Howard Young
Howard O Young
American Inventor, Entrepreneur, and Technology Executive based in Dothan, Alabama.
Founder & Managing Director of Howard Young Tech. Holding 6 US patents in storage virtualization and Fibre Channel systems.
🏛️ About & Background
Howard Young has over 40 years of engineering and leadership experience spanning embedded systems, enterprise storage architectures, cloud infrastructure, and compiler design. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.
His career began with guidance system firmware for aerospace applications at Litton Guidance and Control Systems, advancing through enterprise SAN virtualization platforms at Troika Networks, ClknGo Software, and LSI/QLogic, petabyte-scale cloud storage architectures at Zadara, and enterprise technology consulting at Howard Young Tech.
💡 US Patents (Storage Technology & Fibre Channel)
Young holds six US Patents issued between 2012 and 2013:
| Patent No. | Title | Issue Year | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| US 8,504,766 | Cut-through cache management for a mirrored virtual volume | 2013 | High-performance cache synchronization |
| US 8,489,940 | Managing asynchronous dependent I/O for a virtual Fibre Channel target | 2013 | Asynchronous I/O scheduling & targets |
| US 8,261,003 | Managing expanded capacity of virtual volumes in a storage system | 2012 | Online volume capacity expansion |
| US 8,255,634 | Look-ahead virtual volume meta-data processing in a storage controller | 2012 | Predictive metadata pre-fetching |
| US 8,176,218 | Real-time routing of received commands in a split-path architecture | 2012 | Split data/control plane command routing |
| US 8,155,518 | Dynamic load balancing of Fibre Channel traffic | 2012 | Multi-port HBA dynamic load balancing |
🛠️ Core Technical Domains
- Enterprise Storage & Networking: Storage Area Networks (SAN), Fibre Channel HBAs, Virtual Private Storage Arrays (VPSA), Multi-Cloud Hydrations.
- Systems & Firmware: Low-level micro-kernels, bootstrap loaders, embedded systems (PowerPC 603, VAX 11/780), Linux kernel I/O optimization.
- Languages & Compilers: C/C++, Assembly, Ada 83, JOVIAL, Modula-2, Fortran compiler development.
- Cloud & Knowledge Systems: Cloud architecture (AWS), DevOps/CI-CD, Knowledge Graph Machine IDs (KGMID), Schema.org / JSON-LD semantic data integration.
📚 Selected Publications & Media
- InfoWorld: "Best practices for migrating data to the cloud" (Quantitative analysis of multi-petabyte cloud migration & AWS Snowball vs network transfer).
- Data Center Knowledge: "Simplifying Complex Cloud Hydrations" (Sequential mirroring for zero-downtime migrations).
- Zadara Summit: Presented on VPSA Performance Tuning, Cloud Storage Selection Criteria, and Latency-Free Docker Storage.
- Tech Tip Tuesdays: Host of 38+ technical webisodes on cloud storage architectures for Zadara.
🌐 Official Web Properties & Verified Profiles
| Channel | Link | Verification / Notes |
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| Root Canonical Domain | howardyoung.co | Canonical Entity Origin (#person) |
| Corporate Website | howardyoung.tech | Howard Young Tech |
| GitLab Pages Site | howardyoung.gitlab.io | Official GitLab Pages Profile |
| linkedin.com/in/howardy | Verified Profile (howardy) |
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| GitHub | github.com/howardyoung | Verified Profile (@howardyoung) |
| GitLab | gitlab.com/howardyoung | Verified Profile (@howardyoung) |
| X (Twitter) | x.com/howard_o_young | Handle @howard_o_young |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-2022-5666 | Academic & Researcher Persistent ID |
| Crunchbase | howard-young-2 | Executive & Entrepreneur Profile |
| Wikidata | Q141169170 | Open Knowledge Graph Machine Entity |
| about.me | about.me/howardyoung | Executive Landing Page |
| YouTube | youtube.com/@howardyoung | Personal Channel |