Paper Title: Oracle Exadata: Achieving Memory-Level Performance with NVME Flash

Paper Abstract: New technologies such as PCIe NVMe flash open many new possibilities for modern databases. A carefully architected shared NVMe flash system such as Exadata can deliver close to memory performance and scale up to hundreds of terabytes in capacity. This session offers an inside view of how Oracle Exadata embraces flash in its architecture and couples it with software to deliver DRAM-level performance with increased availability and massive capacity. The session explores in detail the unique innovations that Exadata offers to maximize database performance while maintaining transactional consistency and high availability.

Paper Author: Gurmeet Goindi, Master Product Manager, Oracle

Author Bio: Gurmeet Goindi is Master Product Manager in Oracle Databases Systems Technology organization. He is currently responsible for the Exadata Database Machine, hardware and software roadmaps, and the Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliances hardware roadmap. Gurmeet is also an evangelist for innovations Oracle is bringing in application aware storage and flash arena and has presented Oracles vision at various industry forums Storage Network World (SNW), Flash Memory Summit, Open Server Summit, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Storage Developer Conference, Oracle Expert Summits, IOUG Collaborate, Oracle Open World and many regional Oracle User Groups. Gurmeet has been working in Silicon Valley for the last 17 years in engineering, management, and product management roles. Before joining Oracle, he was a member of NetApp's engineering organization for 7+ years, most recently as the architect for the flagship FAS6200 storage platform. He previously worked for Bay Networks and Motorola Computing Group designing Internet routers, firewalls, and high performance computers. Gurmeet has a Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and an MBA from the University of Chicago - Booth School of Business.