Paul Shread

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) appears to be weathering the IT spending slump better than most data storage vendors, according to a couple of analyst reports this week. NetApp, which will report its quarterly results on Aug. 19, is expected to post a 5 percent sales decline for its July quarter — that’s less than half the […]

The most interesting detail to come out of STEC’s (NASDAQ: STEC) quarterly earnings report last night is just how much growth may still lie ahead for the enterprise solid state drive (SSD) maker. The company’s eye-popping growth rate is coming almost entirely from EMC (NYSE: EMC), which added the drives to its high-end storage arrays […]

Anyone putting off archiving their SharePoint files is running out of excuses. Metalogix Software this week unveiled a free SharePoint archiving tool, following a similar move by AvePoint. And Bamboo Solutions is another company giving away free SharePoint tools. So what’s behind the free archiving tools for Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) popular collaboration program? Taneja Group […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has said it plans to keep selling Quantum’s data deduplication solutions despite its acquisition of Data Domain, but Quantum (NYSE: QTM) isn’t taking any chances (see What’s Next for EMC, NetApp and Quantum?). On the company’s quarterly earnings call earlier this week, Quantum CEO Rick Belluzzo said the company is busy looking […]

LSI (NYSE: LSI) revealed more of its plans for the NAS market on its quarterly earnings call last night. LSI closed its acquisition of NAS specialist ONStor this week, a deal that has raised speculation that one outlet for its new NAS offerings could be OEM partners Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) and IBM (NYSE: IBM). IBM […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today became the latest company to add replication to data deduplication, a combination of technologies that promises to reduce bandwidth costs and improve disaster recovery times. IBM’s announcement follows similar moves by the likes of Data Domain — now part of EMC (NYSE: EMC) after a six-week bidding war with NetApp (NASDAQ: […]

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today rolled out enhancements to its MDS 9000 director products and NX-OS operating system that promise to improve performance for storage area networks (SANs), WANs and IBM mainframe environments. The upgrades include added FICON support, which Cisco sees as a growing market as IBM (NYSE: IBM) phases out ESCON, acceleration technologies for […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) this morning posted better than expected quarterly results — and said it expects to do even better with the acquisition of Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP), which is expected to close today. EMC’s second-quarter sales were down 11.3 percent to $3.26 billion, but that was $60 million better than analysts expected. The data […]

LSI (NYSE: LSI) has acquired NAS vendor ONStor, a move that could give NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) some competition with NAS partner IBM (NYSE: IBM). LSI announced late yesterday that it is acquiring ONStor for $25 million — an apparent loss of more than $100 million for the company’s VCs. The move gives LSI NAS and […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has deepened its commitment to the emerging Fibre Channel over Ethernet standard with FCoE switch deals with Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD). IBM will resell the Brocade 8000 FCoE switch as the IBM Converged Switch B32, and Big Blue will also resell Brocade’s converged network adapters (CNAs). The switch and […]

Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP) today rolled out a new high-end data deduplication system, just days before its merger with EMC (NYSE: EMC) is expected to close (see What’s Next for EMC, NetApp and Quantum?). The new Data Domain DD880 inline deduplication storage system boasts aggregate throughput of as much as 5.4 TB/hour, single-stream throughput up […]

You’d think after the takeover battle over Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP) that the next big data storage acquisition would involve deduplication, but HP (NYSE: HPQ) had other ideas (see What’s Next for EMC, NetApp and Quantum?). HP announced this morning that it will acquire clustered file storage specialist and long-time partner Ibrix in a move […]