SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle OpenWorld
— In the opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld,
Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry
Ellison shared his vision for a second-generation cloud that
is purpose built for the enterprise and more technologically
advanced and secure than any cloud on the market.
While first generation clouds are built on decade old
technology, Oracle's Gen 2 Cloud is built specifically to help
enterprises run the most demanding workloads securely. With a
unique architecture and capabilities, Oracle Cloud is able to
deliver unmatched security, performance, and cost savings.
Additionally, only Oracle Gen 2 Cloud is built to run Oracle
Autonomous Database, the industry's first and only self-driving
database.
The foundation for Oracle's Gen 2 Cloud, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure is designed to run any enterprise workload securely.
Oracle's modern IaaS offers native support for Oracle Autonomous
Database and delivers new levels of security from core to edge to
protect critical data.
Ellison spoke at length about the current state of the cyber
defense, which he said, "is just not good enough." To address that
paramount issue, he announced new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
security services that are highly automated, detective and
predictive to help remediate threats. Reinforcing Oracle Cloud's
unmatched security, Ellison illustrated how Oracle Autonomous
Database uniquely scans for security threats and applies security
updates while running to help prevent cyberattacks and data
theft.
He also discussed Oracle Autonomous Database, the world's most
popular and technologically advanced database. Revolutionizing data
management, Oracle Autonomous Database manages, tunes and patches
itself, enabling users to innovate faster on a highly secure
platform that allows users to pay for only what they
use.
Extending Oracle's autonomous database capabilities, Ellison
previewed new deployment options, including dedicated Exadata Cloud
Infrastructure and Cloud at Customer. Customers can choose to
deploy their Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Cloud
Infrastructure for workload isolation to enable even greater
security and reliability for mission-critical workloads. Oracle
Autonomous Database Cloud at Customer is ideal for customers who
choose not to move to a public cloud because of regulatory
requirements but want the benefits of Oracle Autonomous Database in
their own data center.
Ellison also shared benchmark test results during short
demonstrations that highlighted the huge performance gap between
Oracle and Amazon. The benchmarks compared Oracle Autonomous
Database against key offerings from Amazon: Oracle Database running
on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora, and
Amazon Redshift. The direct comparisons also showed Oracle
Autonomous Database's ability to continue running without
interruption during database updates, highlighting the difference
between Amazon's 99.95 percent reliability and availability SLAs,
which exclude most sources of unplanned and planned downtime, and
Oracle's 99.995 percent SLA guarantees.
Quotes from Ellison's keynote:
- "The design goal of Oracle's Gen 2 Cloud is one secure platform
to run everything. It's easy to say, very hard to do, to build a
secure cloud. It required a fundamental re-architecture of our
cloud."
- "We've used a lot of the latest artificial intelligence and
machine learning to find threats. You're not fighting with both
hands tied behind your back anymore."
- "Our goal has always been as we move from one generation of
computing to the next, to protect your investment in data and
applications and make it easy to lift and move that into the next
generation. We did that with Gen 2 Cloud."
- "With Oracle Autonomous Database, there is nothing to learn and
nothing to do, which makes it really easy to use. Developers are
more productive, they bring up new applications, they do a better
job of analyzing data. Your system is more reliable. It never goes
down."
Try Oracle Autonomous Database for free.
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About Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle OpenWorld, the
industry's most important business and technology conference for
the past 20 years, hosts tens of thousands of in-person attendees
as well as millions online. Dedicated to helping businesses
leverage Cloud for their innovation and growth, the conference
delivers deep insight into industry trends and breakthroughs driven
by technology. With hundreds of demos and hands-on labs, plus
exhibitions from more than 250 partners and customers from around
the world, Oracle OpenWorld has become a showcase for leading cloud
technologies, from Cloud Applications to Cloud Platform and
Infrastructure. For more information; to register; or to watch
Oracle OpenWorld keynotes, sessions, and more, visit
www.oracle.com/openworld. Join the Oracle OpenWorld discussion on
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