Nitin Vengurlekar is the co-founder and CTO of Viscosity North America, a leader in virtualization, Oracle Engineered Systems, Private Database Cloud and RAC implementations. At Viscosity Nitin is responsible for partner relationship and end-2-end solution deployment.

Prior to joining Viscosity, Nitin worked for Oracle for more than 17 years, mostly in the Real Application Cluster (RAC) engineering group and RAC Product Management. Main emphasis was on ASM, 3rd Party Storage Integration, and RAC integration. The last three years at Oracle, was the spent as Database Cloud Architect/Evangelist in the Oracle’s Cloud Strategy Group in charge of Private Database Cloud messaging.

Nitin is a well-known Oracle technologist and speaker in the areas of Oracle Storage, high availability, Oracle RAC, and private database cloud. He is the author of Database Cloud Storage, Oracle Automatic Storage Management and the Data Guard Handbook and has written many papers on storage, database internals, database tuning, and served as a contributor to Oracle documentation as well as Oracle education material.

My focus is and always been, providing thought leadership and guidance on technology and architecture for highly available systems.

With more than 25 years of IT experience, including OS390 Systems Programming, Storage Administration, System and Database Administration, Nitin is a seasoned systems architect who has successfully assisted numerous customers in deploying highly available Oracle systems.

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A little bit Viscosity:
Viscosity North America specializes in helping customers maximize their Oracle and VMWare/OVM investments. We specialize in Oracle on virtualization platforms and Oracle RAC. We have a world-class organization that excels in Database Migration, VCE deployment, Exadata Consolidation Deployment, Tuning and Exadata Patching.