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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3PAR Adds Sub-Volume Solid State Drive Tiering

3PAR (NYSE: PAR) has added sub-volume tiering to its automated data storage tiering technology, beating EMC (NYSE: EMC) to...

Oracle Drops Hitachi Data Storage Arrays

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) will stop selling high-end data storage arrays from Hitachi Data Systems at the end of the...

Emulex, QLogic Battle Over Data, Storage Networking...

Emulex (NYSE: ELX) and QLogic (NASDAQ: QLGC) have stepped up their battle over converged data center networks in the...

EMC, NetApp Strike Online Backup and Recovery...

EMC (NYSE: EMC) and NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced a couple of deals this week to bring data backup and...

FalconStor, Violin Speed Storage Networks with SSDs

FalconStor Software (NASDAQ: FALC) and Violin Memory have combined storage virtualization and flash-based solid state drive (SSD) technology to...

Double-Take, Amazon Move Disaster Recovery to the...

Double-Take (NASDAQ: DBTK) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) are partnering on a new offering that gives smaller businesses an easy...

IBM Brings Deduplication to Mainframes

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is bringing data deduplication to its System z mainframes.Big Blue is taking the dedupe technology from...

Brocade Plunges on Weak Networking Sales

Shares of Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) lost nearly a quarter of their value today after the storage networking switch leader...

Iron Mountain Acquires Email Archiving Firm Mimosa

Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) is acquiring email and content archiving firm Mimosa Systems for $112 million in cash, adding...