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Randy Kerns is the chief technology officer
for Prostor Systems in Boulder
Colorado. In his role as
Chief Technology Officer, Randy drives the company's strategic
direction for products and technology. As an industry veteran and former
storage industry analyst, Mr. Kerns has spent over 30 years in the computer
industry helping storage companies design and develop storage system
products for their markets as well as advising technical professionals on
how to build the best storage infrastructures to streamline their
business processes.
Prior to joining ProStor Systems, Mr. Kerns served as an
independent industry analyst covering storage and storage management
software including SAN and NAS analysis. As a senior partner with the
Evaluator Group, he was responsible for product analysis and company
evaluation. While there, he became recognized in the storage industry
for assisting major end-user clients in developing their storage
strategies as well as supporting storage system vendors with their
product and technology roadmaps.
Mr. Kerns spent many years in executive level product planning
and design positions. He was vice president of storage strategy and
planning at Sun Microsystems; he developed disk and tape systems for
mainframe attachment at IBM and Storage Tek; he designed disk systems
for attachment to open systems and proprietary computer platforms at
Fujitsu and Tandem Computers; and he developed tape and disk systems
for two start-up companies.
Mr. Kerns earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the
University of Missouri at Rolla and a master's degree in
engineering computer science from the University of Colorado.
An educator and presenter, Mr. Kerns has written numerous industry
articles and papers and is the author of Planning a storage
strategy, a new book that offers step-by-step guidance on how to
build an information storage strategy as part of a larger business
process and most recently is the author of Information Archiving -
Economics and Compliance, which is the first book of its kind to
explore archiving of information in depth. Mr. Kerns has regularly
taught classes on storage technology in the United States and Europe.
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