Paul Shread

eSecurity Editor Paul Shread has covered nearly every aspect of enterprise technology in his 20+ years in IT journalism, including an award-winning series on software-defined data centers. He wrote a column on small business technology for Time.com, and covered financial markets for 10 years, from the dot-com boom and bust to the 2007-2009 financial crisis. He holds a market analyst certification.
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Broadcom Plays Hardball with Emulex

Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) is taking its case straight to Emulex (NYSE: ELX) shareholders.A day after its takeover offer was...

Emulex Gives Broadcom the Cold Shoulder

Emulex (NYSE: ELX) once again rejected Broadcom's (NASDAQ: BRCM) advances today, saying the company's hostile takeover bid "significantly undervalues...

Microsoft Set to Unveil Windows Storage Server...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is set to unveil the long-awaited storage version of Windows Server 2008 next week.The software giant...

EMC Sues to Stop HP From Hiring...

HP (NYSE: HPQ) has lured away EMC's (NYSE: EMC) top data storage executive, but EMC is suing to stop...

Open Storage Shines as Sun Sets

Sun Microsystem's (NASDAQ: JAVA) Open Storage efforts shone in the company's March quarter — just in time for Oracle...

IBM Says Brocade Deal Not Aimed at...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) will resell Ethernet switches and routers from Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD), but Big Blue says retaliation against...

GE Brings Holographic Storage to Life

Three-dimensional data storage has been a dream since the early 1960s, but GE (NYSE: GE) thinks it's the company...

CA Gives Away Dedupe, Backup Reporting

CA (NASDAQ: CA) hopes to shake up the data backup and recovery market by giving ARCserve Backup users free...

EMC Sees a Bottom in IT Spending

EMC (NYSE: EMC) reported a bigger than expected decline in first-quarter sales today, but the data storage giant says...