Harry M. Yudenfriend

Developer of a roadmap enabling consistent data growth, performance improvements, enhanced resilience, continuous availability, increased scale, and improved efficiency at IBM, Yudenfriend was named an IBM Fellow in 2008 and has served in the Systems and Technology Group, Poughkeepsie, New York. As the lead Technologist for IBM System z I/O, he developed and implemented that roadmap, improving server/storage synergy and increasing the scale and intelligent management of devices attached to IBM System z.

He is an inventor of HyperSwap and Dynamic I/O Reconfiguration Management for continuous availability, HyperPAV for improved efficiency and simplification, and extended addressability volumes for increased scale, all of which added to the total of 90 patents issued or pending to his name. Yudenfriend joined IBM in 1980, and in 2001 he was named an IBM Master Inventor; by that time he had achieved his 33rd invention plateau.

Included in the publications with which he has been associated are: "An architecture for storage-hosted application extensions," IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 52 Issue 4, 2008; and IBM System z I/O Discovery and Autoconfiguration, IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 56, Issue 1.2, February 2012. He has also been affiliated with IBM System z I/O Discovery and Autoconfiguration.

From 1976–1980, Yudenfriend attended Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science in New York City, and holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science.