Founding engineer and author of several IO and Network industry standards that have dramatically simplified the way virtualized data centers operate, Recio is a 2011 IBM Fellow—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He has served as IBM's System Networking CTO, specializing in System I/O and Network Architecture, Strategy, and Standards. He joined IBM in 1982, and from 1998 onward played a leadership role in the strategy, architecture, and design of future IBM system IO and Networks. Recio was responsible for cross-IBM Data Center and Virtual Switch Networking product strategy and roadmap.
He is a founding engineer and author of several IO and Network industry standards, including InfiniBand (cluster network), iWARP (Remote Direct Memory Access, RDMA, over TCP/IP), PCI IO Virtualization, Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), Fibre Channel over CEE, and IEEE 802.1Qbg Ethernet Virtual Bridging. He was a driving force behind the 802.1Qbg standards, yet another of his numerous contributions to important industry standards that dramatically simplified the way virtualized data centers operate.
Recio also created and chaired IBM's I/O Technical Community (IOTC), which served the networking, education, and support needs of over 750 IBM IO and networking professionals. He received 4 external, professional awards for his contributions to the industry, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to the Server IO field. He filed 187 patents, of which over 100 had already been issued.
He published dozens of refereed technical conference papers in venues such as IEEE and ACM. Recio created and chaired the IEEE Data Center Converged and Virtual Ethernet Switching (DC CAVES) workshops.
