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70-597: Parallan Computer was founded in July 1986 in Mountain View, California , by Gianluca Rattazzi, Charlie Bass , and William Patton. Rattazzi, Parallan's principal founder and president, was previously the manager for Olivetti 's personal computing division. Bass had founded Ungermann-Bass , a computer networking company, in 1977; he was named Parallan's chairman . Patton was formerly the CEO of Management Assistance, Inc. ,

140-641: A Roman Catholic secondary school ; German International School of Silicon Valley (GISSV), a PK-12 German-English bilingual international school; and Yew Chung International School of Silicon Valley , a PK-8 Chinese-English bilingual international school. Mountain View has one central public library, the Mountain View Public Library, which has video, music, books, and access to the Internet. The library provides outreach services through

210-569: A warm-summer Mediterranean climate ( Köppen climate classification Csb : dry-summer subtropical). Summers are warm and dry, while winters are cool and wet. However, both summers and winters are somewhat moderated due to its relative proximity to the Pacific, although it has a lesser maritime influence than San Francisco further north on the peninsula. Mountain View is one of the major cities that make up Silicon Valley , and has many notable Silicon Valley companies either headquartered there or with

280-462: A SAN-NAS hybrid, offering both file-level protocols (NAS) and block-level protocols (SAN) from the same system. A shared disk file system can also be run on top of a SAN to provide filesystem services. In the early 1980s, the " Newcastle Connection " by Brian Randell and his colleagues at Newcastle University demonstrated and developed remote file access across a set of UNIX machines. Novell 's NetWare server operating system and NCP protocol

350-636: A circuit for preaching, going by horseback to Half-Moon Bay and McCarthysville for services. Later that year, Seligman Weilheimer and his brother Samuel immigrated from Dossenheim, Baden, Germany . They settled on the next plot, and in 1856 built the first big general merchandise store in the settlement. William Bubb bought 80 acres (32 ha) to farm in October 1851; he became a leader in town and died there in 1864. His heirs' descendants prospered, marrying into other pioneer families. The U.S. Navy's adjacent 1,000-acre (4.0 km ) Moffett Field Complex

420-449: A female householder with no husband present, 1,253 (3.9%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 1,928 (6.0%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 280 (0.9%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 10,961 households (34.3%) were made up of individuals, and 2,471 (7.7%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31. There were 17,515 families (54.8% of all households);

490-470: A few. In 2009, NAS vendors (notably CTERA networks and Netgear ) began to introduce online backup solutions integrated in their NAS appliances, for online disaster recovery. By 2021, three major types of NAS solutions are offered (all with hybrid cloud models where data can be stored both on-premise on the NAS and off site on a separate NAS or through a public cloud service provider). The first type of NAS

560-726: A large presence. As of 2024, major tech companies such as Google and Intuit were headquartered in Mountain View. In 2018, the comparison site CareerBliss ranked the city number 1 in the United States on its list of Happiest Cities to Work for 2018. After voting to increase the minimum wage incrementally in 2015, in December 2017, the Mountain View City Council implemented a mandatory $ 15 minimum wage, to apply to employees who work two or more hours

630-482: A list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under the federal Superfund program. The sites were formerly used by companies including Fairchild Semiconductor , Intel , Raytheon , CTS Printex Inc., Spectra-Physics, Jasco Chemical, GTE and Teledyne . These seven sites make up a portion of the 22 NPL sites in Santa Clara County, which are included in

700-519: A long-term lease to it and other technology companies. As of 2014, those leases generate over $ 5 million per year in city revenue. The Castro Street downtown area also benefited from a special tax district. In 2016, the city's voters approved a rent control ordinance. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 12.236 square miles (31.69 km ), of which 11.958 square miles (30.97 km )

770-459: A male population of 52.2 percent. Persons under five were 6.4 percent, persons under 18 were 20.3 percent, and persons aged 65 and older were 11.1 percent in 2020. In 2022, 5.4 percent of people in Mountain View were living below the poverty line. Of the citizens over the age of sixteen, 72.9 percent were employed in the labor force, while 27.1 percent were not. As of the 2010 census , there were 74,066 people, _ households, and _ families residing in

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840-662: A number of Council Advisory Bodies Archived October 8, 2019, at the Wayback Machine , which provide input on a range of city matters pertaining to development, land use and historical preservation. The Mountain View Fire Department maintains five stations, and is responsible for fire protection and emergency medical services. The Mountain View Police Department maintains patrol, traffic enforcement, detective, K9 and SWAT services for

