John Corbin
President, Founder

As a founder in 2003, Mr. Corbin brings over 27 years of experience in the computing industry, the last 19 years in computer storage, to his position at NSPLab^SM. Prior, he was Chief Architect at CME Enterprises, Inc. where he architected and designed a NAS and SAN-based high performance scalable storage solution that has several patents pending. Mr. Corbin worked at Sun Microsystems for 13 years where he worked on numerous projects including the design and implementation of a floating license server, the improvement of the NFS implementation and the improvement of NFS server performance. Additionally, Mr. Corbin ported NFS to a multi-processor OS, re-designed NVRAM cache driver; implemented Networking Drivers and was the Performance Engineer for the Server and Network Storage organizations benchmarking NAS and SAN performance. Finally, Mr. Corbin served as the Architect for a terabyte Solid State Disk Array and as Architect for low-end NAS and SAN storage products.

Mr. Corbin has 27 years of C programming experience, 20 years of UNIX kernel development experience and 4 years of Java programming experience. Mr. Corbin holds numerous patents, was a member of the ANSI Standards Committee X3J11 C Programming Language, the LADDIS Consortium, and the SPEC SFS subcommittee. Mr. Corbin wrote the book entitled The Art of Distributed Computing (1991) and has given numerous presentations at industry conferences. Mr. Corbin was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso Computer Science Department where he taught computer networking and distributed computing courses. Mr. Corbin worked on the original SPEC SFS benchmark.