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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...

(Image by  Elisa Riva ) As we inevitably approach the end of the year ーa year marked with many important advances in all areas of the data management spaceー I just can’t avoid thinking with expectation and excitement what should be there just around the corner for 2018. If 2017 was all but boring, 2018 looks like another promising one, no less fast and competitive than 2017. But after what Niels Bohr once said : Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. I will avoid making big prediction statements and instead, take a look at some relevant things happened this ending year and what will be interesting to follow closely for next year. Still, feel free to call me out next year on what I missed. A look back at 2017 2017 has been a year full with exciting events and news and yet the following events are, in my view, those that deserve much more attention due to the transformational nature of the industry. So here, and in no particular orde...

As organizations deal with challenging times ―technologically and business wise―, managing increasing volumes of data has become a key to success. As data management rapidly evolve, the main Big Data paradigm has changed from just “big” to “big, fast, reliable and efficient”. No more than today in the evolution of the big data and database markets, the pressure is on for software companies to deliver new and improved database solutions capable not just to deal with increasing volumes of data but also to do it faster, better and in a more reliable fashion. A number of companies have taken the market by storm, infusing the industry with new and spectacularly advanced database software —for both transactional and non-transactional operations— that are rapidly changing the database software landscape. One of these companies is VoltDB . This New England (Massachusetts) based company has rapidly become a reference when it comes to the offering of next-generation of database s...