Henry Newman

The death of tape storage has been loudly proclaimed for what seems like decades now. But a recent breakthrough in tape management could breathe new life into the long-running technology and change archiving and even long-term backup as we know it. The breakthrough is a technology called the Linear Tape File System (LTFS), which was […]

America has virtually undisputed leadership in storage. From filesystems to RAID controllers to disk and tape drives, the U.S. is top dog. But there’s no guarantee it will retain this status. Data storage Henry Newman looks ahead and assesses the U.S.’s prospects in the global marketplace. Why America Leads in Data Storage Here are the […]

Will the data storage industry never learn? Decades-long mistakes keep on getting repeated, opines storage expert Henry Newman. The storage industry continues to make the same mistakes over and over again, and enterprises continue to take vendors’ bold statements as facts. Previously, we introduced our two-part series, “The Evolution of Stupidity,” explaining how issues seemingly […]

Data storage expert Henry Newman looks back at the history of storage and feels amazed at how often the same mistakes have been repeated. Don’t people ever learn? It continues to amaze me that we repeat the same errors over and over again. Stupid might not be the best word — or a fair term […]

Data storage expert Henry Newman points out that tape data storage has a limited lifespan. He goes inside the numbers to provide guidance about data managers can understand this limitation long before it causes problems. In August 2006 I wrote an article exposing the fact that, like any device, tape has a life span. As […]

Data storage expert Henry Newman talks about the hard reality of tape storage: it wears out. Yet Newman opines that tape is still the best data storage medium.   In August 2006 I wrote an article exposing the fact that, like any device, tape has a life span. As all of you who read this […]

Data storage guru Henry Newman points out that the importance — and headaches — of the continual migration to tape storage. As he notes “tape migration is one of the biggest issues in the tape community, if not the biggest.”   Tape used for computers has been around for about 60 years. That makes the […]

The year 2010 was a year of stagnation and consolidation in the data storage industry, beset by a down economy. The year ahead will, again, not see huge changes, according to storage expert Henry Newman. My ten storage predictions for 2011: There will not be huge changes next year because there has not been a […]

Noted data storage expert Henry Newman points out — in contradiction to other tech analysts — that budgeting for storage requires more than simply extrapolating from today’s costs. Those of you that read my column regularly know I look at things a little differently than some of the big name industry analysts, such as Gartner […]

Unfortunately, storage management tools have less functionality across different vendor platforms and are far most costly than equivalent network management tools. Data storage Henry Newman discusses the trends. Most people I speak with at network operations centers (NOCs) rate today’s network management tools as very good or excellent. However, the same cannot be said for […]