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We’re excited to announce that you can now replicate your block storage volumes across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions! This new capability expands and augments our existing feature set to help with your business continuity, disaster recovery, data migration, and expansion by providing seamless asynchronous replication for all your volumes. So far, we’ve provided a rich set of backup features both in region and across regions to help with this need: Scheduled...

We’re excited to announce a new capability designed to help you with your business continuity and disaster recovery on the cloud. You can now apply and manage automated backup policies on your volume groups in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Block Volume service. This feature is an extension of the automated policy-based backup capability and the volume groups that we announced earlier. Enterprise applications typically require multiple volumes across multiple Compute...

We’re excited to announce a significant cost savings opportunity and capability for our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volumes customers. You can now tune the performance of your detached volumes to the Lower Cost setting automatically. With this new capability, while your volumes stay in a detached state you can achieve significant cost savings over our already industry-leading storage pricing. When you’re ready to use them for your workloads, simply attach them, and their...

As your business demands and handles more data every day, you face a constant challenge. Have you ever provisioned a block storage volume or created a compute instance with a small boot volume, only to find out that you need a larger volume a few weeks or months later? You need to be able to scale your existing data storage and system disks easily, without risk, and without any impact to your running applications, users, and business. We’re excited to announce that you can now...

We’re excited to announce that you can now copy boot volume backups of your compute instances between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions. This new capability follows our prior announcement of cross-region block volume backups. Together, they provide a complete solution for comprehensive application and data protection in the cloud, including the easy recovery of compute instances across regions. Cross-region backup copy for the boot volumes of your compute instances and block...

We’re excited to announce that it's now possible to share and attach a block storage volume to multiple compute instances on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Up until now, although multiple block volumes can be attached to a single compute instance, there has been a limitation to attach a volume for read/write access from only one compute instance at a time. Other public cloud vendors have similar design limitations, with the exception of shared read-only volume access that...

Today, we’re excited to announce the next generation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volumes. You can now dynamically change the performance characteristics of all your block storage and boot volumes as needed, while they are online, as frequent as you like, without a lengthy process or downtime in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This elastic performance configuration capability for your volumes is the first in a series of updates coming soon as we innovate for the next...

We’re excited to announce that you can now create, apply and manage your custom automated backup policies for all your volumes in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service. This feature is an extension of the predefined automated backup policies we announced earlier. You now have more control and flexibility over the automated backups for all your new and existing block volumes. Each policy has a set of backup schedules that you define and control. To adhere to your...

You can now leverage a powerful and differentiating feature from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to manage multiple block storage volumes and boot volumes more quickly and easily. In May 2018, we introduced our volume groups feature, which enables you to streamline the creation and management of groups of block volumes by using the CLI, SDK, and Terraform. The ability to manage volume groups is ideal for the protection and lifecycle management of enterprise applications, which...