Paul Shread

EMC (NYSE: EMC) is rolling out the final piece of its IT compliance and configuration management software lineup, Storage Configuration Advisor (SCA). The data storage giant says the automated management software helps prevent SAN configuration errors, “the most frequent cause of service-affecting events.” Along with EMC’s IT Compliance Analyzer — Application Edition, VoyenceControl for network […]

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) will report its quarterly results next week, and one Wall Street firm is already saying it expects the data storage company to disappoint. Stifel Nicolaus analysts Aaron Rakers and Matthew Nahorski wrote in a research note this morning that channel checks and the performance of other storage vendors suggest that “NetApp will […]

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison has no plans to sell off Sun Microsystems’ (NASDAQ: JAVA) data storage business — or any of the company’s other hardware product lines. “We are definitely not going to exit the hardware business,” Ellison told Reuters in an e-mail interview published late today. “If a company designs both hardware […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has rolled out what could be its final standalone version of Windows Storage Server (see Microsoft Set to Unveil Windows Storage Server 2008). Stephen Foskett, a Microsoft File System Storage MVP and director of consulting at Nirvanix, said future versions of Windows Storage Server, including the iSCSI software target and the single-instance […]

It’s just a tiny part of a $13 billion company, but Sun Microsystems’ (NASDAQ: JAVA) Open Storage program exemplifies everything the company had hoped to achieve in its turnaround efforts. Built on intelligent storage controllers, industry standard hardware and open source software, the program achieved 63 percent year-over-year growth in billings in one of the […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has won the first round in its battle to keep its top data storage executive from defecting to HP (NYSE: HPQ). A Massachusetts court yesterday temporarily barred David Donatelli, a 22-year EMC veteran, from assuming his new role as HP’s executive vice president for Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking until the two […]

Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) is taking its case straight to Emulex (NYSE: ELX) shareholders. A day after its takeover offer was rejected by Emulex, Broadcom launched a tender offer for Emulex shares at the same $9.25 a share price as the rejected merger proposal. Unless extended, the tender offer is scheduled to expire on June 3. […]

Emulex (NYSE: ELX) once again rejected Broadcom’s (NASDAQ: BRCM) advances today, saying the company’s hostile takeover bid “significantly undervalues Emulex’s long-term prospects and is not in the best interest of our stockholders.” Broadcom’s offer two weeks ago to acquire Emulex for $9.25 a share apparently followed merger talks in December and January. In a letter […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is set to unveil the long-awaited storage version of Windows Server 2008 next week. The software giant has scheduled a Web event for May 7 titled “Introducing Windows Storage Server 2008.” A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the “impending release” of Storage Server 2008, but had no other details. The event description states, “It […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) has lured away EMC’s (NYSE: EMC) top data storage executive, but EMC is suing to stop the move. David Donatelli, a 22-year EMC veteran and president of the EMC Storage Division, will become HP’s executive vice president for Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, effective May 5. He will report to Ann Livermore, […]

Sun Microsystem’s (NASDAQ: JAVA) Open Storage efforts shone in the company’s March quarter — just in time for Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) to figure out what to do with the program. Sun’s overall sales declined by 20 percent in the quarter to $2.61 billion, about $240 million below analysts’ estimates. The company reported a net loss […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) will resell Ethernet switches and routers from Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD), but Big Blue says retaliation against Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) isn’t the motive for the deal. Rumors of an IBM-Brocade deal have abounded since Cisco entered the server market more than a month ago, in the process taking on long-time partners IBM […]