Paul Shread

Three-dimensional data storage has been a dream since the early 1960s, but GE (NYSE: GE) thinks it’s the company to finally make the technology realize its promise. GE Global Research, GE’s technology development arm, announced yesterday that it has developed a holographic storage material that can support 500 gigabytes of data storage capacity in a […]

CA (NASDAQ: CA) hopes to shake up the data backup and recovery market by giving ARCserve Backup users free deduplication and backup reporting. “The inclusion of key features at no additional cost is a bold move,” said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Lauren Whitehouse. “It definitely helps CA stand out in a crowded market.” Dedupe is […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) reported a bigger than expected decline in first-quarter sales today, but the data storage giant says it sees better times ahead. EMC’s sales slumped 9.2 percent from the year-ago quarter to $3.15 billion, $100 million below the Thomson Reuters consensus forecast, led by a 25 percent decline in high-end Symmetrix SAN sales […]

Today’s surprising news that Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) will acquire Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) means that the data storage industry suddenly has a new — and formidable — player. “Our customers have been asking us to step up to a broader role to reduce complexity, risk and cost by delivering a highly-optimized standards-based product stack,” Oracle […]

Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) today made an unsolicited bid to acquire Emulex (NYSE: ELX) in a play for the emerging Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) market. Just a day after Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) agreed on merger terms, Broadcom again shook up the data storage market with its hostile takeover bid for […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) today unveiled a new offering that the company claims can solve I/O bottlenecks in virtual server environments. EMC’s PowerPath/VE software offers automated path management, load balancing and fail-over capabilities for VMware’s (NYSE: VMW) new vSphere 4 and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Hyper-V environments. EMC senior product marketing manager Bob Wambach said the offering […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) is rolling out new data storage offerings for virtual server environments today. The new storage products include iSCSI SAN arrays from the company’s November acquisition of LeftHand Networks and a new direct-attached storage (DAS) offering. HP’s return on its $360 million acquisition of LeftHand could be a quick one, as the company […]

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) yesterday rolled out a new data storage system for high-performance computing, the latest offering in its Open Storage efforts. Just a week after merger talks with IBM (NYSE: IBM) reportedly fell apart, Sun showed it remains focused on business with a host of new server, storage and network offerings. The new […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) is overhauling its high-end data storage systems for a new era of Virtualizationand converged data center networks (see Is EMC Set to Unleash Tigon?). The new Symmetrix V-Max, which EMC will unveil today at a series of Web events, includes a big boost in performance and scalability and tighter integration with EMC’s […]

SandForce came out of stealth mode today with new solid state drive (SSD) technology that the company claims bests competitors on both cost and performance. Sandforce says its controllers have solved a number of reliability and performance issues with lower-cost multi-level cell (MLC) technology that have boosted the endurance and performance of the technology by […]

The collapse of merger talksbetween Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have some wondering if NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) could turn out to be a beneficiary. NetApp shares jumped 11 percent earlier this week on no news, and the speculation among traders is that NetApp could now become an acquisition target, rumors that first […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has been taking out ads and sending e-mails to promote an April 14 online event cryptically titled, “Overtake the Future.” “Only one approach can take you to the virtual data center of the future,” say the ads, which take users to a Web site to register for the event. The site says […]