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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Why Workloads Matter More Than IOPS or...

As disk drives and solid state drives (SSDs) get faster and faster, I think it is time we stop...

Rootkit Security: The Next Big Challenge

It has been sixteen months since I retired – or thought I was retiring – from my monthly column....

Backblaze: Is the Earth Flat?

Exactly one year ago today I published an article titled Selecting a Disk Drive: How Not to Do Research....

Follow the Money: Picking Technology Winners and...

After 12 years of writing a monthly column for Enterprise Storage Forum, it’s time to move on.A monthly column...

The Day the Cloud Died: Planning for...

"The Day the Cloud Died" (sung to the tune of "American Pie") A long, long time agoI can still...

Ensuring the Future of Data Archiving

The word "archive" has been thrown around for years and means lots of things to lots of different people....

The Future of HPC File Systems

I recently saw the slides that Fujitsu is using for the Hot Chips conference and noted that Fujitsu is...

Resource Management and Control: A Straw Proposal...

Resource management and controlling the allocation of resources for complex workloads has always been a topic for discussion in...

Caching, Flash, Disk and Storage’s Future

Much of the industry seems to have gotten the picture that doing all flash storage is not very practical...