Henry Newman

This is the first in a two-part series that looks at the real cost of storage. The cost of storage is not just the cost of the drives and the RAID controller, but also includes the power costs for the drives and the cooling of the air because of the heat the drives create, among […]

Recently I’ve run into a few storage companies I had trouble with in my job as a consultant because I ignored some obvious warning signs, so I thought I’d set a few of them down to help you avoid the same fate. There are warning signs that buyers of technology should be aware of before […]

Another year has passed, so it’s time once again to look at the predictions I made last year, and to look ahead at what may be in store for the storage industry in 2006. In so doing, we’ll not only be judging my prognostication skills, but also hopefully gaining insight into where the storage market […]

Recently, I was asked to develop a set of evaluation criteria for a NAS installation. The customer wanted a NAS that supported more than 18 TB and scaled to twice that, and they also wanted the NAS to operate with a single file system. As I generally work with larger requirements in the HPC storage […]

I was recently at a customer site working to architect a backup solution for a large environment that contained scientific data. At this site, a majority of the data is under HSM control, but departmental NAS servers for home directories and smaller site-specific tasks were not being backed up. The customer and I started talking, […]

Some storage vendors have been predicting the death of tape since the mid-1990s, when 3.5-inch disk drive densities started to increase. I remember a sales manager for a storage vendor telling me at the time that a customer was “just plain stupid” to have its 30 TB archive on tape and should be buying spinning disk […]