About the Authors
Paul C. Zikopoulos, B.A., M.B.A., is the vice president of Technical Professionals for IBM Software Group’s Information Management division and additionally leads the World Wide Competitive Database and Big Data Technical Sales Acceleration teams. Paul is an award-winning writer and speaker with more than 20 years of experience in information management. Paul is seen as a global expert in Big Data and database. Independent groups often recognize Paul as a thought leader in Big Data, with nominations to SAP’s “Top 50 Big Data Twitter Influencers,” Big Data Republic’s “Most Influential,” and Onalytica’s “Top 100” lists. Technopedia listed him as “A Big Data Expert to Follow” and he was consulted on the topic of Big Data by the popular TV show “60 Minutes.” Paul has written more than 350 magazine articles and 18 books, some of which include Hadoop for Dummies; Harness the Power of Big Data: The IBM Big Data Platform; Understanding Big Data; Warp Speed, Time Travel, Big Data, and More: DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows New Features; DB2 pureScale: Risk Free Agile Scaling; DB2 Certification for Dummies; and DB2 for Dummies. In his spare time, Paul enjoys all sorts of sporting activities, including running with his dog Chachi, avoiding punches during MMA training, eating Aamer’s herd of Scottish Galloway cattle, and trying to figure out the world according to Chloë—his daughter. You can reach him at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @BigData_paulz.
Sam Lightstone, B.Sc. Eng. (Electrical), M. Math (Comp. Sci.), is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and DB2 business intelligence architect for next-generation data analytics. He helped to originate the BLU Acceleration technology in DB2 10.5. He is also the founder and past chair of the IEEE Data Engineering Workgroup on self-managing database systems. Sam is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and an IBM Master Inventor with over 45 patents and patents pending. He is the author of several books, including the widely cited text Database Modeling and Design and the critically acclaimed career guide Making It Big in Software.
Matt Huras, B.A. Sc. (Comp. Eng.), M. Eng., is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and senior architect for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Matt’s areas of expertise include data management, index management, locking, concurrency, and other protocols. Matt has been with IBM for 29 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in applied science from the University of Waterloo and a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Toronto. Matt’s most recent project was DB2 pureScale, a new feature that is focused on delivering new levels of scalability and availability.
Aamer Sachedina, B. Eng, P. Eng., is an IBM Distinguished Engineer at the IBM Toronto Lab. Over the years, he’s contributed to the design of the DB2 kernel, was the architect of DB2’s Automatic Storage, and most recently headed the active-active availability effort in DB2 pureScale. Aamer is currently DB2’s chief kernel architect. In addition, some of Aamer’s other passionate interests include breeding and maintaining a herd of Scottish Galloway cattle at his hobby farm with his lovely wife Jen and their two boys, Hayden and Julian.
George Baklarz, B. Math, M. Sc., Ph.D. Eng., has spent 29 years at IBM working on various aspects of database technology. From 1987 to 1991, he worked on SQL/DS as part of the product planning department, system test team, performance team, and application development group. In 1991, George was part of the team that helped move the OS/2 ES database to Toronto to become part of the DB2 distributed family of products. Since that time, he has worked on vendor enablement, competitive analysis, product marketing, product planning, and technical sales support. George has a doctorate in computer engineering, which took him only 13 years to get; the engineering faculty didn’t like the fact that he worked at IBM, believing that part-time students would never finish their degree if they had to work for a living! George is currently the manager of the Worldwide DB2 Technical Sales team.
About the Technical Editor
Roman B. Melnyk, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., is a senior member of the DB2 Information Development team. Roman co-authored Hadoop for Dummies; DB2 Version 8: The Official Guide; DB2: The Complete Reference; DB2 Fundamentals Certification for Dummies; and DB2 for Dummies. Roman also edited Harness the Power of Big Data: The IBM Big Data Platform; Warp Speed, Time Travel, Big Data, and More: DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows New Features; and Apache Derby – Off to the Races.
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