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While earning his B.A. in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, Josh began working with distributed systems and was part of the Network of Workstations (NOW) Group and Millennium Project. In 1998, he was a member of the three-man team that broke the world record in parallel sorting on a 16-node Intel-based cluster, beating out teams from IBM and Compaq, among others. He subsequently researched high-performance disk and network I/O with ACM Turing Award-winner Jim Gray at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center. After graduation from UC Berkeley, Josh then spent a year at Inktomi Corporation developing their network caching software.

In 1999 Josh founded Scale Eight, which developed scalable storage software technologies. In 2000 Scale Eight built the world’s largest online storage system consisting of over 200 Terabytes of geographically mirrored storage supported by a network that actually managed over a gigabit of WAN traffic. Scale Eight’s customers included Microsoft, Viacom and Fujitsu.

In 2001 Josh was named one of the Top Ten Entrepreneurs by Red Herring. In 2002 MIT Technology Review included him in the Top 100 Innovators based on a peer selection process.

Scale Eight closed operations in early 2003. Josh then moved on to the Internet Archive, a non-profit corporation dedicated to archiving the World Wide Web and preserving digital media. Josh directed engineering and operations at the Internet Archive and built out their new Petabyte data center in San Francisco.

Josh now works in Utah at his his latest technology startup, Berkeley Data Systems which offers a free, automatic, secure online backup service. It's available at Mozy.com.

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