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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Oracle-Sun Merger Creates New Data Storage Player

Today's surprising news that Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) will acquire Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) means that the data storage industry...

Broadcom Makes Hostile Bid for Emulex

Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) today made an unsolicited bid to acquire Emulex (NYSE: ELX) in a play for the emerging...

EMC Unveils Virtual I/O Tool for VMware

EMC (NYSE: EMC) today unveiled a new offering that the company claims can solve I/O bottlenecks in virtual server...

HP Combines Storage, Virtual Servers

HP (NYSE: HPQ) is rolling out new data storage offerings for virtual server environments today.The new storage products include...

Sun Gives Open Storage a High-Performance Twist

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) yesterday rolled out a new data storage system for high-performance computing, the latest offering in...

EMC Ties Symmetrix to VMware

EMC (NYSE: EMC) is overhauling its high-end data storage systems for a new era of Virtualizationand converged data center...

Startup Claims Solid State Storage Breakthrough

SandForce came out of stealth mode today with new solid state drive (SSD) technology that the company claims bests...

Could NetApp Be a Takeover Target?

The collapse of merger talksbetween Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have some wondering if NetApp (NASDAQ:...

Is EMC Set to Unleash ‘Tigon’?

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has been taking out ads and sending e-mails to promote an April 14 online event cryptically...