Henry Newman

Henry Newman has been a contributor to TechnologyAdvice websites for more than 20 years. His career in high-performance computing, storage and security dates to the early 1980s, when Cray was the name of a supercomputing company rather than an entry in Urban Dictionary. After nearly four decades of architecting IT systems, he recently retired as CTO of a storage company’s Federal group, but he rather quickly lost a bet that he wouldn't be able to stay retired by taking a consulting gig in his first month of retirement.
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RDMA TCP/IP: Coming Soon to a Network...

As PCI Express bus performance increases and the bus becomes commonplace, network performance will also increase. That will...

When Tape and RAID Don’t Get Along

Not long ago, I was working at a site where the customer was complaining about tape performance and...

Tape Wind Quality Improves, But…

About a year and a half ago, I wrote about the problem of tape wind quality, a serious issue...

FC SANs: Not For SMBs

There are many different definitions of small business. The U.S. and European Union, for example, each have their...

Waiting for Metadata Standards

Managing information can be difficult. We have operating systems and file systems that manage files and we also...

ILM and Databases: No Easy Choices

My article last summer on data management prompted an e-mail from an overseas reader who wondered how to...

Vendor Warning Signs

Recently I've run into a few storage companies I had trouble with in my job as a consultant because...

Storage Horizon 2006: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Another year has passed, so it's time once again to look at the predictions I made last year,...

Storage Headed for Trouble

I have been thinking lately about some of the storage challenges that we have faced and why dealing...