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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Storage Budgeting Tips

With the price per gigabyte of storage coming down rapidly, that line item is no longer the overriding...

Choosing the Right NAS

Recently, I was asked to develop a set of evaluation criteria for a NAS installation. The customer wanted a...

Testing Backup and Restore: Why It Matters

Over Memorial Day weekend, I experienced what every user of a computer system fears the most: a hard drive...

Getting Backup Right

I was recently at a customer site working to architect a backup solution for a large environment that...

Managing Data for a Lifetime, Part 2

Last week, we looked at the limitations of current technologies for managing data over the long haul. In...

Managing Data for a Lifetime

Management of data over its lifecycle is a vexing problem. The first questions that come to mind are...

Why Tape Won’t Die

Some storage vendors have been predicting the death of tape since the mid-1990s, when 3.5-inch disk drive densities started...

HIPAA and SOX: What You Need To...

With all of the hype surrounding new laws and regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxleythat dictate short-term and long-term...

Shared File Systems, Part 2: Why Pay...

In the first part of this series, we discussed the significant cost differences between NAS devices and Fibre Channel...