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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Enterprise Technologies Will Change the Consumer PC...

The average consumer might not know much — if anything — about high-end technologies like pNFS, PCIe and 10Gb...

SSDs, pNFS Will Test RAID Controller Design

RAID controllers designed for hard disks and IOPS aren't going to cut it in the new world of solid...

Falling 10GbE Prices Spell Doom for Fibre...

The days may be numbered for the dominant data storage interconnect technology.I have been tracking the prices of...

File System Benchmarks Need to be Reformed

I've found myself getting worked up lately about some of the file system benchmark information and tests that...

Brother, Can You Spare a Petabyte?

Let's face it: Times are tough and there's a lot of pressure to cut costs. I hear it...

Rocks Don’t Need to Be Backed Up

My wife and I were in New York's Central Park last fall when we saw a nearly 4,000-year-old Egyptian...

File System Management Is Headed for Trouble

The POSIX file system interface isn't up to the task of managing today's data, resulting in costly fixes...

Storage Security Is More than Just Key...

Storage security is one of those big issues that keep IT managers up at night, worrying about whether...

Predicting the Future of Storage Technology

Another year has gone by, so it's time once again for another set of predictions for the storage...