Jaishankar Menon

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Jaishankar Menon (Kerala, India, August 9, 1956) is an IBM employee who contributed to RAID technology.

Menon received 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, he joined IBM's research team in San Jose, California, where he developed RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology. He has written 23 RAID papers and holds 27 RAID patents. Jai went on to become responsible for all world-wide Research in storage systems in IBM^{[citation needed]}. He initiated the IBM SAN Volume Controller. He co-authored a paper on the design and architecture of cached disk controllers, now used routinely in every disk controller in the industry^{[citation needed]}.

He holds 50 U.S Patents. In 2001, Jai was named an IBM Fellow, and is a member of IBM's Academy of Technology.

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IBM Fellow as of 2001.
IEEE Fellow.
Winner of the 2002 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award.
2006 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award.
Distinguished Alumnus Award from Ohio State University, College of Engineering, 2004.
Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 2006.
IBM Corporate Award for RAID, 2000
Member, IBM Academy of Technology
IBM Master Inventor
Seventeen IBM Patent Plateau Awards