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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...

Today we released an exciting service update to ensure that block-volume-device path names and hierarchies stay consistent and persist across reboots. This usability-related update simplifies the management and ordering of block storage devices and improves the user experience for many of the workloads that run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Now when you attach a volume to an instance, you can select a device path name from a drop-down list. Device path names have the format d...

We are excited to announce that you can now copy your block volume backups between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions. This new capability is part of our continual investment to provide customers with comprehensive application and data protection solutions in cloud. Cross-region backup copy enhances the following capabilities: Disaster recovery and business continuity: By copying block volume backups to another region at a regular interval, you can rebuild applications and...

You face a constant challenge as your business demands and handles more data every day. In addition to tackling the ever-growing demand for data storage, you must also apply patches and upgrades to your operating systems, install new applications or update your existing applications frequently. All of this places a growing demand on the size of your existing operating system disks. You need to be able to scale your existing data storage and system disks easily, without risk,...

We are excited to announce that you can now backup and clone your boot volumes online without any downtime on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Put all your worries about application protection and life-cycle management behind you! We continue to invest heavily in adding comprehensive application and data protection solutions to our cloud offering. Boot volumes provide remote boot disks that are encrypted by default, offer high performance and fast launch times, and durability for...