Storage Guru Randy Kerns Retired

Camberley Bates & The Futurum Group announced the retirement of one of the storage industry luminaries, Randy Kerns.

He was most recently senior strategist and analyst at Evaluator Group.

In the past, he served as VP of strategy and planning for storage at Sun Microsystems Inc., and covers storage and storage management software including SAN and NAS analysis.

He has been in the computer industry for over 30 years, involved in the development of storage products for both mainframe and open systems. His background is in product design and development.

His education includes 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.

He has worked for IBM and Fujitsu, as VP of engineering at the Array Technology subsidiary of Tandem Computers and as director of engineering for enterprise disk at Storage Technology Corporation.

He has been involved in product development of both disk and tape subsystems for those companies.

He was a frequent conference speaker and is the author of many industry articles and white papers.