Moshe Yanai

Moshe Yanai (; born 1949) is an Israeli electrical engineer. He is an inventor, investor, and philanthropist. He led the development of the EMC Symmetrix, the flagship product of EMC Corporation in the 1990s, which prevented, to some extent, financial chaos in New York Stock Exchange and certain banks after the September 11 attacks.

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. until shortly before leaving EMC in 2001. His development team grew from several people, recruited among his former Israeli colleagues, to thousands, while he was vice president. Before leaving Yanai became an EMC Fellow. The Symmetrix network storage scalability made it the father of current cloud storage, essential in mamy avenues of online and big data technologies. The role of Yanai's contribution was described by 2001 ESG report by : ”the person most responsible for architecting the single most successful product in subsystem history (Symmetrix) has been Moshe Yanai". which was bought by IBM in January 2008. IBM paid an estimated $300 million for a company invested in with an estimated $3 million. Shortly later, in April 2008, IBM also bought Diligent Technologies. and became an IBM Fellow, while IBM XIV Storage System became an IBM storage product. Yanai left IBM in 2010.

INFINIDAT In 2011, Yanai founded Infinidat, a computer data storage company. In 2011, Infinidat announced Moshe became its CEO. In April 2015, Infinidat announced a $150 million investment led by TPG Capital. He also has been a board of directors member of several companies. For example only, two patents granted to EMC and invented by Yanai etal are:

US 5,390,313 granted February 14, 1995, titled "Data storage with data mirroring and reduced access time data retrieval". US 5,544,347 granted August 6, 1996, titled " Data storage controlled remote data mirroring with respectively maintained data indices".

Awards and recognition EMC Fellow – 2001 IBM Fellow – 2008. IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award – 2010, awarded "for sustained innovation and legendary leadership in development of clustered global cache storage architectures and business continuity solutions that have defined the enterprise storage industry". Distinguished Fellow of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology – 2011. The Technion is Yanai's Alma mater. Honorary Doctorate, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology – 2012