Recent Posts by Jeffrey Erickson

“Just one more thing,” Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said, as he completed his keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld September 16. After detailing a raft of innovations for the company’s Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure—complete with trademark brash challenges to industry rivals—Ellison, with a nod to his friend and former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, ended with a kicker: Starting immediately, Oracle would offer a free version of its revolutionary autonomous database for...

As autonomous databases become part of large database estates, monitor and manage them with Oracle Enterprise Manager. By Jeff Erickson July/August 2019 At a recent Customer Advisory Board meeting on the Oracle headquarters campus, product managers listened to power users of Oracle Enterprise Manager as they shared their complex use cases and reacted to product roadmaps for Oracle’s flagship IT monitoring and management tool. One thing those product managers heard loud and clear...

A new dedicated service and the latest developer tools let more go autonomous. By Jeff Erickson July/August 2019 Even for people eager to use Oracle Autonomous Database’s self-driving, self-repairing, and self-securing capabilities, the question always comes down to this: Is it right for my workload? So Oracle has expanded the types of autonomous database services it offers to cover more use cases and at the same time provide more developer tool choices for building apps using...

Oracle is offering two new ways to take advantage of its Autonomous Database, and each in a different way makes things more interesting for companies wanting to move their Oracle Databases to the cloud.  The first is Oracle Autonomous Database Dedicated service, which lets a company run its databases in Oracle Cloud on physical machines dedicated only to their computing workloads. This setup matters to companies that have particularly high security, reliability, and control...

If you follow tech trends, you know that companies these days are often skipping the cost and hassle of operating data centers and instead using readily available cloud services. For many big companies, though, it’s a matter of using both models: finding ever-more ways to take advantages of cloud computing services while still keeping the best of their data centers. That’s the fuel behind Oracle’s Exadata Database Machine, which celebrates its 10th year in production, and the...

Blockchain, IoT, and AI are here, but how do data experts use them in new business projects? By Jeff Erickson May/June 2019 Jerry Ward has always been a database tech geek. But for him the database was never an end in itself—it was a launchpad into interesting business use cases. “Even back when I was upgrading our company to version 6 of Oracle Database, I was also working on our build of Oracle Manufacturing and Oracle Financials in Oracle Forms,” he says. Today the regular...