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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Dedupe, Solid State and 6Gb SAS Headline...

The theme of this week's Storage Networking World show seems to match the economic backdrop: doing more with less,...

Brocade Sees 16-Gig in Fibre Channel’s Future

Brocade Communications (NASDAQ: BRCD) sees 16 Gigabit per second Fibre Channel coming — even as some data storage industry...

Sun-IBM Merger Talks Collapse

The Wall Street Journal is reporting tonight that merger talks between Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and IBM (NYSE: IBM)...

Zetta Moves Primary Storage to the Cloud

Zetta hopes to change the data storage landscape with what it claims is the first cloud offering for primary...

IBM-Sun Merger Appears Near

IBM's (NYSE: IBM) acquisition of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) could be announced Monday, according to news reports — and...

EMC Combines E-Mail Archiving, E-Discovery

EMC (NYSE: EMC) today unveiled a new e-mail and instant messaging archiving platform that the company is positioning for...

Data Storage Sales Hit by Tough First...

The data storage market appears to be getting hit harder than expected by the sharp economic downturn, according to...

Sun Lays Off 1,500 as IBM Merger...

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) is moving ahead with plans to lay off as much as 18 percent of its...

QLogic Sees FCoE Coming Soon

QLogic (NASDAQ: QLGC) sees Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) products arriving on the data storage market in the next...