Oracle Unveils More Autonomous Software to Boost Cloud Growth

Oracle unveiled an operating system that runs without the need for human oversight, according to Bloomberg.

The operating system expands Oracle’s line of autonomous products beyond databases, the company’s flagship software. Chairman Larry Ellison announced the new Linux-based product during remarks at OpenWorld, Oracle’s annual user conference in San Francisco.

“If you eliminate human error in autonomous systems, you eliminate data theft,“ Ellison said on stage. The feature makes Oracle’s products more secure than those sold by cloud leader Amazon Web Services, he said. Ellison added that the operating system, which the company’s Autonomous Database runs on, will update itself without any downtime.

The company also announced a variety of changes and new programs to bolster its partner ecosystem. They unveiled an agreement with VMware to bring virtualization software to Oracle’s cloud. Oracle also expanded a relationship with McAfee to bring its security incident software to their infrastructure cloud. Ellison said Oracle would offer a free version of its Cloud Infrastructure, giving developers, students and others perpetual access to the company’s autonomous database, computing and storage.

The company also plans to launch 20 additional cloud data-center hubs, called “regions,“ by the end of 2020. Ellison said the company would have more regions around the world than AWS. Oracle will let customers run the autonomous database in their own data centers next year, and unveiled new servers with updated memory components from Intel.