About the Technical Reviewer

Kevin Closson is a Technology Director and Performance Architect in the Data Computing Division of EMC. From 2007 through 2011, Kevin was a Performance Architect in Oracle Corporation's Exadata development organization within the Server Technology Group. His 25 year career focus has been system and software performance engineering and architecture, competitive benchmarking, support, and application development on high-end SMP and Clustered Unix and Linux platforms. His work prior to Oracle at HP/PolyServe, Veritas, and IBM/Sequent was focused on scalability and availability enhancements of the Oracle server and platforms that support it. His Oracle port-level work led to his U.S. patents in SMP/NUMA locking and database caching methods (6389513, 6480918). Kevin maintains a very popular technology blog at kevinclosson.wordpress.com.