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.

Storage Budgeting Tips

With the price per gigabyte of storage coming down rapidly, that line item is no longer the overriding consideration for most storage budgets. While that is some...

The Perils of Long-Term Storage

Over the last few months, the issue of long-term tape archiving has come up in my work several times. Each time the issue is brought up, I hear...

Tale of the Tape: Beware of Wind Quality

Originally appeared on Enterprise Storage Forum. Click here for the full article. A little more than a year ago, a customer told me his company was going...

The Perils of Long-Term Storage

Over the last few months, the issue of long-term tape archiving has come up in my work several times. Each time the issue is brought up,...

Storage King for a Day: Dreaming of Storage

A few weeks ago I had a dream that I was the COB, CEO, and CTO of a major storage company, with the opportunity to...

Storage Winners and Losers: Hedging Your Bets

Ten years ago high performance computing (HPC) vendors included the likes of Cray, SGI, Compaq/DEC, NEC, and several other companies. Today for large servers...

25 Years of Innovation: The Life of Laurence P. Schermer

This month is a tribute to a close personal friend, co-worker, and technical genius who died tragically in April of 2003. I am writing this to...

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