Moshe Yanai

Moshe Yanai (Hebrew: משה ינאי‎; born 1948 in Israel) is an Israeli electrical engineer (B.Sc., 1975, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology). He is also a technologist and inventor,^[1] businessman, entrepreneur,^[2] aviator (pilot),^[3] investor,^[2][4] multi-millionaire, and philanthropist.^[5][6] He is especially well known for leading the development of the EMC Symmetrix, the flagship product of EMC Corporation, probably the most successful computer storage system until today.^[7][8][9]

Biography

Mr. Yanai began his career in the 1970s, building IBM-compatible mainframe storage based on minicomputer disks for Elbit Systems (a joint project with Nixdorf Computer). He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf in the United States. Yanai joined EMC in 1987, and managed the Symmetrix development, software and hardware, from its inception in the late 1980s^[10] until shortly before leaving EMC in 2001.^[11] His development team grew from several people, recruited among his former Israeli colleagues, to thousands, while he was holding the position of Vice President of EMC's Symmetrix group.^[10] The Symmetrix is the main reason for the rapid growth of EMC in the 1990s, both in size and value, from a company with a fading business of (minicomputer) computer memory boards, valued in the low hundreds of millions of dollars, to a tens of billions company.^[12] Before leaving he became an EMC Fellow.^[11]

He later funded^[13] and led an Israeli Cloud computing storage startup company, XIV,^[14] which was bought by IBM in January 2008 (IBM paid an estimated $300 million for a company invested in with an estimated $3 million).^[13] Moshe Yanai continued leading XIV^[15] and became an IBM Fellow.^[16] IBM XIV Storage System has become part of IBM's storage products portfolio.^[17] Shortly later, in April 2008, IBM bought Diligent Technologies,^[18] another storage company co-founded by Yanai.^[4] He left IBM in 2010 amid disagreement with IBM on the ways to advance the XIV product.^[2] In June 2011 his Alma mater awarded him the honor Distinguished Fellow of the Technion.^[19]

He has been a board of directors member of several companies^[10].

Awards

• EMC Fellow - 2001.^[11]
• IBM Fellow - 2008.^[16]
• IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award - 2010.^[20]
• Technion Distinguished Fellow - 2011.^[19]

References

1. ^ Moshe Yanai's patents at prior-ip.com Retrieved 5-27-2011.
2. ^ ^{a b c} "ינאי נתן, ינאי לקח - Yanai gave, Yanai took" Calcalist, September 7, 2010 (In Hebrew; for a printer friendly version click here; for an English version use, e.g., Google Web-page translation). Retrieved 11-11-2010.
3. ^ "הג'וב החדש של משה ינאי: יטיס אנשי עסקים במסוק - The new job of Moshe Yanai: Will fly businessmen by helicopter" TheMarker, September 2, 2010 (in Hebrew; for a printer friendly version click here; for an English version use, e.g., Google Web-page translation). Retrieved 11-13-2010.
4. ^ ^{a b} "EMC transfers its R&D to Diligent" HA'ARETZ, November 12, 2002 (for a printer friendly version click here). Retrieved 11-13-2010.
5. ^ "Mr Nice Guy" TechnionFOCUS, October 2010. Retrieved 12-16-2010.
6. ^ "New bird research fund to take flight next week" The Jerusalem Post 11/29/2010.
7. ^ "Worldwide Disk Storage Market Grew 7% in Q3 - Gartner" METRIX2.0 - Business & Market Intelligence, December 2006, See EMC's market share. Retrieved 11-16-2010.
8. ^ "IBM and HP tied for second place behind EMC in external storage sales for the first three months of 2007" abcNEWS/Technology, June 7, 2007. Retrieved 11-16-2010.
9. ^ EMC Company Web site, October 19, 2010 "EMC Reports Record Revenue and 58% Profit Growth" See Symmetrix results. Retrieved 11-16-2010.
10. ^ ^{a b c} Axxana board of directors See Moshe Yanai. Retrieved 2-26-2011.
11. ^ ^{a b c} EMC Company Web site, November 29, 2001: "EMC Strengthens Operational Alignment" See paragraph about Moshe Yanai. Retrieved 10-24-2010.
12. ^ EMC Company Web site, July 19, 2000: "EMC Reports 43% Growth in Storage Revenue, First $2 Billion Quarter" Retrieved 10-24-2010.
13. ^ ^{a b} "Why did IBM buy XIV? IBM's XIV Purchase background", TecWorld, January 4, 2008. Retrieved 11-11-2010.
14. ^ XIV Storage Web site Retrieved 11-11-2010.
15. ^ XIV Storage Web site: about Retrieved 2-26-2011.
16. ^ ^{a b} IBM Company Web site: IBM Fellow Moshe Yanai, Retrieved 11-11-2010.
17. ^ IBM Company Web site: IBM XIV Storage System Retrieved 3-1-2011.
18. ^ IBM Company Web site: Press release 18 April, 2008 IBM Acquires Storage Company Diligent Technologies Retrieved 3-1-2011.
19. ^ ^{a b} Moshe Yanai - Distinguished Fellow of the Technion technionlive.blogspot.com/2011/07. Retrieved 9-24-2011
20. ^ IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award - 2010 to Moshe Yanai Retrieved 12-16-2010.

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