Henry Newman

I recently received a call from my wife saying that some of her pictures (she is a semi-professional photographer) were not displaying correctly and she

Every few months at Enterprise Storage Forum, we meet to discuss story ideas. One that comes up often is how much vendors use fear to sell their

This might sound a little weird coming from a lifelong propeller head, but the last home video game I played was Pong back in the 1970s, and that was

It wasn't too long ago that iSCSI vendors were claiming they were going to take over the world and leave Fibre Channel (FC) storage and SANs in the dust,

Sometimes I have written articles with the best of intentions, only to discover at some point in the future that I'd like to retract what I said. This is

In the first part of this series, we began an examination of the real cost differences between Fibre Channel (FC) and SATA.My assumption was that in

This is the first in a two-part series that looks at the real cost of storage. The cost of storage is not just the cost of the drives and the RAID

PCI Express, often called PCI-E, has important implications for system architecture that you will need to consider as you design architectures around this

It was not that long ago that a big database was something less than 2 TB. Today large databases can mean 100 or more terabytes, a growth of about 50

In my role as a storage and high performance computing consultant, I was recently working for a customer who was installing a very large archive system.

Another year has come and gone, and so it's time once again to look back on our storage predictions for 2006 and look ahead at what might be in store for

The idea for this article came out of a talk I was asked to give on why the I/O stack we have today is not well integrated (see Solving the I/O Problem).