Porus Homi Havewala - Oracle Database Cloud Cookbook with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control

Porus Homi Havewala works as the Strategic Program Advisor in the Enterprise Architecture office (ASEAN) at Oracle Corporation Singapore and is a regional Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Oracle Enterprise Manager Technology, specifically concentrating on private database cloud capabilities on Oracle systems. He is a double Oracle Certified Master (OCM) in 10g and 11g , as well as the first Oracle employee ACE in Singapore. He was awarded the prestigious Oracle ACE Director title in 2008. There are less than 200 Oracle ACE Directors in the entire world and Porus was the very first Oracle ACE and ACE Director in Singaporerecognition of his outstanding achievements in the Oracle world.

Porus has had extensive experience in Oracle technology since 1994; this includes work as a Senior Production DBA, Principal Database Consultant, Database Architect, E-Business Technical DBA, Development DBA, and Database Designer and Modeler (using Oracle Designer). He has published 13 technical articles and 3 white papers on Oracle Enterprise Manager on OTN, and his work has been featured on the most popular OTN article list. The OTN is the worlds largest community of developers, DBAs, and architects.

Porus created http://enterprise-manager.blogspot.com , one of the worlds first blogs dedicated to Enterprise Manager. He is also the creator and manager of the Oracle Senior DBA group on LinkedIn.com , with more than 58,000 members.

Porus is the sole author of the 2010 book Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control (Rampant TechPress). He is also the sole author of the 2012 book Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos (PACKT Publishing).

He started in the IT industry in the mid-1980s as a Turbo-C programmer in India and then as a dBase/FoxPro Developer in Australia. In 1994 he wrote a book on Microsoft FoxPro 2.5/2.6, which was his first published technical work, from Wordware Publishing. He entered the heady world of Oracle technology in 1994 as an Oracle DBA/developer (using Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, and Oracle Designer) in multiple-client companies.

In the largest telecommunications company in Australia, Porus was the Senior Database Consultant in the central DBA team for a number of years and was responsible for database standards, database architecture, and the architecture, setup, and management of the first production Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g site in the world. He next worked in Oracle Advanced Customer Services (ACS) India (Mumbai), and then with an Oracle Platinum Partner, S&I Systems in Singapore, before rejoining Oracle Corporation in the same city.

Porus is an enthusiast for Oracle technology, especially Oracle Enterprise Manager, on which he has conducted popular seminars and webinars for large multinational corporations, and has implemented this powerful enterprise toolset. Because Enterprise Manager is the backbone of the Oracle Database Cloud, it was a natural progression for him to work on and write on the myriad Database as a Service capabilities of Oracle technology. He enjoys the power of Oracle technology.

Richard Ridge has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, including working in both Australia and the United Kingdom, predominantly for global financial, telecommunications and retail companies. His technical background is as a Senior DBA with specialist knowledge of SQL Server and Oracle software and management of DB2 platforms. Richards management experience includes running large multifunctional teams (2030 staff) with a combination of onshore and offshore resources. He and Porus worked together in the early 2000s.

Kamran Aghayev A. is an Oracle ACE Director and Oracle Certified Master DBA with seven years of experience managing UNIX-based Oracle Databases. Currently he is working at AzerCell Telecom as an Expert DBA and also serves as a lecturer teaching Oracle Database Administration at Qafqaz University.

Kamran is an author of the book Oracle Backup & Recovery: Expert Secrets for Using RMAN and Data Pump and also publishes a popular blog at http://kamranagayev.com .

He has also presented at Oracle Open World conference twice (2010/2011) at San Francisco, Thailand Oracle User Group (OUGTH), and Turkish Oracle User Group (TROUG) events.

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