Paul Shread

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 […]

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” […]

It’s hard to call a few quarters a major trend, but so far HP’s recent turnaround is showing signs of sticking. And HP’s strong results also suggest that the company may be the cause of at least some of Dell’s recent troubles. HP reported blow-out quarterly results after the close on Thursday, showing none of […]

The storage security market has been heating up as of late, spurred by high-profile data breaches and growing congressional interest in the issue. Several vendors have come to market in recent weeks with new security offerings, and this time the vendors aren’t just standalone storage security plays like Decru, NeoScale, Vormetric and Kasten Chase. Here […]

A pair of blockbuster mergers in the technology sector Monday had investors wondering who might be next. Oracle’s $5.85 billion acquisition of Siebel and eBay’s $2.6 billion acquisition of VoIP provider Skype gave the Nasdaq a boost on an otherwise lackluster trading day. Oracle competitor SAP and Siebel competitor Salesforce.com were little changed as investors […]

Fears of an economic slowdown eased on Tuesday after a number of top tech companies reported strong earnings. Intel beat estimates soundly after the bell, with earnings of 34 cents a share on sales of $9.4 billion, driven by strong mobile chip sales. Gross margins of 59% also topped forecasts. The chip giant’s second quarter […]

An earnings and revenue disappointment from IBM coupled with slowing growth from Apple renewed fears of an economic slowdown on Thursday. Shares of Apple fell 9% Thursday despite stellar results, as investors fretted about the company’s prediction of flat sequential growth in the current quarter and a 13% jump in the company’s shares due to […]

Oracle beat Wall Street estimates and raised guidance after the close on Tuesday, but the stock was little changed in after-hours trading. On a GAAP basis (generally accepted accounting principles), Oracle’s earnings declined year-over-year from 12 to 10 cents a share due to charges related to the company’s acquisition of PeopleSoft. Excluding those items, Oracle’s […]

EMC on Monday announced general availability of its first 4 gigabit-per-second Fibre Channel offering, the Connectrix DS-4100B SAN switch solution based on Brocade’s SilkWorm 4100 SAN switches. EMC OEMs switches from the major storage switch vendors — McData, Brocade and Cisco — for its Connectrix offerings, and Brocade was the first to qualify. McData and […]

Apple delivered the earnings surprise of the season after the close on Wednesday, releasing results that far surpassed Wall Street estimates. Apple’s earnings of 70 cents a share blew past 48-cent estimates, and revenues soared 74% to $3.49 billion, well above $3.15 billion forecasts. The company reported better than expected margins of 28.5%, and also […]