INFINIDAT was founded in 2011 by Moshe Yanai and focused on solving the problems storage buyers face when they are forced to choose between cost, capacity, functionality, reliability and performance. INFINIDAT enables you to have it all – today, and at a price you can afford.

Moshe Yanai

Moshe Yanai (Hebrew: משה ינאי‎; born 1949) is an Israeli electrical engineer. He is an inventor,[1] businessman, entrepreneur,[2] aviator (pilot),[3] investor,[2][4] and philanthropist.[5][6] He led the development of the EMC Symmetrix, the flagship product of EMC Corporation in the 1990s.

BiographyMoshe Yanai was born in 1949 in Israel, and earned a B.Sc. in electrical engineering in 1975 from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Yanai began his career building IBM-compatible mainframe data storage based on minicomputer disks for Elbit Systems (a joint project with Nixdorf Computer). He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf in the United States.

Yanai joined EMC in 1987, and managed the Symmetrix development, software and hardware, from its inception in the late 1980s[7] until shortly before leaving EMC in 2001.[8] His development team grew from several people, recruited among his former Israeli colleagues, to thousands, while he was holding the position of Vice President of EMC’s Symmetrix group.[7] The Symmetrix is the main reason for the rapid growth of EMC in the 1990s, both in size and value, from a company with a fading business of (minicomputer) computer memory boards, valued in several millions of dollars, to a hundreds-of-billions company.[9][10] Before leaving he became an EMC Fellow.[8]

Yanai funded[11] and led an Israeli storage startup company, XIV,[12] which was bought by IBM in January 2008 (IBM paid an estimated $300 million for a company invested in with an estimated $3 million).[11] Yanai continued leading XIV[13] and became an IBM Fellow.[14] IBM XIV Storage System became an IBM storage product.[15] Shortly later, in April 2008, IBM bought Diligent Technologies,[16] another storage company co-founded by Yanai.[4] He left IBM in 2010 .[2] In 2011 he founded INFINIDAT, a data storage company for the enterprise, high-end market. In April 2015, INFINIDAT announced a $150 million investment led by TPG Capital.[17] According to the Wall Street Journal, this investment placed INFINIDAT among the most valuable privately held companies in the world.[18]

Yanai is an inventor/co-inventor of about 40 US patents in the field of electronic data storage.

In June 2011 his Alma mater, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, awarded him the honor Distinguished Fellow of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and in 2012, conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate. He has been a board of directors member of several companies.