910-482: A pioneering mini - and microcomputer company. Parallan was founded to specialize in a class of servers known as application servers , designing their machines with multiple microprocessors to ensure high availability . The company targeted their products at large corporations such as airliners and banks, whose computer backbones usually consisted of mainframes and large local area networks comprising IBM Personal Computers and compatible systems . The company

980-527: A president at a competing server manufacturer. Parallan and IBM formally terminated their partnership by late 1994. Though Parallan had $ 36 million in cash reserves in the aftermath of the IBM partnership, the company ceased to be a manufacturing concern and had very little backstock of products. In December 1994, the company announced the acquisition of Meridian Data, Inc., of Scotts Valley, California , for $ 19 million in cash. Founded in 1986, Meridian Data

1050-486: A single drive can be recovered completely via the redundancy encoded across the RAID set. If a drive spends several seconds executing extensive retries it might cause the RAID controller to flag the drive as "down" whereas if it simply replied promptly that the block of data had a checksum error, the RAID controller would use the redundant data on the other drives to correct the error and continue without any problem. A NAS unit

1120-622: A single protocol. The key difference between direct-attached storage (DAS) and NAS is that DAS is simply an extension to an existing server and is not necessarily networked. As the name suggests, DAS typically is connected via a USB or Thunderbolt enabled cable. NAS is designed as an easy and self-contained solution for sharing files over the network. Both DAS and NAS can potentially increase availability of data by using RAID or clustering . Both NAS and DAS can have various amount of cache memory , which greatly affects performance. When comparing use of NAS with use of local (non-networked) DAS,

1190-402: A technology often used in NAS implementations. For example, some NAS versions of drives support a command extension to allow extended error recovery to be disabled. In a non-RAID application, it may be important for a disk drive to go to great lengths to successfully read a problematic storage block, even if it takes several seconds. In an appropriately configured RAID array, a single bad block on

1260-449: A time-limited cachable capability for clients to access the storage objects. A file access from the client to the disks has the following sequence: A clustered NAS is a NAS that is using a distributed file system running simultaneously on multiple servers. The key difference between a clustered and traditional NAS is the ability to distribute (e.g. stripe) data and metadata across the cluster nodes or storage devices. Clustered NAS, like

1330-471: A web browser. They can run from a virtual machine , Live CD , bootable USB flash drive ( Live USB ), or from one of the mounted hard drives. They run Samba (an SMB daemon), NFS daemon, and FTP daemons which are freely available for those operating systems. Network-attached secure disks ( NASD ) is 1997–2001 research project of Carnegie Mellon University , with the goal of providing cost-effective scalable storage bandwidth . NASD reduces

1400-576: A week. At the start of 2018, Mountain View raised its minimum wage to $ 15. Starting on January 1, 2019, the minimum wage was to be "adjusted annually based on the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose regional Consumer Price Index." A proposal to slow down the rate of the wage increases by a year was defeated in a City Council meeting on December 4, 2018. Subsequently, on December 30, 2018, it was announced that Mountain View's minimum wage would rise to $ 15.65 on January 1, 2019, with

1470-434: Is a computer connected to a network that provides only file-based data storage services to other devices on the network. Although it may technically be possible to run other software on a NAS unit, it is usually not designed to be a general-purpose server. For example, NAS units usually do not have a keyboard or display, and are controlled and configured over the network, often using a browser. A full-featured operating system

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1540-563: Is focused on consumer needs with lower-cost options that typically support 1–5 hot plug hard drives. The second is focused on small-to-medium-sized businesses – these NAS solutions range from 2–24+ hard drives and are typically offered in tower or rackmount form factors. Pricing can vary greatly depending on the processor, components, and overall features supported. The last type is geared toward enterprises or large businesses and are offered with more advanced software capabilities. NAS solutions are typically sold without hard drives installed to allow

1610-430: Is focused solely on data storage but capabilities can be available based on specific vendor options. NAS provides both storage and a file system . This is often contrasted with SAN ( storage area network ), which provides only block-based storage and leaves file system concerns on the "client" side. SAN protocols include Fibre Channel , iSCSI , ATA over Ethernet (AoE) and HyperSCSI . One way to loosely conceptualize

1680-569: Is land and 0.278 square miles (0.72 km ) (2.26%) is water. The city borders Palo Alto and the San Francisco Bay to the north, Los Altos to the south, and Moffett Federal Airfield and Sunnyvale to the east. Mountain View is located in the south-eastern and south-western section of the San Francisco Peninsula, at the north end of State Route 85 , where it meets U.S. Route 101 . State Route 82 follows

