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Jim Williams

Product Manager

  • Jim Williams is a Product Manager with Oracle. As a PM, his focus is on all things storage, but in particular, his primary role is Oracle’s Automatic Storage Management feature of the Oracle database. Before becoming a product manager, he was one of the first members of the ASM development team and has worked to make ASM a successful offering since 2000.

    Jim Williams is a Product Manager with Oracle. As a PM, his focus is on all things storage, but in particular, his primary role is Oracle’s Automatic Storage Management feature of the Oracle database. Before becoming a product manager, he was one of the first members of the ASM development team and has worked to make ASM a successful offering since 2000.

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Recent Posts by Jim Williams

Database-Oriented Storage Management

This is the second blog post in a series covering Oracle’s Automatic Storage Management. This post discusses a remarkable new way of managing storage with ASM features introduced in Oracle Database 12c Release 2, and available in the latest 18c release. This new mode of storage management is called Database-Oriented Storage Management. To fully understand the value of these features, it’s worth going back and consider the original intent with the invention of ASM. The ASM...

Replication Done Right!

Larry Carpenter, guest author -- Whether it is a cloud, an on-premises, or a hybrid environment, the question asked most often is “What is the right solution to protect my data from failures – with the least amount of downtime and data loss?” Well, one choice that comes to mind is to replicate the data to another physical site. This means all the data changes are physically copied to a remote location using some application-agnostic replication technology. You can then...

Oracle MAA and ASM Mirroring

Relational database systems form the core of a company’s Information Technology (IT) business infrastructure. Application downtime and data unavailability translates into lost productivity and revenue, dissatisfied customers, and damage to corporate reputation. A basic building block to building a High Availability (HA) infrastructure is deploying redundant hardware and software resources. Nowhere is this as important than in the realm of storage. Ensuring data reliability...