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 Focus: Databases and Storage Architecture

All too often I have seen the process of determining what storage and configuration settings should be assigned to...

Benchmarking Storage Systems, Part 3

This is the final installment in our three-part series on benchmarking. Part 1 examined each of the components...

Benchmarking Storage Systems, Part 2

This is the second in a three-part series on benchmarking. Part 1 examined each of the components that...

Benchmarking Storage Systems, Part 1

Benchmarking storage systems has become very complex over the years given all of the hardware and software parts being...

Storage Outlook: What’s on the Storage...

Over the last year we've looked at different rates of increases for CPUs and storage, which show improvements in...

Overcoming Disaster Recovery Obstacles for HPC Sites

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

Fibre Channel Directors: Myths, Realities, and Evaluations

A great deal has been written about Fibre Channel directors in a number of reputable publications, but how exactly...

Storage Winners and Losers: Hedging Your Bets

Ten years ago high performance computing (HPC) vendors included the likes of Cray, SGI, Compaq/DEC, NEC, and several other...

Securing Data Across SANs, WANs, and Shared...

Data security for shared file systems is becoming an issue of increasing importance. As data is distributed over...