Randy Watson

Randy Watson

Capacity and Performance Analysis Expert
Fortra
 

Randy Watson is a capacity and performance analysis expert and offers consulting services around the Performance Navigator software. Before teaming up with Fortra, Randy was President and Co-Founder of Midrange Performance Group, Inc. (MPG) before Fortra acquired the company in August 2018.

He has been working in the IT industry for nearly 50 years, focusing primarily on performance and capacity planning. The last two decades have been spent helping IBM, IBM business partners, and customers manage and analyze performance and capacity on the Power Systems platform for IBM i, AIX, VIOS, and Linux, having most recently added analyzing AI/ML Power environments by monitory GPU metrics. Randy graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1972.