Bay Microsystems announced that SOFTBANK TELECOM has deployed
Bay Microsystems ABEx2020 Multi-Service Transport Gateway to deliver high-
performance carrier Infiniband services as part of its Wide Area Virtualization
infrastructure and to demonstrate its automated multi-site disaster recovery
solution.
The Wide Area Virtualization infrastructure, implemented
between SOFTBANK TELECOM data centers in Tokyo
and Osaka (approximately
500 km apart), included virtualization of servers, storage, and I/O. Infiniband
was adopted as the datacenter network, providing the highest performing unified
server and storage solution. SOFTBANK TELECOM successfully demonstrated the
automated recovery of VMware virtual servers at the remote data center and the
ability to migrate VMware servers between data centers live without
interruption.
The Bay Microsystems ABEx 2020 Multi-Service Transport
Gateway enabled SOFTBANK TELECOM to extend the Infiniband network between data centers
across their wide area OC-192 SONET network. Ethernet services were also provisioned
from the same ABEx 2020 in order to interconnect the network management network
at both sites. The ABEx 2020 delivers multiple services, including carrier
Infiniband, at line rate speeds across any metro or wide area network. This
enabled SOFTBANK TELECOM to extend high performance server virtualization,
storage virtualization, and I/O virtualization between multiple datacenters.
"Using Bay Microsystems Infiniband extension, we were
able to realize a scalable solution that enables rapid, automated, and remotely
managed disaster recovery between disparate data centers," said Takeshi
Hashimoto, senior research engineer at SOFTBANK TELECOM Laboratories.
"This allows us to deliver services that greatly improve our customer's
continuity of operations, capabilities that have been difficult to achieve with
existing solutions."
As a result of the trial deployment, the following industry
firsts were demonstrated:
Automated recovery of virtual machines at remote data
centers
Migration of live application servers between data centers
"We are delighted to work together with SOFTBANK
TELECOM to develop and deliver this innovative solution which will undoubtedly
raise the bar for performance and reliability between geographically-separated
data centers spanning metro or wide area networks," said Peter Yamasaki,
Systems Business Development Director at Bay Microsystems. "Wide Area Virtualization
allows enterprises and providers to realize important new capabilities by
extending virtual machine infrastructure globally."
Additional contributions to the solution included I/O
virtualization from Xsigo Systems, storage virtualization and mirroring from DataCore
Software Corporation and integration assistance from Sumisho Computer Systems
Corporation (SCS).
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All engineers’ salary is less than $50k/year, even the senior engineers. Stock options are in garbage status for >10years.
Before you join, if you ask for higher salary, your Stock Option numbers on the offer letter will stay as “virtual”, because you will be put in a “contractor” position and usually be pushed out before Stock Option vested.
If you accept the low salary, you can have a lot of Stock Options. But, it had re-funding every 2 years. Stock is diluted again and again, and worth nothing.
2. worst management style
Most of engineers are asian. Tony Chiang, who is VP of engineering, always talked in a “Mafia” way, insulting engineers, forcing people to work overtime, teasing your family members, jesting other funders.
Management team is playing tricks against employees, everywhere. For example, your “Stock Option Plan” document will be delayed for 3~6 months after your first working day. And, when you started reading it, you can see an item, saying:
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If this employee quit or is removed from company, within 6 months he or she can’t work for other companies in this same area.
…..
By signing this document, we both agree all disputes will be solved within company, and won’t be spreaded outside.
….
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3. bad financing
revenue is very small, almost none. VC’s fund is not enough, and usually do re-funding every 1~2 years. This company did downsizing several times, the laid-off & fired workers aresparsed in many states.
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Bay Microsystems announced that SOFTBANK TELECOM has deployed
Bay Microsystems ABEx2020 Multi-Service Transport Gateway to deliver high-
performance carrier Infiniband services as part of its Wide Area Virtualization
infrastructure and to demonstrate its automated multi-site disaster recovery
solution.
