Abstract

This presentation by Dr. Jai Menon, IBM Fellow and Dell CTO Emeritus will discuss emerging trends for compute, storage, and network data center infrastructures as they evolve and incorporate new disruptive technologies to better meet your business needs. The pros and cons of both on-premise and cloud infrastructures will be discussed. Dr. Menon will take us on a journey to learn the lessons from the past and prepare us for the coming future when a new generation of application-centric composable infrastructures that deliver agility, scalability, low-cost and operational efficiency will become available.

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Bio

Dr. Jai Menon has served as CTO for multi-billion dollar Systems businesses (Servers, Storage, Networking) at both IBM and Dell. Jai was an IBM Fellow, IBM’s highest technical honor, and one of the early pioneers who helped create the technology behind what is now a $20B RAID industry. He impacted every significant IBM RAID product between 1990 & 2010, and he co-invented one of the earliest RAID-6 codes in the industry called EVENODD. He was also the leader of the team that created the industry’s first, and still the most successful, storage virtualization product. When he left IBM, Jai was Chief Technology Officer for Systems Group, responsible for guiding 15,000 developers. In 2012, he joined Dell as VP and CTO for Dell Enterprise Solutions Group. In 2013, he became Head of Research and Chief Research Officer for Dell. Jai holds 53 patents, has published 82 papers, and is contributing author to three books on database and storage systems. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IBM Master Inventor, he is a Distinguished Alumnus of both IIT, Madras and Ohio State University, and he is a recipient of the IEEE Wallace McDowell Award and the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Systems Award. He serves on several university, customer and company advisory boards.