Alex Blyth

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Alex Blyth

Senior Principal Product Manager

Oracle

Biography

Alex Blyth is a Product Manager for Oracle Exadata with over 22 years of IT experience mainly focused on Oracle Database, Engineered Systems, manageability tools such as Enterprise Manager, and most recently Cloud. Prior to joining the product management team, Alex was a member of the Australia/New Zealand Oracle Presales community and before that a DBA and customer of Oracle's at a Financial Services organization. Alex blogs at https://blogs.oracle.com/exadata and can be connected with on Twitter at @alex_blyth and @ExadataPM

Papers

Exadata: Architecture and Internals Technical Deep Dive

Event: Connect 2021
Stream: Architecture, Cloud Database & Technology

Take a plunge into the technical details of Exadata. This session describes what has been done to enhance Exadata and its integrated database architecture, and how to take maximum advantage of some of the new capabilities. We examine in detail Exadata’s hardware and software architecture, database extensions for Exadata, I/O resource management, Exadata’s Smart Scan, Smart Flash Cache and Persistent Memory features, as well as virtualization capabilities.

Exadata: Strategy and Roadmap for New Technologies, Cloud, and On-Premises

Event: Connect 2021
Stream: Architecture, Cloud Database & Technology

The Exadata architecture is the world’s most advanced cloud-enabled database infrastructure, capable of running all types of modern database workloads. A combination of state-of-the-art hardware, including PCIe flash, leading-edge persistent memory caching, and cloud scale RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), along with unique and smart software makes Exadata the best platform for running Oracle Database. This session provides an overview of current and future Exadata capabilities, including cloud, hybrid, on-premises and autonomous database technologies.