Paul Shread

The company responsible for creating most of the world’s data has deepened its ties with the company most responsible for storing it. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and EMC (NYSE: EMC) agreed to extend their decade-old strategic alliance through 2011 and said they are committed to “broader and deeper product interoperability and service delivery” in areas like […]

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) is experiencing strong growth from its open storage efforts, but the company isn’t forgetting the Fibre Channel SAN market. Sun this week unveiled two new modular arrays, the Sun Storage 6580 and 6780, based on the company’s OEM relationship with LSI (NYSE: LSI). The 6580 replaces the 6540 unveiled 2 1/2 […]

This week’s LegalTech conference in New York is witnessing a host of e-discovery product offerings, and why not? In a down economy, lawsuits are one of the very few growth markets. As Gartner put it in a research report last month, “Litigation is counter-cyclical, and with more trouble in the economy, there will be more […]

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) took their data center network rivalry to a new level this week, with Brocade moving down market and Cisco moving up (see Cisco, Brocade See One Big Happy Fabric). Cisco unveiled its latest Nexus data center switches, while Brocade took the wraps off the DCX-4S Backbone, which offers […]

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) fared better than expected in the sharp fourth-quarter economic slowdown, cutting its cash burn by more than half as its open storage efforts continued to gain traction (see Sun May Surprise Its Critics and Can Sun Rise on Open Source Storage?). The results were good news for the company, which faced […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) today issued a downbeat outlook for IT spending, saying global IT spending could fall 10 percent in the first half of the year before rebounding, with the data storage market faring only slightly better. “We’re all witnessing a severe economic crisis being played out across the globe,” CEO Joe Tucci said on […]

When Bill Yu, an engineer for Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) development and test lab in Boulder, Colo., was looking for a new a backup solution, he stumbled upon R1Soft at last year’s Red Hat Summit (NYSE: RHT) in Boston. The lab had been using an Amanda server to do tapeless backups for four years, but ran […]

Dot Hill Systems (NASDAQ: HILL) believes that 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDD) will be the future of high-performance data storage, and the company is rolling out new storage systems to prove it. Dot Hill, which boasts Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW), NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and HP (NYSE: HPQ) as OEM partners, has unveiled what it claims […]

Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT) has acquired the technology assets of SRM startup MonoSphere (see MonoSphere Makes Storage Work Harder). Quest will take over Redwood City, Calif.-based MonoSphere’s Storage Horizon storage capacity management software and has also hired a “substantial number” of MonoSphere employees. “The high quality of MonoSphere’s team and technology, as well as the […]

As if the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) hadn’t given companies enough to worry about, now a judge’s ruling means that companies need to be ready to produce metadata in legal cases too. Guidance Software (NASDAQ: GUID) issued an alert today saying that in a recent court case (Aguilar v. Immigration & Customs Enforcement […]

On the same day that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced that its fourth-quarter revenues would come in $500 million shy of expectations, perhaps the biggest surprise was that EMC (NYSE: EMC) said its quarterly results will meet Wall Street estimates despite the toughest economy in three decades. It’s one more sign that the storage market continues […]

This week’s Macworld show hasn’t been all about iPhones, Macs and iTunes. Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) growing popularity among enterprise users has made the show a destination for storage vendors too. EMC (NYSE: EMC), HP (NYSE: HPQ), Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), Promise Technology and ATTO are just some of the companies out with storage offerings aimed […]