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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The Future of NFS Arrives

NFS was designed by Sun Microsystems in 1984 to connect their systems, and in the process revolutionized the...

Building a Perfect Storage World

Four years ago, I dreamt about what it would be like to be able to create my perfect...

Can Storage Benchmarks Be Trusted?

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

All We Are Saying Is Give Tape...

Online backup vendors have got it all wrong.Last week's article that showed that online backup providers vastly prefer disk...

Storage Horizon 2008: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

It's time once again to look back on the storage predictions I made a year ago and look...

When Bits Go Bad

Data protection and backup get a lot of attention, and rightfully so, but silent data corruption, or "bit...

Preparing for Exascale Archives

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

RAID-6 Is Here to Stay. Deal With...

It was not all that long ago that RAID-6 was just some theoretical RAID level in books that...

Cooling Storage ‘Hot Spots’

A "hot spot" in storage architecture isn't nearly as racy as it sounds. In fact, it's quite the...