Recent Posts by Jeffrey Erickson

The latest release of Oracle Database brings wide-ranging capabilities to the converged database engine. And it opens up the Oracle APEX low-code platform to even more use cases. Camera, voice recorder, expense manager, even brain trainer—smartphones are ubiquitous because they bring together a lot of useful functions in an elegant package. That same simple, empowering experience is a guiding principle for the team behind Oracle Database, says Andrew Mendelsohn, Oracle...

A report published by KuppingerCole Analysts AG, Leadership Compass: Enterprise Databases in the Cloud, ranks Oracle Autonomous Database as the overall leader versus Amazon and Microsoft with leadership positions in cloud database products and technology, and cloud database innovation. In ranking Oracle as the overall leader, analysts at KuppingerCole rate Oracle’s cloud database offerings with a “strong positive” in security, functionality, deployment, interoperability, and...

What becomes a mighty oak starts as a tiny acorn. Software application development follows this same ageless pattern. And that’s the idea behind Oracle offering a new “Always Free” version of Oracle’s database—to give ideas a place to take root, no matter how much noodling they need, with the potential to grow an idea into a useful app, or even a juggernaut. Launched at Oracle OpenWorld in September, the Always Free version of Oracle’s Autonomous Database has quickly taken root...

Autonomous databases signal change, and DBAs can make that change pay off with new data-focused opportunities. By Jeff Erickson October 14, 2019 A technology shift can be painful for those who aren’t ready for it but a boon for those who prepare. As more enterprise database management work is taken over by autonomous databases—which deploy, tune, upgrade, and secure themselves with no human intervention—the options for the DBAs who do this work remain broad and intriguing. Why?...

Machine learning in Oracle Autonomous Database provides a path to one of the hottest jobs in tech. By Jeff Erickson October 4, 2019 Charlie Berger wants DBAs and database developers to click a link in their autonomous database service console that can open a new world in their careers. It’s there alongside the common data management options for downloading clients or setting passwords, and it’s called Oracle ML Users. “You click on it and now you’re going down a different...

Shifts happen. And when they hit the enterprise technology world, it sets off a ripple effect where thinkers inside tech companies figure out how and when to react. One of those thinkers inside Oracle is Juan Loaiza, the company’s executive vice president of mission-critical database technologies, who spoke to a gathering of database experts at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco on September 18. “It’s such an interesting time to be in data management,” he said, with...

“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...