Paul Shread

About 30% of companies lack a formal disaster recovery strategy, and 64% of companies say their data backup and disaster recovery plans have significant vulnerabilities, according to a recent national survey sponsored by Imation Corp. The lack of a sound DR strategy leaves those companies vulnerable to potential data loss as a result of natural […]

Five tech companies are teaming to demonstrate new serial disk technology at this week’s HP World conference. Adaptec, HP, Intel, Maxtor, and Seagate will showcase Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology at the Atlanta show, including the first 2.5- and 3.5-inch SAS disk drives and the first prototype SAS chip architected to run at 3 and […]

HP has announced five new services for optimizing and managing heterogeneous storage environments, along with enhancements to the company’s Pay per Use solution for HP StorageWorks XP disk arrays, which allows customers to pay based on actual storage capacity usage. The new network storage services include HP Data Replication Solution, HP Disaster Tolerant Management, HP […]

In a move that could boost the fortunes of storage firms, NASD, the financial services industry’s self-regulatory body, yesterday ordered securities brokers and dealers to save instant messages (IMs) sent to clients and employees for at least three years. “NASD recognizes that instant messaging is becoming increasingly popular as a real-time method of communicating and […]

HP retained the top storage spot in the first quarter, according to IDC’s Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, but IBM and Dell are growing fast. HP boasted 26.3% market share and $1.26 billion in revenues in the first quarter, IDC said (see table at bottom). IBM was second at 19.1% and $917 million — […]

HP and Mirapoint are claiming record performance results for a messaging system combined with network storage. The companies say the record-breaking architecture, which consists of an HP StorageWorks Disk Array xp128 and Mirapoint Message Server M4000, delivers SPECmail message capacity and performance of 1.25 million SPECmail users — nearly 25% higher than the previous record […]

Merrill Lynch analysts held an unusual bull-bear debate on tech stocks Tuesday. Richard McCabe, Merrill’s chief technical analyst, said tech stocks could rally 50% from current levels in the coming months. But Merrill technology analyst Steven Milunovich has no plans to go along for the ride. Milunovich said he is keeping tech stocks at a […]

If technology is becoming a commodity, then Dell may be the best-positioned tech company of them all. In an environment where price has become a top priority, Dell’s first-rate execution is enabling the company to grow far faster than the rest of the field. Global shipments were up 29% in the first quarter – while […]

IBM has boosted its TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (codenamed “Shark”) to give the new flagship IBM eServer z990 improved data protection and access for business continuity and efficiency. “As the backbone of IBM’s storage product family, we have continued to enhance Shark to deliver increased value to our customers,” states Roland Hagan, Storage Systems Vice […]

The worldwide Fibre Channel storage area network market grew only 3% last year, according to Gartner, but compared to the rest of the IT industry, that made FC SAN spending a standout. “While the Fibre Channel industry experienced slower growth than in previous years, any increase is a show of strength in what was another […]