1750-475: Is not needed on a NAS device, so often a stripped-down operating system is used. NAS systems contain one or more hard disk drives, often arranged into logical, redundant storage containers or RAID . NAS uses file-based protocols such as NFS (popular on UNIX systems), SMB ( Server Message Block ) (used with Microsoft Windows systems), AFP (used with Apple Macintosh computers), or NCP (used with OES and Novell NetWare ). NAS units rarely limit clients to

1820-760: Is the consumer market where there is a large amount of multi-media data. Such consumer market appliances are now commonly available. Unlike their rackmounted counterparts, they are generally packaged in smaller form factors. The price of NAS appliances has fallen sharply in recent years, offering flexible network-based storage to the home consumer market for little more than the cost of a regular USB or FireWire external hard disk. Many of these home consumer devices are built around ARM , x86 or MIPS processors running an embedded Linux operating system . Open-source NAS-oriented distributions of Linux and FreeBSD are available. These are designed to be easy to set up on commodity PC hardware, and are typically configured using

1890-527: Is the transit center for the city, connecting the public commuter rail, light rail, bus, and private shuttle systems. It is one of the busiest transit centers in the county, behind Milpitas, Palo Alto and San Jose. Mountain View is served by the Caltrain commuter rail system, which runs from San Francisco to Gilroy . The two Caltrain stations in the city are the Mountain View Station and

1960-527: The 23rd Assembly District , represented by Democrat Marc Berman . In the United States House of Representatives , Mountain View is in California's 16th congressional district , represented by Democrat Anna Eshoo . Mountain View is represented by a 7-member council elected at-large. The mayor is a council member appointed by their peers each year. The City Council maintains

2030-581: The Mercury News reported that Mountain View had seen RVs and recreational vehicles become the choice of residence for many working poor in the city. The city's communications coordinator called it a "new" situation, noting that many of the residents living in RVs were working up to three jobs, and that affordable housing was hard to come by in the city. In December 2017, Google received approval to build nearly 10,000 new units of housing near its future campus in

2100-972: The Mountain View-Whisman School District . Springer Elementary, although located within the borders of Mountain View, is governed by the Los Altos School District . The public high schools are governed by the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District and consist of Alta Vista High School , Mountain View High School , and Los Altos High School . Mountain View High and Los Altos High each contain approximately 50% Los Altos residents and 50% Mountain View residents. Some Mountain View residents attend Almond Elementary and Egan Junior High in

2170-678: The PS/2 Server 195 and 295—single- and dual-CPU versions of the Server 290, respectively. Industry analysts initially remarked that IBM's stake in Parallan—later increased to 12 percent—had saved Parallan from the brink of collapse, as they had a $ 14.4 million deficit at the time. The partnership even compelled Parallan to file to go public , in February 1993. However, the partnership had made Parallan's revenues totally dependent on

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2240-502: The San Antonio Station . Caltrain provides all classes of service in Mountain View, with Baby Bullet trains stopping at the main downtown station. Network-attached storage Network-attached storage ( NAS ) is a file-level (as opposed to block-level storage ) computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients. The term "NAS" can refer to both

2310-657: The Diablo Range to the south-east, form the Santa Clara Valley . Most of Mountain View consists of residential neighborhoods. Business parks are located mostly in the North Shoreline neighborhood, north of Highway 101. The Blossom Valley neighborhood comprises five smaller neighborhoods: Springer Meadows, Varsity Park, Blossom Valley Estates, Springer Trees, and Gest Ranch subdivision known as Miramonte Oaks which borders Los Altos. This would be one of

2380-646: The Los Altos School District. Mountain View taxed a large portion of its most valuable commercial and industrial properties in the Shoreline Regional Park Community at very low relative levels, and until the creation of a joint-powers agreement (JPA) in 2006, none of those property taxes reached the local schools. After the creation of the JPA, the Shoreline Regional Park Community shared less than $ 1 million per year with

2450-736: The NAS market. The acquisition was finalized in September 1999, Quantum continuing to market the Snap Server for several years. Mountain View, California Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County , California , United States , part of the San Francisco Bay Area . Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains , the population was 82,376 at the 2020 census . Mountain View

