Wei Hu is the Director of Engineering for High Availability and Recovery at Oracle Corporation. His goal is to radically improve the availability and resiliency of complex server software. Wei is currently leading an exceptionally talented team that is developing cutting edge technologies and practices to make databases and application servers unbreakable. Their objective is to address the entire range of outages (system failures, data corruptions, and human error) that can make software systems unavailable. Wei is proud of the fact that the technologies and practices developed by his team are in daily use by thousands of customers worldwide.
Before joining Oracle, Wei worked in the server division at SGI, where he worked on a number of scalability projects. Some of the projects he contributed to include: clustering multiple computers for availability and scalability, a high performance 64-bit filesystem that approaches raw disk performance, and intelligent Web traffic management for rich content. These fundamental technologies later became the foundation for building some truly large-scale application systems.
Prior to SGI, Wei was with the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). There, he led the development of a remote procedure call service that is integrated with global naming and security. This later became part of the Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment (OSF/DCE). At DEC, Wei also worked on a virtual-machine operating system called the VAX Secure Virtual Systems. This system was designed to be verifiably secure at the highest possible level. In prior years, Wei also worked at Honeywell and IBM, where he focused on operating systems, networking, and real-time computing. Wei holds numerous patents from the work that he has done in these areas.
Wei received his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author and co-author of two books on distributed computing, and has also written several papers on computer security and networking.
