Michael W. Shapiro is an American computer programmer who worked in operating systems and storage at

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, and EMC. While working at Sun Microsystems, Shapiro developed

pgrep pgrep is a command-line utility initially written for use with the Solaris 7 operating system by Mike Shapiro. It has since been available in illumos and reimplemented for the Linux and BSDs (DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD). It sea ...

, the

Modular Debugger The modular debugger (mdb) is an extensible, low-level debugger developed by Sun Microsystems for the Solaris 7 operating system. It is now open sourced, under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). Its source code is now availab ...

(MDB),

DTrace DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework originally created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time. Originally developed for Solaris, it has since been released under ...

, fault management and diagnosis, and other software for Sun's

Solaris operating system Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. After the Sun acquisition by Oracle in 2010, it was renamed Oracle Solaris. Solaris superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993, and became known for it ...

. The

and

pkill (see ) is a command-line utility initially written for use with the Solaris 7 operating system in 1998. It has since been reimplemented for Linux and some BSDs. As with the and commands, is used to send signals to processes. The command a ...

utilities Shapiro created are today found in every major

Unix Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and ot ...

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 ZFS (previously: Zettabyte File System) is a file system with volume management capabilities. It began as part of the Sun Microsystems Solaris operating system in 2001. Large parts of Solaris – including ZFS – were published under an ope ...

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

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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 NVM Express (NVMe) or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCIS) is an open, logical-device interface specification for accessing a computer's non-volatile storage media usually attached via PCI Express (PCIe) bus. The ...

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

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, the DSSD group was folded into the EMC storage product division in 2017. Shapiro was a co-author of the

NVM Express over Fabrics NVM Express (NVMe) or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCIS) is an open, logical-device interface specification for accessing a computer's non-volatile storage media usually attached via PCI Express (PCIe) bus. The ...

storage protocol announced in 2014. By 2019, IDC analysts reported that NVMeoF was disrupting SAN purchasing by offering significant performance improvements for networked

SSDs A solid-state drive (SSD) is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory, and functioning as secondary storage in the hierarchy of computer storage. It is a ...

Publications

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NVM Express over Fabrics Protocol and Architecture Webcast

References

External links

HDD Vendors Screwed: TheRegister Interview with Mike Shapiro

Smart People on Ice: Battery Ventures Interview with Mike Shapiro and Adam Leventhal

DSSD bridges access latency gap with NVMe fabric flash magic
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shapiro, Mike Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists American computer programmers Solaris people Place of birth missing (living people) Sun Microsystems people