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I'm CTO at Southbank Software - creators of dbKoda (dbKoda.com) and ProvenDB (provenDB.com).

I'm the author of

* MongoDB Performance Tuning

* Next Generation Databases

* Oracle Performance Survival Guide

* MySql Stored Procedure Programming

* Oracle SQL High Performance Tuning

* Oracle Desk Reference

I’ve also contributed to several other books on database technology. I write a monthly column at Database Trends and Applications and more occasional articles elsewhere.

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Tariq Farooq is an Oracle technologist who has been working with various Oracle technologies in very complex environments at some of the world’s largest organizations for over 25 years. He is the founder and CEO of BrainSurface, a social networking & IT collaboration website with thousands of members in multiple Oracle communities. At BrainSurface, Tariq anchored the VirtaThon Internet Radio series program and organized three different conference series, including VirtaThon (the largest online-only conference for the multiple Oracle domains), CloudaThon and RACaThon.

Tariq organized a variety of Oracle conferences including the OTN Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Tour, and the first ever Oracle-centric conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011. An award winning speaker, Tariq has presented at almost every major Oracle conference worldwide, including Oracle OpenWorld, COLLABORATE, IOUG, OOUG, OUGLC, TCOUG, UKOUG, and the OTNExpert+ Conference. Tariq was also the Founding President of the IOUG Virtualization & Cloud Computing Special Interest Group.

Tariq is an Oracle RAC Certified Expert, holds a total of 14 professional Oracle Certifications and is the author of 100+ articles and white papers. Tariq is the co-author of the Expert Oracle RAC 12c, Building DB Clouds in Oracle 12c, Oracle Database Problem Solving and Troubleshooting Handbook, and Oracle Exadata Expert's Handbook.

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Nitin Vengurlekar is the co-founder and CTO of Viscosity North America, a leader in virtualization, Oracle Engineered Systems, Private Database Cloud and RAC implementations. At Viscosity Nitin is responsible for partner relationship and end-2-end solution deployment.

Prior to joining Viscosity, Nitin worked for Oracle for more than 17 years, mostly in the Real Application Cluster (RAC) engineering group, with main emphasis on ASM/storage, and RAC integration. The last three years , at Oracle, was the spent as Database Cloud Architect/Evangelist in the Oracle’s Cloud Strategy Group in charge of Private Database Cloud messaging.

Nitin is a well-known Oracle technologist and speaker in the areas of Oracle Storage, high availability, Oracle RAC, and private database cloud. He is the author of Database Cloud Storage, Oracle Automatic Storage Management and the Data Guard Handbook and has written many papers on storage, database internals, database tuning, and served as a contributor to Oracle documentation as well as Oracle education material.

With more than 25 years of IT experience, including OS390 Systems Programming, Storage Administration, System and Database Administration, Nitin is a seasoned systems architect who has successfully assisted numerous customers in deploying highly available Oracle systems.

Follow me on Twitter -> @dbcloudshifu

Viscosity North America specializes in helping customers maximize their Oracle and VMWare/OVM investments. We specialize in Oracle on virtualization platforms and Oracle RAC. We have a world-class organization that excels in Exadata Consolidation Deployment, Tuning and Exadata Patching.

Charles Kim is an Oracle ACE Director, VMware vExpert, Oracle Certified DBA, Certified Exadata Implementation Specialist, Certified SharePlex Administrator, and a Certified RAC Expert. Charles specializes in RAC, Exadata, Cloud, and Virtualization and author of 10 books:

1. Oracle Database 11g New Features for DBA and Developers

2. Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs

3. Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook

4. Virtualize Oracle Business Critical Databases

5. Oracle ASM 12c Pocket Reference Guide

6. Oracle Exadata Expert's Handbook

7. Virtualizing Hadoop: How to Install, Deploy, and Optimize Hadoop in a Virtualized Architecture (VMware Press Technology)

8. Solaris and Linux Recipes for DBAs

9. Oracle Cloud Pocket Solutions Guide

10. PDB Me To Oracle Cloud

Charles holds certifications in Oracle, VMware, Red Hat Linux, and Microsoft and has over 26 years of Oracle experience on mission and business critical databases. Charles presents regularly at local, regional, national and international Oracle conferences including IOUG Collaborate, RMOUG, VMware World, and Oracle OpenWorld on topics of RAC, ASM, Linux Best Practices, Data Guard Best Practices, VMware Best Practices, Oracle on VMware virtualization, and 7×24 High Availability Considerations.

Charles is the Founder and President of Viscosity North America (http://www.viscosityna.com), a niche Oracle consulting company specializing in Exadata, Performance Tuning, Virtualization and Oracle Cloud. Charles is also the President of the Cloud SIG for the Independent Oracle User Group.

Charles blogs regularly at http://DBAExpert.com/blog website.

His linkedin profile is: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chkim