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Moshe Yanai is well known in the storage industry as the man who invented and led EMC Symmetrix and DMX systems development. After leaving EMC in 2001 he began working with 5 graduates of Talpiot. Talpiot is an elite Israeli academic program for the sciences, physics, and mathematics. The name came from the 14th year of the project (XIV=14 in Roman numerals). The XIV product (Nextra as it was then) itself was in development for 5 years. Nextra (XIV) was then bought by IBM on 31st December 2007. IBM then began to standardise the product for global distribution. Firstly the name “Nextra” is given up to XIV, the Supermicro SC8xx/SC9xx servers were replaced by IBM DS3200- like server enclosures with 12 HDD slots and all the minor components like power supplies, fans, Ethernet switches, UPS modules etc. were brought to IBM standards. The IBM XIV Storage System was distributed into the US early in 2008 but not being RoHs compliant changes were necessary for it to be officially launched in Europe in September 2008. This explains why Europe is only just catching up on it’s US rivals in terms of the number of machines sold of this new Storage Solution. To date : More than 50 patents filed (major architectural patent has already been approved
700 units have been shipped (as at 31/05/2009)
XIV is now used by 50% of top US 10 banks
XIV is now used by 30% of the Fortune 500
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