Abstract: In 11gR2 release of the database, Oracle has added several new features into the clustering arena. The features have further improved availability, scalability manageability of RAC databases making it even more robust environment. This presentation will discuss and highlight some of the key new features in the areas of Architecture, availability, scalability, manageability and performance that pertain to a RAC implementation.

Speaker: Murali Vallath has more than 22 years of IT experience including over 16 years using Oracle products. Vallath is an Oracle ACE and an Oracle Certified Database Administrator. He has worked on a variety of database platforms for small to very large implementations, designing databases for high volume, machine critical, real time OLTP systems. His expertise is with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Vallath released his second book titled Oracle 10g RAC, Grid, Services & Clustering in March 2006 and has co-authored his third book titled "Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)" (November 2007, Oracle Press).

Vallath currently provides independent consulting services in the areas of capacity planning, high availability solutions and performance tuning of Oracle environments through Summersky Enterprises with operations in USA and India. He has successfully completed over 100 successful small-, medium- and terabyte-sized RAC implementations for reputed corporate firms. He blogs at mvallath.wordpress.com.

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