Bob Thome

Vice President of Product Management

Bob Thome has over 30 years of experience working in the Information Technology industry. With experience in both hardware and software companies, he has managed databases, clusters, systems and support services. Additionally, Bob Thome's experience spans 20 years at Oracle, where he has been responsible for high availability, information integration, clustering and storage management technologies for the database. For the past several years, Bob has directed product management for Oracle Database cloud technologies, including Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, and Oracle Base Database Service.

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Recent Blogs

Introducing Exadata X11M for Exadata Database Service and Autonomous ...

Exadata X11M enables orders of magnitude higher performance than competitive database systems. Optimized for the latest generation of AMD EPYC processors, Exadata provides increased performance across all workloads, with faster AI Vector queries, faster IOPS, faster access to storage, and faster analytics scans and query throughput.

Introducing Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure. Exadata Database Service provides customers around the world with extreme performance, reliability, availability, and security benefits they depend on for their Oracle Database workloads.

Oracle Database 23ai Now Available in Cloud

We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle Database 23ai on Exadata Database Service, Base Database Service, and Always Free Autonomous Database. Oracle Database 23ai is the latest long-term support release of Oracle Database, with a focus on AI, developer productivity and mission-critical data.

Introducing Exadata Cloud@Customer X10M

We are excited to announce Exadata Cloud@Customer X10M, the latest generation of the world’s best on-premises cloud database platform. Exadata Cloud@Customer X10M now has 3 times as many cores than in the previous generation. With 190 usable 4th Generation AMD EPYCTM processors per database server, you can consolidate more work into fewer servers, reducing the number of servers in your subscription and simplifying your deployment.

US Treasury Department Affirms What Leading Exadata Cloud@Customer ...

The US Department of the Treasury published a paper titled “The Financial Services Sector’s Adoption of Cloud Services.” In that paper they raised some potential concerns with Banks embracing the Cloud. It raises some valid points, but mostly it re-affirms what users of Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer already know: Cloud@Customer is a better model than pure cloud for addressing the Cloud requirements of Financial Services companies.

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