Paul Shread

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has acquired parts of an open source support company, but the storage giant isn’t saying much about its plans for the acquisition. EMC said in a statement that it has “acquired some of the assets of SourceLabs and has hired a number of the company’s employees.” SourceLabs will continue to operate as […]

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) finally closed its $2.6 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks late last week. Now the hard part begins. The deal was announced in July, but ran into trouble in October amid a growing credit market crisis. The two agreed on a lower price in late October to reduce the deal’s reliance on debt, […]

Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) has fashioned a marketing message for the times: use our products and you’ll save money. Whether it’s saving on management costs with automation or on storage capacity with its latest offering, the company seems to be returning to a familiar message in recent months. This week, the company announced enhancements to its […]

Hitachi Data Systems said today it will use solid state drives (SSDs) from the joint partnership between Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced two weeks ago (see Intel, Hitachi Make a Splash in Solid State Storage). The first drives from the Intel-HGST partnership won’t be available until early 2010, so Hitachi Data […]

Robobak hopes to make a splash in the storage market by doing one thing and doing it well: protecting data in remote and branch offices (ROBOs, hence the name Robobak). Rather than take on established data center names like Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) and EMC (NYSE: EMC), Robobak is content to toil on the edges of […]

Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) aggressive move into the storage market this year has had some industry observers wondering just how much its long-running partnership with EMC (NYSE: EMC) would suffer as a result. The two moved today to shore up those doubts by announcing an extension of their seven-year-old partnership through 2013 and expanding the agreement […]

Much has been made of the precarious position of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) of late, but the company has much more time than its critics would have you believe (see Should EMC Buy Sun? and Can Sun Microsystems Save Itself? ). Much of the coverage has focused on Sun’s $1.7 billion quarterly “loss” and plans […]

In a quarter in which the economic decline accelerated after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and a handful of other financial giants had to be propped up by the federal government, storage sales grew nearly 9 percent. “While the economic turmoil has already started impacting spending in various IT segments, including PCs and server systems, the […]

A new partnership between Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to develop enterprise-class solid state drives (SSDs) promises to push the technology further into enterprise storage systems. EMC (NYSE: EMC) got the ball rolling in January, when it added SSDsfrom STEC to its high-end Symmetrix systems. A host of other storage system vendors […]

An effort by storage vendors to eliminate data corruption unveiled more than 18 months ago will soon bear its first fruits (see Storage Vendors Pledge Data Integrity). Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today that it is contributing block I/O data integrity infrastructure code to Linux, which has been accepted into the 2.6.27 Linux kernel. The open […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has announced upgrades to its backup product line to better protect virtual server environments and to capitalize on the fast-growing market for data de-duplication. The products getting an overhaul include EMC’s tools for analysis and reporting, data de-duplication and replication. EMC NetWorker, the company’s flagship backup and recovery software, gets support for […]

Server Virtualizationis creating a new market for an old storage technology. HP (NYSE: HPQ) this week unveiled a direct-attached storage (DAS) product that works with its server BladeSystem to give smaller businesses a storage solution to match their virtual server environments. Long relegated to second-class status as storage networks gained in popularity, DAS is making […]