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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Storage I/O and the Laws of Physics

This is an update of one of my first articles for Enterprise Storage Forum from way back in 2002....

How Cache Management Could Eat Your Lunch

More and more vendors are making wild claims about their appliances with Flash cache. Most RAID controller vendors and...

Tuning Your RAID Controller for Maximum Storage...

Tuning RAID controllers is not as difficult as some vendors would have you believe; there's no need for professional services to...

Why Solid State Drives Won’t Replace Spinning...

It wasn't that long ago that solid state drives (SSDs) were DRAM-based and cost a fortune. Then the proliferation...

Why Enterprise Tape Can’t Get No Respect

We have all heard for years about tiered data storage for disk arrays. Tier 1 is usually enterprise disk,...

Cloud Storage Will Be Limited By Drive...

We've all probably heard more than we want to hear about clouds this week, thanks to EMC World,...

Tape Storage, Fibre Channel and Technology Innovation

Many large IT organizations have a strategic planning process that tries to figure out which technologies they will...

Storage Networking Product Roadmaps Gone Bad

As someone who designs data storage networking systems, I often get non-disclosure agreement (NDA) briefings from vendors and...

Choosing the Right Solid State Drive for...

Choosing the right solid state drive (SSD) for your enterprise storage networking environment is a critical decision — and...