Henry Newman

My article three weeks ago on Linux file systems set off a firestorm unlike any other I've written in the decade I've been writing on storage and

I am frequently asked by potential customers with high I/O requirements if they can use Linux instead of AIX or Solaris.No one ever asks me about

There is a new storage technology on the market, but it's really an old technology with a new twist: SSD drives made of flash memory.About 10 years ago,

NFS was designed by Sun Microsystems in 1984 to connect their systems, and in the process revolutionized the storage industry by allowing file systems to

Four years ago, I dreamt about what it would be like to be able to create my perfect storage product (I know what you're thinking — I probably need to get

The recent EMC-NetApp benchmarking controversy got me thinking: Hardware isn't the only benchmark category that could use an overhaul. File system

Online backup vendors have got it all wrong.Last week's article that showed that online backup providers vastly prefer disk over tape made me wonder if we

It's time once again to look back on the storage predictions I made a year ago and look ahead at what might be in our storage future for 2008 and

Data protection and backup get a lot of attention, and rightfully so, but silent data corruption, or "bit rot," can wreak as much if not more havoc and be

As the growth of data and files continues to explode, use of traditional backup techniques becomes more and more difficult, fueling the growth of

It was not all that long ago that RAID-6 was just some theoretical RAID level in books that was not implemented by vendors. RAID was expensive, and the

A "hot spot" in storage architecture isn't nearly as racy as it sounds. In fact, it's quite the opposite: It's a part of the disk system that has