Roger Bamford
Roger Bamford is Principal Architect for the Oracle database. For the past six years, he has dedicated himself to the development of Oracle “Cache Fusion,” the architecture underlying Oracle’s recently announced Oracle9i Real Application Clusters. He and his team have been instrumental in the development of this technology breakthrough, which delivers better performance and availability each time a new computer is added to a cluster, without ever having to change the application. Under his direction, Oracle has already patented nine of the innovative aspects of Oracle9i Real Applications Clusters, with eighteen additional patents pending. Mr. Bamford is currently working on commodity clusters and other salability projects.
Mr. Bamford has been an Oracle database software engineer for more than sixteen years. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked at IBM Research and IBM Office Systems Advanced Technology Group. Mr. Bamford is responsible for many software innovations including many software innovations relating to the architecture and performance of relational database management systems.
Mr. Bamford holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s in electrical engineering from Stanford University.