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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Sun Turns Object Storage Over to OpenSolaris

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) is turning over object-based storage (OSD) development for its SAM-QFS file system to the OpenSolaris...

EMC Adds Primary Dedupe to Unified Storage

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has added primary data de-duplicationto its best-selling Celerra unified storage arrays, turning its rivalry with NetApp...

Zmanda Brings Open Source Backup to the...

Let's face it, in these tough economic times, what could play better than a low-cost backup offering based on...

Sun Says ‘Me Too’ on Encryption Keys

Far from being less complicated, the data encryption key management picture got a little cloudier today when Sun Microsystems...

EMC, HP, IBM Team Up On Encryption...

Seven IT vendors have banded together to propose an encryption key management standard, an important step toward a more...

Could Cisco Buy VMware?

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) has long been rumored to be interested in acquiring EMC (NYSE: EMC). Now the networking...

NetApp’s Storage Sales Slammed By Slowdown

The slowing economy took a bigger than expected bite out of NetApp's (NASDAQ: NTAP) quarterly sales, the latest evidence...

Microsoft Sees Opportunity in Mobile Phone Data...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will unveil a new service next week that will sync data between mobile phones and the...

Woz Joins Solid State Storage Startup

Solid state storage startup Fusion-io has added one of the biggest names in technology to its management team: Apple...