2520-519: The PS/2 Servers, which did not fare very well, owing to market conflict with IBM's higher-end mainstream PS/2 models and PowerPC -based RS/6000 offerings and poor marketing. Parallan's revenue constricted roughly $ 2 million between the second and third fiscal quarters of 1993, and by April 1994, the deal between the two companies had reportedly fallen through. "Unfortunately for Parallan, IBM loves their partners to death", remarked John Dunkle,

2590-488: The Santa Cruz Mountains and the shores of the southern San Francisco Bay once supported multiple villages of the indigenous Ohlone people . Spanish missionaries utilized the land for sheep pastures. The Mexican land grant of Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas was given in 1842 by Alta California Governor Juan Alvarado to Francisco Estrada. This grant was later passed on to Mariano Castro, who sold half of

2660-797: The Windows SMB and the UNIX NFS protocols and had superior scalability and ease of deployment. This started the market for proprietary NAS devices now led by NetApp and EMC Celerra. Starting in the early 2000s, a series of startups emerged offering alternative solutions to single filer solutions in the form of clustered NAS – Spinnaker Networks (acquired by NetApp in February 2004), Exanet (acquired by Dell in February 2010), Gluster (acquired by RedHat in 2011), ONStor (acquired by LSI in 2009), IBRIX (acquired by HP ), Isilon (acquired by EMC – November 2010), PolyServe (acquired by HP in 2007), and Panasas , to name

2730-419: The age of 18 living with them, 40.0% were married couples living together, 7.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 49.1% were non-families. 35.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.97. In the city, the population was spread out, with 18.0% under

2800-462: The age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 43.4% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 106.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 106.9 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 69,362, and the median income for a family was $ 80,379. Males had a median income of $ 64,585 versus $ 44,358 for females. The per capita income for

2870-652: The average family size was 3.01. The population was spread out, with 14,594 people (19.7%) under the age of 18, 5,401 people (7.3%) aged 18 to 24, 28,577 people (38.6%) aged 25 to 44, 17,647 people (23.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 7,846 people (10.6%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.5 males. There were 33,881 housing units at an average density of 2,760.6 units per square mile (1,065.9 units/km ), of which 13,332 (41.7%) were owner-occupied, and 18,625 (58.3%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate

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2940-591: The bookmobile and S.O.S. volunteer program to those in Mountain View who are unable to come to the main branch. The building was built in 1997. The second floor of the library has a special collection in a room devoted to the history of Mountain View, which features a portrait of Crisanto Castro, for whom the major downtown thoroughfare is named. Displayed outside the library is a piece of the Berlin Wall , installed in 2013. The Downtown Mountain View Station

3010-480: The buyer (or IT departments) to select the hard drive cost, size, and quality. The way manufacturers make NAS devices can be classified into three types: NAS is useful for more than just general centralized storage provided to client computers in environments with large amounts of data. NAS can enable simpler and lower cost systems such as load-balancing and fault-tolerant email and web server systems by providing storage services. The potential emerging market for NAS

3080-412: The city was $ 39,693. About 3.6% of families and 6.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 7.2% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over. Mountain View has a council-manager government system. An executive city manager is in charge of several departments, while the city council, supported by several boards, commissions, and committees, is the legislature responsible for

3150-649: The city was the base of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now the NASA Ames Research Center), which had a strong influence on the development of aerospace and electronics industries. Today, high technology is the foundation of the local economy. Few remnants are visible of the city's agricultural past. In 1990, Kevin Duggan began his position as city manager. He built a relationship with Google, Inc., and issued

3220-591: The city, and participates in several task forces, including the Regional Allied Computer Crime Task Force (REACT) and the Regional Auto Theft Task Force (RAATF). Mountain View is served by a mix of public and private schools. The public elementary (Bubb, Castro, Imai, Landels, Mistral , Monta Loma , Stevenson, Theuerkauf, and Vargas) and middle schools (Crittenden and Graham) are governed by

3290-590: The city. As of the 2000 census , there were 70,708 people, 31,242 households, and 15,902 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,263.7/km (5,863/sq mi). There were 32,432 housing units at an average density of 1,038.3/km (2,689/sq mi). The racial makeup of the city was 63.77% White , 20.67% Asian , 18.26% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2.53% African American , 0.39% Native American , 0.26% Pacific Islander , 8.32% from other races , and 4.07% from two or more races. There were 31,242 households, out of which 23.3% had children under

