Michael W. Shapiro is an American computer programmer who worked in operating systems and storage at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and EMC.
[14] Shapiro announced his departure from Oracle in a 2010 blog posting,[15] and was revealed several years later as a member of the founding team of DSSD when EMC purchased the startup.
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.
[17] The DSSD product was used in the TACC 2015 "Wrangler" computer cluster[18] and received HPCwire's Editor's Choice Award later that year.
[21] By 2019, IDC analysts reported that NVMeoF was disrupting SAN purchasing by offering significant performance improvements for networked SSDs.