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With a recent announcement Oracle, the global software and hardware powerhouse follows on its continuing effort to equipe all the solutions from its Cloud Platform with autonomous capabilities. As part of a venture that started early this year with the announcement of the first set of autonomous services —including Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service — and the announcement of Oracle 18c to be Oracle’s first fully autonomous database— the company is now extending these capabilities with the launch of another set of services in the cloud. This time the turn is for three new services: Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud , O racle Autonomous Integration Cloud , and Oracle Autonomous Visual Builder Cloud which, according to Oracle, will be followed by the release of more autonomous services later through the year and which will be focused on mobile, chatbots, data integration, blockchain, security and management,  as well as more traditional database workloads includi...

In what was probably the most important announcement made during 2017 ’s version of Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, the company announced the release of version 18c of its worldwide known database management system which includes two key features: to be a fully automated. Oracle’s founder and CTO Larry Ellison made the announcement of the autonomous database, which includes database and cyber-security automation because, according to Mr. Ellison, “human processes stink”. According to Oracle, the autonomous database will practically eliminate all human intervention associated with all database managing activities like tuning, patching, updating and maintenance by including major capabilities: Self-Driving: Provides continuous adaptive performance tuning based on machine learning. Automatically upgrades and patches itself while running. Automatically applies security updates while running to protect against cyber-attacks. Self-Scaling: Instantly resizes compute and stora...