[ale] Job in Seattle

[Derek Atkins]

You mean like building your own Backblaze pod?

http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibrations-storage-pod-3-0/

Or you could buy an off-the-shelf 4U 24-hot-swap-bay enclosure for ~$400,
fill it with 4TB drives, put on FreeNAS with RAIDZ2, and voila, you now
have 64TB of usable space.

-derek

On Thu, January 2, 2014 6:53 pm, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I would love to be able to put together big filesystems using commodity
> parts in easily-fabbed enclosures and various F/OSS bits and pieces so
> as to be able to tell the EMCs, NetApps, etc. of the world to pound
> sand.  Never liked working with that stuff nor their vendors.
>
> On 1/2/14, 6:07 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>
>> EMC squared is typically just called EMC by most employees and
>> customers so I think you're talking about the same company.
>>
>> Around here we have other choice names for EMC but that's a long
>> story.  :-)   Their service in recent years often made me think EMC
>> was an acronym for:
>>
>> Evidently
>>
>> Meaningless
>>
>> Customers
>>
>> *From:*ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of
>> *Vernard Martin
>> *Sent:* Thursday, January 02, 2014 5:03 PM
>> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts; pbcartwright at gmail.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Job in Seattle
>>
>> On 1/2/2014 8:21 AM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>>
>>     You are asking the wrong person.
>>
>>     The company is EMC^2 (that's EMC squared).
>>
>>     www.emc.com <http://www.emc.com>
>>
>>     They provide (very) large file systems for large clusters and need
>>     programmers. Obviously petabye file systems are going to be
>>     distributed across multiple disc arrays on multiple machines in a
>>     cluster and, sometimes, spread out among multiple clusters.
>>
>>     I know they >mostly< use C, but that some bits and pieces are
>>     written in other languages, including C++, Python, and probably a
>>     half-dozen others.
>>
>>     If anyone has the requisite skills (or thinks he/she may have
>>     those skills), I can put you in touch with my son, who manages a
>>     team of software engineers. He is NOT a PHB.
>>
>>
>> I know that EMC (dunno about EMC2)  is looking to build some new
>> petabyte capable filesystems that focus on storing metadata of several
>> specific industries (bioinformatics is one of them).  Big data
>> experience isn't as relevant for that.
>>
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