Edward Whalen is a senior Enterprise Architect with over 25 years of experience in cloud computing, applications, operating systems, computer hardware and database technologies. He is experienced with designing and implementing high performance Enterprise systems and data centers, including primary and disaster recovery systems. The range of skills and experience covers all layers of applications, software and hardware technologies including the latest technologies. Edward Whalen is the author of 10 books covering a wide range of topics including virtualization technologies, and database technologies from Oracle and Microsoft. In addition, Edward Whalen is a recognized expert on Oracle performance tuning, Oracle RAC, SAN implementation, and application workload testing. He currently holds a Top Secret clearance.
Matthew Burke is director of a group focusing on remote database administration: implementation, monitoring, backup and recovery, tuning, and high availability (Implicit Technical Solutions, Remote Management Services: http://www.implicit-its.com). The group is currently servicing the needs of numerous clients in both domestic and international locations. He is recognized within the firm as a technical leader in the areas of Real Application Clusters, Parallel Query, and Replication. Matthew Burke has over two decades of Oracle database administration and development experience. He specializes as an oracle Application DBA in managing all technical aspects of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
