Jaishankar Menon

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Jaishankar Menon (born August 9, 1956) is a pioneer of RAID technology.

Menon was born in Kerala, India. After receiving a degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1977, he earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science at the Ohio State University.

In 1982, Menon began his career in San Jose, California with IBM's research team. He earned praise early on for his work in developing RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology. He is well-known as a pioneer in RAID Research and as a key early contributor and creator of a pervasive technology that is used in almost all computer storage systems and is now a $20B industry. He has written 23 RAID papers and holds 27 RAID patents and has had practical influence on RAID products from IBM and others in the industry. Jai went on to become responsible for all world-wide Research in storage systems in IBM and established IBM Almaden Research as a world-class center of competence in RAID and Storage Research, very influential in IBM and well-respected externally.

In addition to his key influence on the RAID industry, Jai has made several other important contributions. He initiated one of the first storage virtualization projects in the industry which lead to the creation of the industry's leading product in storage virtualization called the IBM SAN Volume Controller. As a result, IBM is recognized as a leader in storage virtualization. He co-authored the seminal paper on the design and architecture of cached disk controllers, now used routinely in every disk controller in the industry. His technical work was instrumental in IBM's ability to keep mainframes competitive by allowing it to use industry standard disk drives, rather than special purpose disk drives. Jai and his projects have been written up in many press articles, including a piece in the Economist in 2003.

He is a member of IBM's Academy of Technology, which only has 300 people in a company of 300,000. He holds 50 U.S Patents and, in addition, has eleven patent applications on file with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is an IBM Master Inventor. He has received numerous IBM technical awards. In 2001, Jai earned the elite status of IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical honor; only 65 other active employees have achieved this rank.

Currently, Jai sets technical direction for thousands of IBM developers in IBM's Systems and Technology Group as CTO and Vice Presdent of Architecture and Strategy for Server Software and Storage. He is both an IBM Vice President and an IBM Fellow, one of the less than ten active employees to IBM to achieve both distinctions.

[edit] Awards and accomplishments

  • IBM Fellow as of 2001.
  • IEEE Fellow.
  • Holds 50 US patents along with 11 patent applications.
  • Winner of the prestigious 2002 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award. Previous winners are Tim-Berners Lee (the inventor of the Internet) and Gordon Moore (famous for Moore's Law).
  • Winner of the 2006 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Systems Award.
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award from Ohio State University, College of Engineering, 2004.
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 2006.
  • Contributing Author to 3 books on database and storage systems
  • 31 Refereed papers, 47 technical papers
  • IBM Corporate Award for RAID, 2000
  • Member, IBM Academy of Technology
  • IBM Master Inventor
  • Best paper award, HICSS-25
  • Seventeen IBM Patent Plateau Awards

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