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Harriet Coverston is an American computer scientist and software developer focused on large-scale secondary storage environments, who has previously participated to various kernel developments in HPC systems.[1] Harriet is an expert in large scale archiving systems, having participated to several large projects and product developments.

Career

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She started her career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1967 working on CDC 7600 Livermore Timesharing System [2] [3] within a team of 5 people. She stayed until 1974 and then moved to Control Data Corporation for 12 years to collaborate on the Cyber 205 Operating System and CDCNET.

In January 1986, she co-founded LSC (Large Scale Configurations) where she was vice-president of technology more than 15 years. LSC was a ISV developing SAM-QFS and QFS, two software dedicated to manage cold and archived data. QFS is a high performance file system and SAM is advanced storage management.

In 2001, Sun Microsystems acquired LSC and Harriet Coverston became distinguished engineer at Sun, a position she occupied until 2010. Oracle closed the acquisition of Sun early 2010.[4]

She co-founded Versity in March 2011 with Bruce Gilpin and acts as its CTO since its inception.[5] Versity is a storage ISV developer of archiving software.[6] [7] [8] The company developed ScoutFS,[9] a clustered disk file system, coupled with its archiving manager companion ScoutAM and the team also has added a S3 gateway.[10]

Harriet Coverston, CTO and co-founder, Versity Software

In August 2024, she received the SuperWomen of FMS Leadership Award[11][12] at the annual Future of Memory and Storage conference in Santa Clara, CA, for all her contributions during her long active career in data archiving domain.

Education

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Harriet Coverston received a BA in Mathematics from Florida State University.[citation needed]

Patents

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Harriet participates and co-owns 15 patents:[13]

  • File archiving system and method [14]
  • Delegation in a file system with distributed components [15]
  • File system with distributed components [16]
  • Method and system for collective file access using an mmap (memory-mapped file) [17] [18]
  • Dynamic routing of I/O requests in a multi-tier storage environment [19]
  • Dynamic data migration in a multi-tier storage system [20]
  • File archiving system and method [21]
  • Delegation in a file system with distributed components [22]
  • File system with distributed components [23]
  • Method, system, and program for providing data to an application program from a file in a file system [24]
  • Method, system, and program for managing files in a file system [25]
  • Archiving file system for data servers in a distributed network environment [26]
  • Method and apparatus for insuring recovery of file control information for secondary storage systems [27]
  • Method and apparatus for file storage allocation for secondary storage using large and small file blocks [28]

References

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  1. ^ "Short bio on Sandia Labs Laboratories".
  2. ^ "Livermore time-sharing system for the CDC 7600 (DBLP)".
  3. ^ Sutherland, George G.; Coverston, Harriet G.; Dubois, Pierre J.; Emery, Donald R.; Kent, Douglas A.; Lund, Paul E.; Powles, George H.; Storch, F. David; Tennant, Lee O.; von Buskirk, Donald L. (1971). "Livermore time-sharing system for the CDC 7600 (AMC)". ACM Sigops Operating Systems Review. 5 (2–3): 6–26. doi:10.1145/1232916.1232917.
  4. ^ "The end of Oracle HSM".
  5. ^ StorageNewsletter (May 9, 2011). "Harriet Coverston, co-founder and CTO of Versity".
  6. ^ Chris Mellor (June 21, 2016). "New storage upstart Versity offers S3 object storage interface".
  7. ^ Chris Mellor (April 9, 2014). "Cray flogs 1PB of TASty storage to German übercomputing boffins, leaves them in tiers".
  8. ^ Chris Mellor (November 6, 2013). "Supercomputer-maker Cray offers cold storage to hungry Big Data boys".
  9. ^ Philippe Nicolas (September 13, 2018). "Versity unveils new file system".
  10. ^ Philippe Nicolas (June 15, 2013). "Versity unveils its S3 gateway".
  11. ^ "SuperWomen of FMS Leadership Award". August 7, 2024.
  12. ^ "Harriet Coverston Honored by FMS as 2024 SuperWomen". July 23, 2024.
  13. ^ "Patents by Inventor Harriet G. Coverston".
  14. ^ "File archiving system and method". April 21, 2015.
  15. ^ "Delegation in a file system with distributed components". September 6, 2011.
  16. ^ "File system with distributed components". April 24, 2011.
  17. ^ "Method and system for collective file ac cess using an mmap (memory-mapped file)". January 12, 2010.
  18. ^ "Method and system for collective file ac cess using an mmap (memory-mapped file)". May 22, 2008.
  19. ^ "Dynamic routing of I/O requests in a multi-tier storage environment". May 26, 2009.
  20. ^ "Dynamic data migration in a multi-tier storage system". May 26, 2009.
  21. ^ "File archiving system and method". July 3, 2008.
  22. ^ "Delegation in a file system with distributed components". March 13, 2008.
  23. ^ "File system with distributed components". February 28, 2008.
  24. ^ "Method, system, and program for providing data to an application program from a file in a file system". January 2, 2003.
  25. ^ "Method, system, and program for managing files in a file system". January 2, 2003.
  26. ^ "Archiving file system for data servers in a distributed network environment". June 9, 1998.
  27. ^ "Method and apparatus for insuring recovery of file control information for secondary storage systems". April 2, 1996.
  28. ^ "Method and apparatus for file storage allocation for secondary storage using large and small file blocks". September 26, 1995.
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