Henry Newman

Planning for solid state drive (SSD) hardware is a complex task that requires a good understanding of how SSDs are going to be used within your storage

Flashed-based solid-state drives (SSDs) are becoming a big issue for enterprise storage users; a number of customers I work with are planning for this new

Data storage has become the weak link in enterprise applications, and without a concerted effort on the part of storage vendors, the technology is in

As I wrote a year ago, the data storage market was going to be tough to predict this year because of the economy, and indeed, the economy did hold back

I was at a preservation archive workshop hosted by a U.S. government agency recently — these are installations that must preserve information in a digital

The following words were written on this site back in 2002, when Drew Bird was writing about the basics of storage area networks (SANs)."Many IT

Much has changed in the decade that Enterprise Storage Forum has been covering data storage technology, so in the next couple of articles, I'm going to

It seems like just about every day brings with it a new cloud storage product announcement from vendors big and small, but the reality is that beyond

The concept of parity-based RAID (levels 3, 5 and 6) is now pretty old in technological terms, and the technology's limitations will become pretty clear

The average consumer might not know much — if anything — about high-end technologies like pNFS, PCIe and 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE), but they could

RAID controllers designed for hard disks and IOPS aren't going to cut it in the new world of solid state drives (SSDs) and pNFS, which are capable of

The days may be numbered for the dominant data storage interconnect technology.I have been tracking the prices of 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) and 10Gb