Henry Newman

A few months ago, I received an email from a reader in Australia, Iain Anderson, who took issue with my article Purchasing Professional Storage Services,

As file systems have continued to grow in size, fragmentation has become an increasingly important issue. It wasn’t all that long ago that we were living

In open storage environments it’s quite common for a person or group of people to be called upon to resolve an issue that involves the hardware and/or

In our last article we covered some of the basics of purchasing storage professional services (Storage PS). This time we are going to go into more detail

One of the largest costs associated with storage hardware and software acquisition is purchasing the services to integrate the hardware and software into

A few weeks ago I had a dream that I was the COB, CEO, and CTO of a major storage company, with the opportunity to architect and develop any product I

All too often I have seen the process of determining what storage and configuration settings should be assigned to a database become a completely

This is the final installment in our three-part series on benchmarking. Part 1 examined each of the components that might be included in a typical

This is the second in a three-part series on benchmarking. Part 1 examined each of the components that might be included in a typical benchmark. Today

Benchmarking storage systems has become very complex over the years given all of the hardware and software parts being used for both NAS and SAN systems.

Over the last year we've looked at different rates of increases for CPUs and storage, which show improvements in storage are clearly lagging behind those

Since 9/11 all types of organizations have been talking about, struggling with, and implementing various disaster recovery plans. Even before 9/11 many