Moshe Yanai

Moshe Yanai (Hebrew: משה ינאי‎; born 1949) is an Israeli electrical engineer. He is an inventor,[1] businessman, entrepreneur,[2] aviator (pilot),[3] investor,[2][4] and philanthropist.[5][6] He led the development of the EMC Symmetrix, the flagship product of EMC Corporation in the 1990s.

Biography

Moshe Yanai was born in 1949 in Israel, and earned a B.Sc. in electrical engineering in 1975 from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Yanai began his career building IBM-compatible mainframe data 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[7] until shortly before leaving EMC in 2001.[8] 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.[7] 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 several millions of dollars, to a hundreds-of-billions company.[9][10] Before leaving he became an EMC Fellow.[8]

Yanai funded[11] and led an Israeli storage startup company, XIV,[12] which was bought by IBM in January 2008 (IBM paid an estimated $300 million for a company invested in with an estimated $3 million).[11] Yanai continued leading XIV[13] and became an IBM Fellow.[14] IBM XIV Storage System became an IBM storage product.[15] Shortly later, in April 2008, IBM bought Diligent Technologies,[16] another storage company co-founded by Yanai.[4] He left IBM in 2010 .[2] In 2011 he founded INFINIDAT, a data storage company for the enterprise, high-end market. In April 2015, INFINIDAT announced a $150 million investment led by TPG Capital.[17] According to the Wall Street Journal, this investment placed INFINIDAT among the most valuable privately held companies in the world.[18]

Yanai is an inventor/co-inventor of about 40 US patents in the field of electronic data storage.

In June 2011 his Alma mater, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, awarded him the honor Distinguished Fellow of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and in 2012, conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate. He has been a board of directors member of several companies.[7]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Moshe Yanai's patents at prior-ip.com Retrieved 5-27-2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "ינאי נתן, ינאי לקח - Yanai gave, Yanai took" Calcalist, September 7, 2010 (In Hebrew; a printer friendly version 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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 Axxana board of directors See Moshe Yanai. Retrieved 2-26-2011.
  8. 1 2 3 EMC Company Web site, November 29, 2001: "EMC Strengthens Operational Alignment" See paragraph about Moshe Yanai. Retrieved 10-24-2010.
  9. ↑ EMC Company Web site, July 19, 2000: "EMC Reports 43% Growth in Storage Revenue, First $2 Billion Quarter" Retrieved 10-24-2010.
  10. ↑ EMC Corp. at Yahoo Stock - Historical Prices Retrieved 04-30-2015.
  11. 1 2 "Why did IBM buy XIV? IBM's XIV Purchase background", TecWorld, January 4, 2008. Retrieved 11-11-2010.
  12. ↑ XIV Storage Web site Retrieved 11-11-2010.
  13. ↑ XIV Storage Web site: about Retrieved 2-26-2011.
  14. 1 2 IBM Company Web site: IBM Fellow Moshe Yanai, Retrieved 11-11-2010.
  15. ↑ IBM Company Web site: IBM XIV Storage System Retrieved 3-1-2011.
  16. ↑ IBM Company Web site: Press release 18 April 2008 IBM Acquires Storage Company Diligent Technologies Retrieved 3-1-2011.
  17. ↑ INFINIDAT Website, April 30, 2015: a $150 million investment "Infinidat Announces $150 Million Investment Led by TPG, Eclipses $1B Valuation" Retrieved 04-30-2015.
  18. ↑ Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2015: "Data Storage Startup Infinidat Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation" Retrieved 04-30-2015.
  19. ↑ IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award - 2010 to Moshe Yanai Retrieved 12-16-2010.
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