Moshe Yanai is the founder/inventor of XIV who happend to have invented EMC Symmetrix as well.....read on.
Moshe Yanai comes from EMC where he invented Symmetrix arrays ten or more years ago, becoming Symmetrix VP of engineering for ten years, as well as an EMC Fellow and reporting directly to CEO Joe Tucci. He owns several patents for Symmetrix technology and today's DMX4 arrays still use that technology. He left EMC, 'was ousted publicly' according to IBM senior storage consultant Tony Pearson, in 2001. After that he co-founded de-duplication company Diligent with Doron Kempel, and then founded XIV in Israel. Yanai is still a director at Diligent.
EMC bought the Data General Clariion disk operation when it realised that mid-range arrays were needed alongside the top-end Symmetrix. Yanai reportedly opposed this purchase.
Now IBM owns XIV and competes with major competitiors like EMC, Hitachi and Netapp...Concept is very interesting where there is no raid involved but the usable capacity is half of raw capacity that makes the array with raid 1/0 but IBM denies this theory. Recently I've had the opportunity to play with this toy in iTech seminar in Vancouver and I must confess, GUI looks really cool. Volume creation took only 4 clicks. overall storage management seems much more simpler that even a highschool kid can manage XIV.
Now IBM owns XIV and competes with major competitiors like EMC, Hitachi and Netapp...Concept is very interesting where there is no raid involved but the usable capacity is half of raw capacity that makes the array with raid 1/0 but IBM denies this theory. Recently I've had the opportunity to play with this toy in iTech seminar in Vancouver and I must confess, GUI looks really cool. Volume creation took only 4 clicks. overall storage management seems much more simpler that even a highschool kid can manage XIV.
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