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American computer programmer
Mike Shapiro
BornMichael W. Shapiro
OccupationSoftware engineer

Michael W. Shapiro is an American computer programmer who worked in operating systems and storage at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and EMC.

While working at Sun Microsystems, Shapiro developed pgrep, the Modular Debugger (MDB), DTrace, fault management and diagnosis, and other software for Sun's Solaris operating system.

The pgrep and pkill utilities Shapiro created are today found in every major Unix operating system, including Linux, BSD, and macOS, and are commonly used by system administrators and developers.

Shapiro and the DTrace team received a Technology Innovation Award and Overall Gold Medal for Innovation for DTrace from The Wall Street Journal in 2006. DTrace was also recognized by USENIX with the Software Tools User Group (STUG) award in 2008. Over the next 10 years, DTrace was ported and incorporated into other major operating systems, including BSD and Apple's macOS.

Starting in 2006, Shapiro led Sun's engineering effort to build a commercial storage product using Solaris and Sun's ZFS filesystem, announced in 2008. In interviews with the New York Times and Fortune, Shapiro explained how a small engineering team at Sun dubbed "Fishworks" pitched the project to Sun's executives and developed the product outside of Sun's organizational structure.

After Oracle Corporation acquired Sun, Shapiro managed engineering for storage products as Vice President for Storage. Oracle reported in 2015 that the ZFS Storage product line had surpassed $1B in revenue.

Shapiro announced his departure from Oracle in a 2010 blog posting, and was revealed several years later as a member of the founding team of DSSD when EMC purchased the startup. He developed the DSSD software architecture with fellow Sun engineer Jeff Bonwick, and served as DSSD's vice president for software. Shapiro explained how DSSD built the industry's first NVM Express pooled storage system for multiple host computers in a 2016 interview with the Hot Aisle podcast. The DSSD product was used in the TACC 2015 "Wrangler" computer cluster and received HPCwire's Editor's Choice Award later that year.

After EMC was acquired by Dell Technologies, the DSSD group was folded into the EMC storage product division in 2017.

Shapiro was a co-author of the NVM Express over Fabrics storage protocol announced in 2014. By 2019, IDC analysts reported that NVMeoF was disrupting SAN purchasing by offering significant performance improvements for networked SSDs.

Publications

References

  1. https://blogs.oracle.com/mws/entry/introduction Mike Shapiro's Blog
  2. "Pgrep(1) - Linux man page".
  3. "Pkill(1) - OpenBSD manual pages".
  4. "Proctools".
  5. "Greater Grokking of pgrep". www.linux-magazine.com. 2016.
  6. "Sniffing Out Unix Processes Using pgrep". www.networkworld.com. 2017-02-27.
  7. Totty, Michael (September 2006). "The Winners Are..." The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Retrieved 2007-03-31.
  8. "2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '08)". 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  9. "Chapter 25. DTrace".
  10. "Mac OS X Leopard gets Sun's DTrace". ZDNet. 2006-08-08.
  11. "Sun rolls out its own storage appliances". techworld.com.au. 2008-11-11. Retrieved 2013-11-13.
  12. "Sun Microsystems Hopes to Shake Up Storage Industry". The New York Times. 2008-09-05.
  13. "Sun gambles big as outlook darkens". fortune.com. 2008-11-12.
  14. "Oracle Announces That Its ZFS Storage Appliance Has Surpassed $1 Billion In Revenue". storagereview.com. 2015-10-09.
  15. "End of File". 2010-10-22. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  16. Why DSSD is a Game Changer
  17. "The Hot Aisle – Re-Architecting the Storage Stack with DSSD's Mike Shapiro". www.inthedc.com. 2016-04-26.
  18. "TACC's "Wrangler" Uses DSSD Technology for Data-Intensive Computing". insidehpc.com. 2015-04-22.
  19. "TACC Recognized in HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards". www.hpcwire.com. 2015-11-17.
  20. Chris Mellor (March 2, 2017). "Dell kills off standalone DSSD D5, scatters remains into other gear". The Register. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  21. "NVM Express Organization Initiates "NVM Express over Fabrics" Effort; NVMe Specification Revision 1.2 Approaching Ratification". Press release. September 3, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  22. "NVMe over Fabrics creates data-center storage disruption". www.networkworld.com. 2019-05-14.

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