Biography:Jeff Bonwick
Jeff Bonwick invented and led development of the ZFS file system,[1] which was used in Oracle Corporation's ZFS storage products as well as startups including Nexenta, Delphix, Joyent, and Datto, Inc.[2][3] Bonwick is also the inventor of slab allocation,[4][5] which is used in many operating systems including MacOS and Linux, and the LZJB compression algorithm.
His roles included Sun Fellow,[6][7] Sun Storage CTO,[8] and Oracle vice president.[9]
History
In 2010 Bonwick co-founded a small company called DSSD with Mike Shapiro and Bill Moore, and became chief technical officer.[10] He co-invented DSSD's system hardware architecture and software. He developed DSSD's whole-system simulator, which enabled the team to explore possible hardware topologies and software algorithms.[11] DSSD was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2014,[12] which then became part of Dell Technologies in 2016. By the end of 2016, Bill Moore had left the company, while Bonwick remained as CTO.[13] The DSSD product, called D5, was cancelled in March 2017.[14]
LZJB
Bonwick invented LZJB, a lossless data compression algorithm to compress crash dumps and data in ZFS. The software is CDDL license licensed. It includes a number of improvements to the LZRW1 algorithm, a member of the Lempel–Ziv family of compression algorithms.[15] The name LZJB is derived from its parent algorithm and its creator — Lempel Ziv Jeff Bonwick.
References
- ↑ Stanik, John (September–October 2007). "A Conversation with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore". ACM Queue (Association for Computing Machinery) 5 (6): 13–19. doi:10.1145/1317394.1317400.
- ↑ "The Birth of ZFS". OpenZFS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcV2PaMTAJ4.
- ↑ "Sun's ZFS Creator to Quit Oracle and Join Startup". eWeek. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Suns-ZFS-Creator-to-Quit-Oracle-and-Join-Startup-519195.
- ↑ Bonwick, Jeff (June 14, 2005). "The story behind the slab allocator". Oracle. https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/entry/now_it_can_be_told.
- ↑ http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/10-unsung-heroes-of-modern-technology-483430
- ↑ "Sun Storage Guru Bonwick Named 14th Sun Fellow". Oracle Blog. https://blogs.oracle.com/ontherecord/entry/sun_storage_guru_bonwick_named.
- ↑ "Sun Engineer Jeff Bonwick is New Sun Fellow". 112. System News, Inc.. 26 June 2007. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/112/4/news/18273.
- ↑ Stammers, Tim. "Q&A: Jeff Bonwick, Sun's Storage CTO and Bill Moore, ZFS co-designer". TechNews. http://www.netdotwork.co.za/regular.aspx?pklregularid=3314.
- ↑ "And now, page 2". https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/entry/and_now_page_2.
- ↑ Stacey Higginbotham (April 4, 2013). "Meet DSSD, Andy Bechtolsheim's secret chip startup for big data". Giga Om. http://gigaom.com/2013/04/04/meet-dssd-andy-bechtolsheims-secret-chip-startup-for-big-data/.
- ↑ Harris, Robin. "What is DSSD Building?". TechnoQWAN LLC. http://storagemojo.com/2013/03/13/what-is-dssd-building/.
- ↑ Sephen Lawson (May 5, 2014). "EMC acquires flash storage startup DSSD". Computer World. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2489005/data-center/emc-acquires-flash-storage-startup-dssd.html.
- ↑ Chris Mellor (December 9, 2016). "DSSD President quits Dell EMC". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/09/dssd_president_quits_dell_emc/.
- ↑ Chris Mellor (March 2, 2017). "Dell kills off standalone DSSD D5, scatters remains into other gear: Blueprints and staff shifted to different projects after EMC spent '$1bn' on tech". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/02/dell_cans_standalone_dssd/.
- ↑ Rathore, Y.; Ahirwar, M.; Pandey, R. (2013). "A Brief Study of Data Compression Algorithms". Journal of Computer Science IJCSIS 11 (10): 90. https://www.academia.edu/11814232.
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