Jay Ranade, is a bestselling computer book author

Author

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 and information technology

Information technology

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 (IT) management consultant, and also a World Power Breaking

Breaking (martial arts)

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 Champion.

Ranade's first computer book was VSAM: Concepts, Programming, and Design. It is widely regarded as the definitive volume on Virtual storage access method

Virtual storage access method

Virtual storage access method an IBM disk file storage access method, first used in the OS/VS1, OS/VS2 Release 1 and Release 2 operating systems, later used throughout the Multiple Virtual Storage architecture and now in z/OS...

 (VSAM), a data management system introduced by IBM

IBM

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 in the 1970s. The success of this book lead to Ranade being named editor in chief

Editor in chief

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 for the J. Ranade IBM Series of books, by McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill

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 which cover most mainframe computer

Mainframe computer

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 topics.

He has written and published more than 35 IT-related books on various subjects like networks, security, operating system

Operating system

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s, languages, and systems. He has written and published articles for various computer magazine

Magazine

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s such as Byte

Byte (magazine)

BYTE magazine was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage...

, LAN Magazine, and Enterprise Systems Journal. The New York Times critically acclaimed his book The Best of Byte.

Jay Ranade now leads "Risk Management Professionals International" and is an adjunct professor at New York University and St John's University in New York City.