Henry Newman

It is another year and another try at predicting the future in our complex storage industry. The year in review for 2010 can be summarized in two words --

 Those of you that read my column regularly know I look at things a little differently than some of the big name industry analysts, such as Gartner or

Most people I speak with at network operations centers (NOCs) rate today’s network management tools as very good or excellent. However, the same

This is an update of one of my first articles for Enterprise Storage Forum from way back in 2002. The article was well received, so I figured it was time

More and more vendors are making wild claims about their appliances with Flash cache. Most RAID controller vendors and NAS providers are planning to add

Tuning RAID controllers is not as difficult as some vendors would have you believe; there's no need for professional services to get the job done. Many of

It wasn't that long ago that solid state drives (SSDs) were DRAM-based and cost a fortune. Then the proliferation of mobile devices requiring shock and

We have all heard for years about tiered data storage for disk arrays. Tier 1 is usually enterprise disk, which was once Fibre Channel but more and more

We've all probably heard more than we want to hear about clouds this week, thanks to EMC World, but there are some things you need to think about if

Many large IT organizations have a strategic planning process that tries to figure out which technologies they will need in three to five years, and

As someone who designs data storage networking systems, I often get non-disclosure agreement (NDA) briefings from vendors and review public roadmaps, as

Choosing the right solid state drive (SSD) for your enterprise storage networking environment is a critical decision — and equally critical is