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The MVPs in History of WW Storage Industry

2012 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award for Dr. Naoya Takahashi

Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Electronics Services Co., Ltd. (HES), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. announced that Dr. Naoya Takahashi, President and CEO of HES, has been named as the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award.

The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award was established in 1992 in honor of Reynold B. Johnson, a pioneer of magnetic disk technology. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to information storage systems based on their impact and historical significance to the evolution of computer storage systems.

mvps_of_the_ww_storage_industry After joining Hitachi, Ltd. in 1973, Takahashi contributed to the advancement of storage technologies through the development of architecture of storage systems and control instructions micro-codes. This award recognizes Takahashi’s contributions to technology innovation beginning with storage virtualization technology as well as his leadership in the growth of storage products from peripheral equipment for servers into a major business area in the IT market and the proliferation of storage systems technology on a global scale.
    
Specifically, in 1995, Takahashi commercialized for the first time in Japan, a disk storage equipment based on RAID technology compatible with the superior RAID-5, as an attachment for mainframes. In 2000, he developed a Hitachi original starnet architecture, which via a crossbar switch, connects data transmission paths between a ‘Channel Adapter’ control unit (connecting the storage and the server), a ‘Disk Adapter’ control unit (connecting the storage and the HDD) and the cache memory. The architecture achieved high scalability and significant performance enhancements. Furthermore, in 2004, he launched an enterprise disk array system, ‘Hitachi Universal Storage Platform’ which implements a storage controller to enable heterogeneous storage virtualization to be connected and operated as an integrated virtual single unit, dramatically raising efficiency.

As a result, not only were the scalability and reliability of storage systems enhanced but operation management costs could also be drastically cut. Over 18,000 units of Hitachi’s virtualization controllers have been shipped and are being used by a broad spectrum of customers including financial institutions worldwide.

I am greatly honored to be named as the recipient for the 2012 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award. I am also delighted with the recognition that this prestigious award bestows on Hitachi’s contributions to the development of the storage systems market worldwide and innovations in storage virtualization technology,” said, Dr. Naoya Takahashi, President & CEO, Hitachi Electronics Services Co., Ltd. “The achievements which this award recognizes could not have been realized without the long-term cooperation between users worldwide who shared invaluable comments and feedback, and the engineers and service representatives who listened and worked to incorporate those ideas into new products.  The Hitachi Group is committed to continue innovating technologies and products in order to contribute to the development of the world’s storage industry.

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The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award is
probably the most prestigious recompense in the worldwide data storage
industry. Reynold B. Johnson was heading the IBM's team that designed
the first HDD in 1956.

Which ones are missing
in the IEEE list published below?
We think about:

  • Jesse Aweida (StorageTek),
  • Georges Broussaud (Thomson CSF),
  • Michael R. Cannon (Maxtor),
  • Klaas Compaan and Pieter Kramer  (Philips)
  • Finis F. Conner (Conner Peripherals),
  • John F. Coyne (Western Digital)

  • Jerome Drexler
    (LaserCard)
  • Richard J. 'Dick' Egan and Michael C. Ruettgers, EMC,
  • Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg (2007 Physics Nobel Prize for GMR),
  • David Paul Gregg (Gauss Electrophysics),
  • Stanford R. Ovshinsky (Energy Conversion Devices),
  • James N. Porter (Disk/Trend),
  • Philip Rice (Stanford Research Institute),
  • Juan Rodriguez (Exabyte),
  • James Russell (Optical Recording Corp.), and
  • Daniel J. Warmenhoven (NetApp).

On the total of 41 people chosen by IEEE and by us, 73% are from USA, 20% from Europe and 7% from Asia. With six names (or 15%), IBM is the most represented company. No woman at all.

Complete list of the recipients
of IEEE Reynold B. Johnson
Information Storage Systems Award

  • 2012 - Dr. Naoya Takahashi, President and CEO of Hitachi Electronics
    Services Co., Ltd. - For advancement of storage technologies through the
    development of architecture of storage systems and control instructions
    micro-codes.
  • 2011 - Not awarded
  • 2010 - Moshe Yanai, IBM Fellow, IBM Corporation Waltham, MA, USA - For
    sustained innovation and legendary leadership in development of
    clustered global cache storage architectures and business continuity
    solutions that have defined the enterprise storage industry.
  • 2009 - Marshall Kirk MC Kusick, Independent Consultant Berkeley, CA, USA
    - For fundamental contributions in file system design, mentoring file
    system designers, and disseminating file system research.
  • 2008 - Alan J. Smith, Professor, University of California at Berkeley,
    Berkeley, CA, USA - For contributions to the performance analysis of
    computer storage systems, including improvements to disk caches,
    prefetching and data placement
  • 2007 - Dave Hitz, Executive VP and Co-Founder, Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA, and James
    Lau
    , Chief Strategy Officer, Executive VP, Co-Founder, Network
    Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA - For innovation in file system technology,
    leading to the development of network file server appliances.
  • 2006 - Jaisghankar M. Menon, Director of Storage Systems Architecture and Design, IBM, San Jose, CA -
    For pioneering work in the theory and application of RAID storage
    systems.
  • 2005 - François B. Dolivo, Manager, Pervasive Computing Group IBM Zurich
    Research Laboratory Ruschlikon, Switzerland - For the application of
    digital signal processing to the magnetic recording channel in hard disk
    drives.
  • 2004 - Bruca A. Gurney, Manager, Recording Head and Nanostructure
    Materials Group - Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA, and
    Virgil S. Speriosu, Retired, Dix Hills, NY - For key technical
    contributions to the development of spin valve giant magnetoresistive
    recording heads for computer data storage devices.
  • 2003 - H. Neal Bertram, Endowed Chair and Professor, Univ of
    California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA - For fundamental and pioneering
    contributions to magnetic recording physics research, applications and
    education.
  • 2002 - Chistopher H. Bajorek, Komag, Inc., San Jose, CA - For leadership
    in the development and manufacturing of magnetoresistive recording
    heads for data storage devices.
  • 2001 - Tu Chen, Komag, Incorporated, San Jose, CA - For leadership in
    the advancement of thin-film materials, tools, and processes used for
    magnetic information disks, and their commercialization as products.
  • 2000 - Mark H. Kryder, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA - For
    leadership in data storage research and education as founding director
    of the Carnegie-Mellon Magnetics Technology Center and Data Storage
    Systems Center.
  • 1999 - David A. Patterson and Randy A. Katz, University of California,
    Berkeley, CA, and Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University,
    Pittsburgh, PA - For the development of the Redundant Array of
    Inexpensive Disks systems.
  • 1998 - Jean-Pierre Lazzari, Silmag, St. Egreve, France - For
    contributions and key innovations in media and heads for magnetic disk
    drives.
  • 1997 - Alan F. Shugart, Seagate Technology, Scotts Valley, CA - For leadership in the evolution of disk drive technology.
  • 1996 - Notubake Imamura, Tosoh Corporation, Kanagawa-ken, Japan - For
    contributions to research, development, and commercialization of
    magneto-optic recording media and drive systems.
  • 1995 - James U. Lemke, Recording Physics, Inc., San Diego, CA - For
    contributions to advancing the science and technology of high density
    magnetic data storage.
  • 1994 - Denis Mee, IBM Corp., San Jose, CA - For contributions to the
    design of optical, magneto-optical, and magnetic recording files.
  • 1993 - John M. Harker, IBM Labs., San Jose, CA - For leadership in the
    development of information storage devices, including key contributions
    to the design of many generations of magnetic disk files.

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