Henry Newman

Recently I've run into a few storage companies I had trouble with in my job as a consultant because I ignored some obvious warning signs, so I thought I'd

Another year has passed, so it's time once again to look at the predictions I made last year, and to look ahead at what may be in store for the storage

I have been thinking lately about some of the storage challenges that we have faced and why dealing with storage has been so difficult. Looking at

With the price per gigabyte of storage coming down rapidly, that line item is no longer the overriding consideration for most storage budgets. While that

Recently, I was asked to develop a set of evaluation criteria for a NAS installation. The customer wanted a NAS that supported more than 18 TB and scaled

Over Memorial Day weekend, I experienced what every user of a computer system fears the most: a hard drive crash. For the next few hours, I hoped that it

I was recently at a customer site working to architect a backup solution for a large environment that contained scientific data. At this site, a majority

Last week, we looked at the limitations of current technologies for managing data over the long haul. In this article, we'll explore technologies that

Management of data over its lifecycle is a vexing problem. The first questions that come to mind are how long should that life be, and who should decide?

Some storage vendors have been predicting the death of tape since the mid-1990s, when 3.5-inch disk drive densities started to increase. I remember a

With all of the hype surrounding new laws and regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxleythat dictate short-term and long-term data storage and privacy,

In the first part of this series, we discussed the significant cost differences between NAS devices and Fibre Channel RAID-based shared file