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 State of File Systems Technology, Problem...

If you are a regular reader you know Jeff Layton and I have similar approaches to technology issues and...

Tape Migration: Ignore It at Your Peril

Tape used for computers has been around for about 60 years. That makes the technology older than most and...

FCoE Gets Lost in Vendor Stupidity

I have long been a proponent of FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet). At one time, before the 2008 economic...

Ranting About Parallel I/O: We Need Standards!

Even 20 years ago applications ran in parallel in novel research projects at companies such as Thinking Machines and...

Is Architecture Planning for Large Archives an...

Both tape-based and disk-based archives are growing at tremendous rates that are exceeding the density increases in storage technology...

Disaster Recovery Planning for Large Archives

Disaster recovery (DR) is often discussed in broad terms throughout the storage industry, but in this article I will...

Top 10 Storage Predictions for 2011 (and...

It is another year and another try at predicting the future in our complex storage industry. The year...

Budgeting for Disk Storage, 2010 – 2013

 Those of you that read my column regularly know I look at things a little differently than some of...

The Slow Climb Out of Storage Management...

Most people I speak with at network operations centers (NOCs) rate today’s network management tools as very good or...