I am a Technology Director and Performance Architect in the Data Computing Division of EMC focused on the Data Computing Appliance (a DW/BI/Big Data Analytics appliance based on the Greenplum database). That’s my “day job.” I also specialize in Oracle platform technology. One cannot be an Oracle expert in EMC without adding value on behalf of our (EMC and Oracle) shared customers so I find myself active in a lot of initiatives spanning organizational lines.
Short BIO
From 2007 through 2011, Kevin was a Performance Architect in Oracle Corporation’s Server Technology Group Exadata development organization. His 25 year career has included Performance Engineering, Software Architecture, Competitive Benchmarking, Support, and Application Development on high-end SMP and Clustered platforms. His work prior to Oracle at HP/PolyServe, Veritas and IBM/Sequent was focused on throughput, scalability and availability of the Oracle server. His Oracle port-level work at Sequent led to his U.S. patents in SMP/NUMA locking and database caching methods (6389513, 6480918).
Kevin speaks frequently at industry conferences and is a member of The OakTable Network. In addition to book collaborations, his written works have appeared in Oracle Magazine, Oracle Internals Magazine, IBM Redbooks and SELECT.
This Blog
This blog is called “Kevin Closson’s Blog: Platforms, Databases and Storage.” I blog about a wide array of topics that should be of interest to data center professionals interested in:
- Symmetrical Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) Data Analytics platform technology such as Greenplum
- Oracle Exadata Database Machine
- Oracle on Intel and AMD based NUMA Servers and NUMA in general
- Oracle on Linux
- Oracle Internals Topics Relating to Storage, I/O, Concurrency, IPC and other platform-level topics
- Clustering
- Storage Architecture
- Real Application Clusters
- General Oracle Internals Topics
- High Availability
Kevin,
I used to work for Sequent using Oracle on NUMA-Q and now work for Oracle (ex-Siebel) so very interested to see your blog appear.
BTW – excellent choice of blogging platform (and theme).
Andy
Thanks, Andy. I wonder if we ever met? Maybe in Weybridge? I hope my content is worth your time. Always a pleasure to bump into Sequent alumni :-0
Hi Kevin,
Just wanted to let you know that I am enjoy and learning quite a bit from your blog in the short time I have been reading it. Tom Kyte mentioned one of your blogs a week or so ago. I have a lot of respect for Tom and have learned SO much from him. When Tom gives praise to someone else, and suggests a visit to their site, I feel obliged to to so. He was right once again.
Keep up the great work,
Glenn
Kevin,
Perhaps you may know where Ian Johnson (ex Sequent) can be found these days…?
have you tried LinkedIn? There are a lot of ex-SQNT alumni there…