Paul Shread

Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) has unveiled new services that let users know when changes to their data center environment could put them at risk for unwanted downtime. The new Veritas Operations Services are aimed at helping organizations identify hidden risks in their data centers. Veritas Installation Assessment and Veritas Storage Foundation Health Check, the first services […]

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has refreshed its Fibre Channel switches to make storage area networks (SANs) more responsive to virtual server environments. The joint solution with VMware (NYSE: VMW) creates the first “virtualized end-to-end SAN,” said Rajeev Bhardwaj, director of product management for Cisco’s Data Center Business Unit. “As virtual machines become more pervasive in the […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) today took the wraps off its long-awaited cloud storage infrastructure solution, moving the vendor long known for proprietary hardware offerings into the market for commodity hardware. EMC Atmos, previously known by the codenames “Maui” on the software side and “Hulk” on the hardware side, is aimed at massive global storage infrastructures, such […]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) announced its plans for data de-duplicationtoday — and EMC (NYSE: EMC) plays a big role in those plans. Dell’s aggressive move into storage, with the acquisition of EqualLogic at its center, has cost EMC sales and raised questions about the future of the companies’ longstanding partnership, even as officials of both companies […]

In response to turmoil in the credit markets, Foundry Networks (NASDAQ: FDRY) has agreed to a lower takeover price in its merger agreement with Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) (see Foundry-Brocade Merger Hits a Roadblock). Foundry agreed to lower its price from more than $19 a share in cash and stock to $16.50 a share in cash, […]

The planned merger between Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) and Foundry Networks (NASDAQ: FDRY) appears to be up in the air after Foundry abruptly postponed a shareholder vote on the deal on Friday. Foundry gave no reason for the postponement, citing only “recent developments related to the transaction,” and neither Foundry nor Brocade officials are commenting. The […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) will soon join the list of companies offering flash-based solid state storage technology, joining the likes of EMC (NYSE: EMC), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA). Jieming Zhu, distinguished technologist at HP StorageWorks, said HP will announce plans for SSDs in its storage arrays “soon,” but he offered no timetable for […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has held up remarkably well in the face of a global economic slowdown, but even the data storage giant admitted to seeing some weakness on its quarterly earnings call this morning. CEO Joe Tucci told analysts that the company saw a slowdown in the last three weeks of September, as customers turned […]

First there was information lifecycle management (ILM). Then along came intelligent information management (IIM) and information infrastructures. Now the latest storage industry rallying cry is information governance. The data storage industry has come a long way from storing data and managing storage infrastructures, and at the forefront of the movement to manage information wherever it […]

You’d never know from the broad range of products debuting at this week’s Storage Networking World show in Dallas that the global economy is teetering on the edge. But judging from all the products debuting at SNW, storage continues to benefit from its position as one of the hardest to delay IT expenses — and […]

AutoVirt hopes to make a splash in the file virtualization market by focusing on data migration. The company, which will come out of stealth mode this week as the storage industry gathers for the Storage Networking World (SNW) show in Dallas, hopes to win over users with its simplified approach and lower cost. “Some of […]

Storage vendors haven’t been able to completely escape the perfect financial storm threatening the global economy, according to a pair of surveys by financial analysts. Kaushik Roy of Pacific Growth Equities and Jayson Noland and Joel Inman of R.W. Baird have released their quarterly IT industry overviews, and both surveys found signs of slowing in […]