It was recently announced that Panasas co-founder and chief scientist, Dr. Garth Gibson, has won the 2012 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing for his pioneering work with RAID, including his co-authorship of the influential “Berkeley RAID Paper” – A Case or Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID).
Garth’s groundbreaking paper introduced the concept of RAID, a truly disruptive technology which rapidly became the common configuration paradigm for disks at all but the very low end of the server market. The...
