Henry Newman

We failed. Jeff and I tried and tried to get the hardware to run the file system tests that we had written about. Originally, Jeff had all of the hardware

The United States leads in storage now, but what about in the future? I am not, nor have I ever been, xenophobic, but I have been wondering why most of

The storage industry continues to make the same mistakes over and over again, and enterprises continue to take vendors' bold statements as facts.

Catchy title, right? Here's where it came from?A few times a year, the editorial team and I have a conference call to discuss future articles, brainstorm

We have all heard about the high-profile cases of groups hacking into a system and making off with the loot. Once the hacker gets into a system, it is

In August 2006 I wrote an article exposing the fact that, like any device, tape has a life span. As all of you who read this column regularly know, I am a

If you are a regular reader you know Jeff Layton and I have similar approaches to technology issues and problem solving. We also both like file systems

Tape used for computers has been around for about 60 years. That makes the technology older than most and far older than most of the people working in the

I have long been a proponent of FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet). At one time, before the 2008 economic meltdown, I thought that paradigm-shifting

Even 20 years ago applications ran in parallel in novel research projects at companies such as Thinking Machines and Kendall Square Research. Neither of

Both tape-based and disk-based archives are growing at tremendous rates that are exceeding the density increases in storage technology and the reliability

Disaster recovery (DR) is often discussed in broad terms throughout the storage industry, but in this article I will explore a specific segment of the