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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Shared File Systems: Why Pay More?

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

Virtualization: What’s In It For You?

It seems as if every storage vendor is either bringing virtualization products to market, or talking about their plans...

Users Must Help Ease Storage Pain

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

1, 2, 4, 8, 10: The Evolution...

1, 2, 4, 8, 10: Those numbers aren't some high school football cheer, but Fibre Channel options facing users...

The Storage Horizon: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Like any good pundit, at the end of October 2003 I made some predictions for 2004 and beyond. If...

A Storage Framework for the Future

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

Let’s Bid Adieu to Block Devices and...

The concept of block devices has been around for a long time, so long it's hard to pin down...

Getting Failover Right

Until recently, we had only two choices for host bus adapter (HBA) and switch failover , and those...

The Perils of Long-Term Storage

Over the last few months, the issue of long-term tape archiving has come up in my work several times.Each...