About the Authors

Syed Jaffar Hussain has over 20 years of I.T. experience that includes more than 14 years of production Oracle database administration. Oracle has honored him with the prestigious Oracle ACE Director role and named him DBA of the Year for 2011, both for his excellent knowledge and for contributions to the Oracle community. He is an Oracle Certified Master (OCM) for Oracle Database 10g-a status granted only after passing extensive challenges in a hands-on environment. He is also an Oracle Database 10g RAC Certified Expert. Syed Jaffar is coauthor of Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Essentials (Packt Publishing, 2011), and he blogs regularly at http://jaffardba.blogspot.com. He is a frequent speaker, has presented at various Oracle conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld, and has delivered many technical Oracle-oriented webinars. Also, he actively participates in most of the social networking sites: you can follow him on twitter/facebook/linkedin on sjaffarhussain id, and he can be reached at [email protected].

Tariq Farooq is an Oracle technologist/architect/problem-solver and has been working with various Oracle technologies for 20+ years in very complex environments at some of the world’s largest organizations. He is the founding President of the IOUG Virtualization & Cloud Computing Special Interest Group. He is an active community leader/organizer, speaker, author, forum contributor, and blogger. He is the founder of www.BrainSurface.com, a social networking & IT collaboration site with thousands of signed-up users from the various Oracle communities. Tariq founded, organized, and chaired various conferences, including VirtaThon, the largest online-only conference for the various Oracle domains; the CloudaThon & RACaThon series of conferences; and the first-ever Oracle-centric conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011. He was the founder and anchor/show host of the VirtaThon Internet Radio series program. Tariq is an Oracle RAC Certified Expert, holds a total of 14 professional Oracle certifications, and is the author of 100+ articles, whitepapers, and other publications. Tariq has presented and spoken at almost every major Oracle conference/event all over the world, including Oracle OpenWorld, COLLABORATE, BrainSurface, VirtaThon, IOUG, OOUG, OUGLC, TCOUG, UKOUG, The OTNExpert+ Conference, and others. Tariq has been awarded the Oracle ACE and ACE Director awards from 2010 to 2013.

Riyaj Shamsudeen is an industry-recognized RAC expert, database internals specialist, and performance tuning specialist with 20 years of experience in implementing, using, and tuning RAC and Oracle products. He is an Oracle ACE Director and proud member of the OakTable network. Riyaj has coauthored four books about Oracle Database and performance. He is an active blogger (at http://orainternals.wordpress.com), President of OraInternals, and frequent international speaker in major conferences such as UKOUG, HOTSOS, OpenWorld, and RMOUG. Social: www.linkedin.com/in/riyajshamsudeen; @riyajshamsudeen.

Kai Yu is a Senior Principal Engineer and technologist in Dell’s Oracle Solutions Engineering Lab specializing in Oracle RAC, Oracle Virtualization, and Cloud. With 18+ years of experience working on Oracle technology, he has implemented and managed many large, mission-critical Oracle RAC databases, including those in his tenure with an IT organization having more than 2,000 RAC databases. Kai is a well-known author of technical articles and a frequent international speaker at Oracle conferences in 16 countries such as OpenWorld, Collaborate, UKOUG, EMEA OUG Harmony, Norway OUG, OTN Asia/Pacific tour, and Latin America tours. He has also keynoted at Oracle Architect Day. Kai has served IOUG’s Oracle RAC SIG as president, and in two chair positions. He has served the IOUG collaborate conference committee, as well as managing IOUG’s RAC boot camp, HA boot camp, and Enterprise Manager 12c deep dive. He was awarded the Oracle ACE Director title in 2010, given the Oracle ACE Spotlight in 2011 by Oracle Technology Network (OTN), and named the 2011 OAUG Innovator of Year Award by the Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG). In 2012, Oracle Magazine awarded him the Oracle Excellence Award: Technologist of the Year: Cloud Architect. Kai has been active in sharing his Oracle knowledge on his Oracle blog at http://kyuoracleblog.wordpress.com/.