Paul Shread

StorageRevolution.com launched Tuesday with the goal of finding an open source solution to the difficult issue of storage management. The group, co-founded by storage industry veteran Jon Toigo, bills itself as “the first consumer-driven open source initiative seeking to tackle one of the most intractable problems in storage technology today: building a commonsense framework for […]

EMC on Monday rolled out a new line of storage products aimed at small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) to better compete in the fastest-growing segment of the storage market. The new products are the result of a year-long development process led by Larry Zulch, vice president and general manager of the new EMC Insignia line. […]

Virtual server replication may soon get easier, thanks to NSI Software’s Double-Take for Virtual Systems. The product, launching next week, allows multiple physical servers to be monitored by, and failover to, a single server running multiple virtual machines. The application data from each server is replicated in real-time to the appropriate virtual machine on the […]

Incipient has raised an additional $24 million in venture funding, raising its total haul to $79 million over four rounds. All that for an intelligent storage product that has yet to ship. “It’s a complicated product and it needs a lot of testing,” said Incipient senior marketing vice president Robert Infantino. “Is anyone worth that […]

Google made its second move into the information classification and management (ICM) space Monday, combining its enterprise search offerings with Kazeon’s ICM technology. Kazeon will integrate its storage indexing and classification product, the Information Server IS1200, with Google’s enterprise search technology, and the start-up also joined the Google Enterprise Professional program. The result, the companies […]

Technology stocks have been battered in recent weeks on earnings that have failed to live up to Wall Street’s expectations, but EMC showed no signs of a slowdown in its latest quarterly report issued Tuesday morning. EMC, which commands about a quarter of the storage market, had reported preliminary results earlier this month that were […]

Clearwell Systems on Monday unveiled a solution that the company says helps make sense of the mountains of e-mail overwhelming enterprises. Clearwell calls its E-mail Intelligence Platform the “first dedicated e-mail intelligence solution that discovers, organizes and analyzes information contained in corporate e-mail systems.” The start-up, which also announced $4 million in funding from Sequoia […]

In a move toward the convergence of remote management and backup, wide area file services (WAFS) specialist Tacit Networks is set to announce the acquisition of remote backup firm Mobiliti next week, according to sources. “It’s cool,” said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “The whole point of Tacit is to […]

Crossroads Systems announced late Thursday that it is de-listing its stock from the Nasdaq stock market, citing “current and increasing regulatory burdens and costs.” The board of directors’ resolution cited “the burdens on management time, as well as increased costs for outside accounting and legal services caused by rules and regulations required of listed and […]

The storage industry ended 2005 on a strong note, according to a survey of resellers by Robert W. Baird & Co. analysts. The financial research firm surveyed 85 resellers representing $18 billion in annual sales, and found that 40% were above plan, “one of the more positive quarters we’ve seen” in the last 18 months, […]

Analysts from Robert W. Baird & Co. are predicting a solid year ahead for the storage market. In the last two weeks, Baird analysts Daniel Renouard, Frank Timons and Joel Inman surveyed 44 enterprises about their 2006 hardware budgets, technology, trends and vendor opinions. Among the respondents, they found “a reasonably healthy enterprise demand environment” […]

Just three years after entering the storage switch market, Cisco Systems has caught high-end market leader McData, according to Dell’Oro Group. Thanks to 50% sequential sales growth in the third quarter, Cisco’s $70 million in modular switch sales places the company “neck-to-neck with McData as the number one supplier of the high-end modular segment,” Dell’Oro […]