[ale] Job in Seattle

[Jeff Hubbs]

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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