Henry Newman

Network-attached storage (NAS) is widely viewed as a more cost-effective solution than a shared file system running over a Fibre Channel network.The cost

It seems as if every storage vendor is either bringing virtualization products to market, or talking about their plans to do so. With all the talk about

A recent Storage Networking Industry Association End User Council survey examined storage pain points (See "Storage Users Speak Out") and came up with

1, 2, 4, 8, 10: Those numbers aren't some high school football cheer, but Fibre Channel options facing users over the last five years and into the future.

Like any good pundit, at the end of October 2003 I made some predictions for 2004 and beyond. If you're one of those people who likes to look back at old

In my previous column (Let's Bid Adieu to Block Devices and SCSI), I documented all the reasons why block device and SCSI technologies are ripe for

The concept of block devices has been around for a long time, so long it's hard to pin down when the technology first appeared. I checked with some

Until recently, we had only two choices for host bus adapter (HBA) and switch failover , and those were generally available via the volume manager or a

Over the last few months, the issue of long-term tape archiving has come up in my work several times.Each time the issue is brought up, I hear from

A little more than a year ago, a customer told me his company was going to write tapes remotely over an OC-3 connection. The tape drive being used was the

The use of hierarchical storage management (HSM) software has become more common, since it has some significant advantages over standard backup/restore

Preparing for a disaster is more often than not part of the storage planning process, and without question, it is one of the most difficult tasks, since