is based on Micron’s 34nm NAND development partnership with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). Micron bills its Enterprise NAND technology as the “highest endurance, highest capacity multi-level cell (MLC) and single-level cell (SLC) […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said today it has recovered most of the data of T-Mobile Sidekick users lost in a service disruption last week, and the software giant said it’s improving its backup processes and the stability of its Danger service to avoid similar mishaps in the future (see T-Mobile Data Loss a Setback for Clouds?). […]

Cloud computing and solid state drives (SSDs) are dominating the product announcements at this week’s Storage Networking World conference, with IBM (NYSE: IBM), Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and 3PAR (NYSE: PAR) among the vendors making news. IBM announced today that it’s added SSD support to the IBM System Storage SAN Volume […]

After NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) raised its financial outlook last week, it’s hard to find an analyst who isn’t optimistic heading into EMC’s (NYSE: EMC) quarterly earnings report next week. “We believe NetApp’s guidance is an industry-driven dynamic, and therefore a positive for EMC,” Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers wrote after NetApp said it expects to […]

News of a massive data loss affecting T-Mobile Sidekick users could be a setback for the nascent cloud computing market (see Why Cloud Storage Use Could Be Limited in Enterprises). T-Mobile said data services for the smartphone provided by Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Danger subsidiary were disrupted as a result of a server failure at Microsoft, […]

Server virtualization has become a more cost-effective way for enterprises to implement disaster recovery plans, and VMware (NYSE: VMW) hopes to make it even easier (see Virtualization Makes Disaster Recovery Cheaper). The server Virtualizationleader this week unveiled VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4, which centralizes management of disaster recovery plans and automates testing and recovery […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) launched new offerings this week for enterprise cloud storage environments. IBM today unveiled new cloud storage and archiving solutions, while Symantec earlier this week took the wraps off a new clustered file system for cloud environments. The announcements follow other recent moves by the likes of HP (NYSE: […]

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) and NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) once again found themselves at the center of takeover speculation today. The Wall Street Journal reported that Brocade has “quietly put itself up for sale,” while Barron’s reported that NetApp — long the subject of takeover rumors — has softened on the idea of a merger. If either […]