Satyendra Pasalapudi is an Oracle ACE Director & MBA graduate with 17+ years of diversified international experience in the IT industry that spans across multiple continents. He is an accomplished database professional, author, and speaker with right blend of business and technology skills. Pasalapudi has bootstrapped various Strategic Business Units in his career and is currently working as a Director at Apps Associates Pvt Ltd heading their Infrastructure Managed Services and Cloud practice at GDC and has worked with APTS, Pointsoft, Kenexa, DELL and Megasoft in his earlier assignments.Pasalapudi supported customer databases across INDIA, US, UK and Middle East from 7.X to 11g on various operating systems. His areas of strength include, Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning,Architecting Enterprise Systems, Infrastructure Design & Solutioning, Exadata, RAC, Data Guard and Datacenter Operations. He has strong domain skills in Telecom, Finance and Banking. Pasalapudi is the Co-Founder and President of the All India Oracle Users Group (AIOUG) and is a frequent speaker at the Oracle Open World, AIOUG Sangam , IOUG Collaborate and other conferences.