Henry Newman

It’s time once again to look back on the storage predictionsI made a year ago and look ahead at what might be in our storage future for 2008 and beyond. We’ll start with a review of how I did last year, which for me is always an interesting exercise because I get to see how […]

When I started writing this article, my premise was that the cost advantage of SATA drives over Fibre Channel (FC) drives was not that great in environments with performance requirements. Often when you write an article, you are trying to prove a point, but since this is more of an exploration, I will try to […]

I recently responded to an emergency at a customer site. The customer had an important database that had gotten corrupted, which they proceeded to restore from backup tapes. The customer has a good backup policy, yet it took them six days to get back on line. Naturally, this raises a number of questions. First of […]

Another year has passed, so it’s time once again to look at the predictionsI 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 has […]

I have been thinking lately about some of the storage challenges that we have faced and why dealing with storage has been so difficult. Looking at historical trends, it strikes me that this trend will just keep getting worse, unless vendors and management types begin to give us solutions and budgets to deal with these […]

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 relief for storage users, in other ways it creates a new problem: how long should you wait for storage to get faster and cheaper before you buy? Add […]

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 from supposedly smart people, ”We will put it on tape and migrate it in 15 years, one-half of the shelf life of the tape.” The people saying […]

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 to write tapes remotely over an OC-3 connection. The tape drive being used was the StorageTek T9940B, which has a native transfer rate of 30 MB/sec and can […]

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 from supposedly smart people, “We will put it on tape and migrate it in 15 years, one-half of the shelf life of the tape.” The people saying […]

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 architect and develop any product I wanted. Basically, I got to be the storage king in this dream, but of course, with being a king comes the responsibilities of your […]