Henry Newman

I am not the first nor will I be the last to write about picking the right cloud storage vendor for your company. Clearly, it’s a popular topic.There are

Recently I read in disbelief an article by Chris Mellor in The Register about Amazon Glacier. I've seen a lot of outrageous sales and marketing claims

The archive community is constantly asking the same question -- how many copies are necessary? Let's turn the question around and ask how many copies can

With the end of the recession arguably in sight, now is a good time to examine some of the promising technologies that were killed, shelved or delayed

The term "Big Data" is a too-often used buzzword to mean many things in many different industries. In business analytics, Big Data often means using the

During the past three to five years (depending on the industry in question), IT budgets have been modest at best. There has been a great deal more

Like it or not, cloud storage and computation is a consideration for many applications. How appropriate this is, is a question to be addressed in another

Someone I work with was giving me a hard time about how I write about technology and always talk about how good things are, but I never address the

During the past few weeks, I have been trying to get some information about how long a kernel context switch takes. You might ask, what is a context

Storage planning for virtualized systems requires some careful thinking about the issues that will impact users. One major tradeoff of virtualizing

It is another year and time for yet another try at predicting the future in our complex storage industry with myriad variables. The year in review for

With the Supercomputing show over, its myriad benchmark results provided on everything from CPU flops to memory bandwidth got me thinking about benchmarks