Paul Shread

With the battle for Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP) won, EMC (NYSE: EMC) has turned its attention to winning the hearts and minds of Data Domain employees (see What’s Next for EMC, NetApp and Quantum?). After a six-week battle in which it became clear that Data Domain favored EMC rival NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), EMC CEO Joe […]

Fusion-io says its has developed a new class of solid state drive technology that could lower the cost of SSDs for enterprise deployment. The company, which made a name for itself by signing on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist, says its has developed a new engineering technique for managing lower-cost […]

The takeover battle for Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP) may have been settled in favor of EMC (NYSE: EMC), but another high-profile data storage merger fight appears to be over. Emulex (NYSE: ELX) announced this morning that it has once again rejected a takeover offer from Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM), and Broadcom followed with a statement that […]

The six-week takeover battle for Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP) may have been settled in favor of EMC (NYSE: EMC), but for the companies involved, the hard part may just be getting started. EMC must begin the process of integrating deduplication pioneer Data Domain into an already full product portfolio that includes the company’s Avamar software, […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has bested rival NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) in the bidding war for Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP). NetApp announced late today that it “will not revise its proposal to acquire Data Domain in the wake of EMC’s higher unsolicited offer, and that NetApp and Data Domain have terminated their merger agreement.” Following NetApp’s announcement, […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) is tying together its IT automation and management software in what EMC senior product marketing director Bob Quillin calls “the culmination of a five-year strategy.” The new EMC Ionix line includes all the data center automation and management technology the company has acquired or developed over the last several years and brings […]

Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) today unveiled plans to offer data deduplication across its backup and archiving product line, but all the pieces won’t be in place until next year. NetBackup, Backup Exec and Enterprise Vault will all get the data reduction technology, and Symantec is offering central management and a single global viewpoint of both native […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) this morning raised its takeover bid for Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP) after the FTC cleared the way for the merger, leaving the next move up to rival NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP). EMC’s $2.1 billion all-cash bid for the data deduplication specialist is about seven times Data Domain’s sales in the last four reported […]

Opponents of the proposed merger between Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP) and NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) will get their day in court. A Delaware Court of Chancery judge ruled late last week that a lawsuit opposing the merger has enough merit to move ahead on an expedited basis, and he scheduled a hearing on a preliminary injunction […]

STEC (NASDAQ: STEC) may have a commanding lead in the enterprise solid state drive (SSD) market, but there are plenty of vendors trying to catch up. Analyst Matthew Bryson of Avian Securities attended last week’s MemCon conference in Santa Clara, Calif., and came back with a half-dozen names that could eventually challenge STEC in the […]

Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) is raising its hostile takeover offer for Emulex (NYSE: ELX) — but setting a deadline for a deal to occur. Broadcom upped its offer for the HBAsand CNA vendor from $9.25 a share to $11 — but said the offer will expire at midnight on July 14 “if the Emulex Board has […]

It’s been a tough year for the data storage industry, but several analysts have reported hopeful signs for the sector in recent weeks. “We are hearing from our North America sales contacts that enterprise spending in storage has finally started to thaw over the last few weeks, with deal closure rates improving,” Avian Securities storage […]