Nitin Vengurlekar, a consulting member of the technical staff at Oracle, is the author of Oracle Automatic Storage Management by Oracle Press. With more than 22 years of IT experience, including OS390 Systems Programming, UNIX Storage Administration, System and Database Administration, Nitin is a seasoned systems architect who has successfully assisted numerous customers to deploy highly available Oracle systems.

He has worked for Oracle for more than 14 years, currently in the Real Application Cluster (RAC) engineering group, with specific emphasis on ASM and storage. He has written many papers on ASM usage and deployments on various storage array architectures and serves as a writer and contributor to Oracle documentation as well as Oracle education material.