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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Selecting a Disk Drive: How Not to...

I wasn’t impressed last week when I saw Brian Beach’s blog on what disk drive to buy. I wasn’t...

Data Storage’s Changing Status Quo

A number of trends are coming together that are likely going to change how we use and access data...

Data Storage: Reviewing 2013, Forecasting 2014

Loyal readers, it's that time of year again when we look back to see where we've been and look...

Where is the Data Storage Innovation?

No, it is not time for my yearly predictions (that happens next month), but this month, leading up to...

Software Defined Storage and Networking: Will it...

We have all heard that software defined networks are going to solve all of our networking problems. Many vendors...

Tulips, Dot-coms and SANs: Why the SSD...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, philosopher George Santayana wrote more than a hundred...

Data Storage: REST vs. POSIX for Archives...

Here is my working hypothesis: POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) can’t scale to meet the demand of clouds and...

NFS vs Parallel: File System Performance Analysis

I was recently at a customer site working on a problem they had. This group was a customer of...

Storage Appliances Are the Future

I have been saying this for a long time, and the trend is clear: whatever your application, be it...