3360-411: The city. The population density was 6,174.6 inhabitants per square mile (2,384.0/km ). There were 34,136 housing units. 145 (0.2%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 120 (0.2%) were institutionalized. There were 31,957 households, out of which 8,731 (27.3%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 13,806 (43.2%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 2,456 (7.7%) had

3430-495: The difference between a NAS and a SAN is that NAS appears to the client OS (operating system) as a file server (the client can map network drives to shares on that server) whereas a disk available through a SAN still appears to the client OS as a disk, visible in disk and volume management utilities (along with client's local disks), and available to be formatted with a file system and mounted . Despite their differences, SAN and NAS are not mutually exclusive and may be combined as

3500-462: The elementary and high school districts. In 2008, a citizen-supported parcel tax, largely aimed at reducing class sizes, was renewed in an overwhelmingly positive vote. The current ratio of students to full-time-equivalent teachers in the Mountain View public elementary schools is 20.4 : 1. Notable private schools in Mountain View include: Khan Lab School , a laboratory school associated with Khan Academy ; Saint Francis High School ,

3570-489: The high-performance server market, which netted less than $ 50 million in sales that year. In April 1992, IBM announced that they had signed a deal with Parallan for exclusive rights to market, distribute, and sell Parallan's Server 290—a dual i486 machine built into a large, RS/6000 —later in the year, in exchange for a 10-percent stake in Parallan for ten years. IBM's rebranded Parallan servers were eventually realized as

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3640-525: The increase delayed by one year for companies with 25 or fewer employees. As of January 2024, the minimum wage in Mountain View is $ 18.75 per hour. According to the city's 2023 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, the largest employers in the city are: Due to its history as a center for semiconductor manufacturing, Mountain View has seven sites on the Environmental Protection Agency 's Final National Priorities List (NPL),

3710-512: The land to Martin Murphy Jr. Eventually, the former land grant was developed as the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale . The southwest shore of San Francisco Bay was settled by European-Americans in 1852 as a stagecoach station. This was after the United States acquired California. By the early 1900s, it was a shipping point for fruit and grain, as well as a center of religious book publishing. The early pioneers were commonly buried at

3780-602: The mid-1990s, NAS devices began gaining popularity as a convenient method of sharing files among multiple computers, as well as to remove the responsibility of file serving from other servers on the network; by doing so, a NAS can provide faster data access, easier administration, and simpler configuration as opposed to using general-purpose server to serve files. Accompanying a NAS are purpose-built hard disk drives , which are functionally similar to non-NAS drives but may have different firmware, vibration tolerance, or power dissipation to make them more suitable for use in RAID arrays,

3850-471: The more exclusive areas, this development was built in 1963 to about 1965. The other neighborhood's ranch-style housing were built in the 1950s and 1960s on orchard land. The Cuernavaca neighborhood is located off Crestview Drive near the Sunnyvale border. This neighborhood used to be the location of a cherry orchard, and later a nine-hole golf course and swim club before it was turned into housing, which

3920-514: The old cemetery between Mercy & Church, off Castro Street. This is now the site of the present city library and park, known as Pioneer Park. Reverend Henry Merrill Henderson, born in Maryland, arrived here at age 35 with his family in 1852; he was meeting relatives: the Ricketts and others who had migrated from Missouri and Kentucky . He was the first Baptist minister in town. He soon rode

3990-404: The ordinances of the city code. The executive in turn enforces the code and promulgates administrative regulations to execute it. The city clerk and attorney perform supporting roles. The Community Development Department is the agency responsible for planning and zoning. In the state legislature , Mountain View is in the 13th Senate District , represented by Democrat Josh Becker , and in

4060-479: The overhead on the file server (file manager) by allowing storage devices to transfer data directly to clients . Most of the file manager's work is offloaded to the storage disk without integrating the file system policy into the disk. Most client operations like Read/Write go directly to the disks; less frequent operations like authentication go to the file manager. Disks transfer variable-length objects instead of fixed-size blocks to clients. The File Manager provides

4130-508: The performance of NAS depends mainly on the speed of and congestion on the network. NAS is generally not as customizable in terms of hardware (CPU, memory, storage components) or low level software (extensions, plug-ins , additional protocols) but most NAS solutions will include the option to install a wide array of software applications to allow better configuration of the system or to include other capabilities outside of storage (like video surveillance, virtualization, media, etc). DAS typically

4200-510: The route of the historic El Camino Real through Mountain View. The city is bounded to the north by the Bay , northeast by Palo Alto , to the south and southwest by Los Altos , and to the east by Sunnyvale and Moffett Federal Airfield . The Santa Cruz Mountains , the origin of the city's name, lie to the west. This range separates Mountain View from the Pacific Ocean and, together with

