Richie Lary is a Compaq Fellow and was an engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq from 1969 to 2000. Richie was an architect of Digital's VAX computer family in the 1970s. He joined Digital's storage business in 1978, where he was a key architect and designer of the Digital Storage Architecture and its associated products. He became Digital's storage architect in 1990, technical director of Digital's Storage Business Unit in 1997, and technical director of Compaq's Storage Products Division in 1998. Richie holds 25 patents for his work in processor and storage system architecture and design, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Server I/O Conference in January 2000 in recognition of his contributions. Since June 2000, he has been an independent consultant in the storage industry and a partner in IN-fusion, LLC. |