4270-468: The success of file servers from Novell, IBM , and Sun, several firms developed dedicated file servers. While 3Com was among the first firms to build a dedicated NAS for desktop operating systems, Auspex Systems was one of the first to develop a dedicated NFS server for use in the UNIX market. A group of Auspex engineers split away in the early 1990s to create the integrated NetApp FAS , which supported both

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4340-696: The technology and systems involved, or a specialized device built for such functionality (as unlike tangentially related technologies such as local area networks , a NAS device is often a singular unit). A NAS device is optimised for serving files either by its hardware, software, or configuration. It is often manufactured as a computer appliance  – a purpose-built specialized computer. NAS systems are networked appliances that contain one or more storage drives , often arranged into logical , redundant storage containers or RAID . Network-attached storage typically provide access to files using network file sharing protocols such as NFS , SMB , or AFP . From

4410-597: The total of 94 sites in California. As of the 2020 census , there were 82,376 people and 34,423 households, and 19,585 families residing in the city. The population density was 6,888.8 inhabitants per square mile (2,659.8/km ) There were 37,295 housing units. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Mountain View had an unemployment rate of 5.0% in August 2013. It had a female population of 47.8 percent and

4480-495: Was 1.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.4%. 32,002 people (43.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units, and 41,799 people (56.4%) lived in rental housing units. According to the Santa Clara County Homeless Census and Survey, the number of homeless individuals in Mountain View increased 51% from 2015 to 2017, with 276 homeless individuals in 2015, and 416 in 2017. In August 2017,

4550-692: Was a pioneer of the CD-ROM format who had marketed a wide range of CD-ROM storage devices and servers in the early 1990s. Parallan assumed the Meridian Data name and merged operations, moving their headquarters to Scotts Valley accordingly. In 1996, the combined Parallan and Meridian Data began pivoting to hard drive–based network-attached storage (NAS) devices, introducing their flagship Snap! Server in 1998. In May 1999, Quantum Corporation of Milpitas, California , announced their acquisition of Meridian Data for $ 85 million, allowing Quantum to enter

4620-711: Was able to accrue US$ 12 million in venture capital in the first four years of its foundation. Its initial range of servers cost between $ 50,000 and $ 250,000 and made use of Intel 's i486 processors as well as custom ASICs , allowing certain software to send packets of data through 64-bit-wide data paths, allowing for greater throughput . Parallan's ASICs specifically supported IBM's OS/2 , their new general-purpose operating system, and LAN Manager , OS/2's networking counterpart. Parallan's servers were additionally based on IBM's proprietary Micro Channel bus architecture. The company posted roughly $ 10 million in sales in 1991, representing 20 percent of total sales in

4690-484: Was completed in 1989. Most of the housing in Cuernavaca is Spanish-style, with red tiled roofs. The Monta Loma neighborhood is located between the bounds of San Antonio Road, Middlefield Road, Rengstorff Avenue and Central Expressway. Currently Monta Loma houses a collection of California-style mid-century modern houses by Joseph Eichler , John Calder Mackay , and Mardell Building Company. Mountain View has

4760-431: Was constructed beginning after 1931; its development attracted many workers and it brought many economic opportunities. After World War II , the population grew significantly with the development of regional aerospace and electronics industries. Between 1950 and 1960, the population grew from 6,563 to 30,889, an increase of 370.7%. Between 1929 and 1994, Moffett Field Naval Air Station operated in Mountain View. In 1940,

4830-698: Was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley , and is the location of many high technology companies. In 1956, William Shockley established Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, the first company to develop silicon semiconductor devices in Silicon Valley. Mountain View houses the headquarters of many of the world's largest technology companies, including Google and Alphabet Inc. , Unicode Consortium , Intuit , NASA Ames Research Center, and former or existing headquarters for Microsoft , Symantec , 23andMe , LinkedIn , Samsung , Quora and Synopsys . The fertile land between

4900-590: Was released in 1983. Following the Newcastle Connection, Sun Microsystems ' 1984 release of NFS allowed network servers to share their storage space with networked clients. 3Com and Microsoft would develop the LAN Manager software and protocol to further this new market. 3Com 's 3Server and 3+Share software was the first purpose-built server (including proprietary hardware, software, and multiple disks) for open systems servers. Inspired by

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