Oracle CloudWorld 2023: Key announcements and highlights

Oracle’s biggest event, Oracle CloudWorld 2023, returns to Las Vegas on September 18–21, 2023. It’s the best place to learn about Oracle solutions, including infrastructure, databases, and applications, from the people who build and use them. CloudWorld features a lineup of great keynotes, breakout sessions, demos, and hands-on labs, in collaboration with our global partner sponsors. See the complete agenda in the session catalog.

Tech product announcements have been categorized into seven news packages, representing a conglomeration of the innovations being announced.

Core infrastructure

Oracle’s core infrastructure addresses every customer workload with superior flexibility, security, and performance, all at the best price. At CloudWorld 2023, hear us announce more new Compute instances with the latest CPUs for generalpurpose workloads and GPUs for AI training and inferencing workloads. In addition, we’re making announcements related to expanded partnerships to support new workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

• Oracle announces general availability for OCI Commpute bare metal instances powered by NVIDIA H100 GPUs

• Red Hat and Oracle expand collaboration to bring Red Hat OpenShift to OCI

• Oracle delivers more choices for AI infrastructure and general-purpose compute

• VMware and Oracle strengthen partnership to simplify cloud procurement

• Loblaw, Canada’s largest retailer, exchanges its data centers for OCI to see a 35% improvement

Distributed cloud

This CloudWorld 2023, see us demonstrate our leadership in distributed cloud, deploying cloud services to specific locations with all the required controls to meet the widest range of regulatory and performance needs. Learn more about the first partner building cloud services on Alloy for its customers. Hear us announce important new multicloud capabilities.

• Amdocs is now supported on OCI

• Oracle expands distributed cloud offerings to help customers innovate anywhere

• OCI helps Red Bull Ford Powetrains speed design process by doubling the number of engine simulations to keep goals for 2026 racing season on track

Data

We’re announcing new capabilities across Oracle’s portfolio of data services that can expand the Oracle Database “App Simple” strategy, provide new capabilities for MySQL HeatWave, enhance data integration capabilities, and introduce new open source solutions, enabling you to derive more value from your data and simplifying your operations.

• The world’s most powerful database, Oracle Database 23c, is now generally available on Oracle Database

• MySQL HeatWave increases ease-of-use for customers with vector store, AutoML and Lakehouse enhancements, JSON, and JavaScript support

• Oracle introduces Integrated Vector Database to augment Generative AI and dramatically increases developer productivity

• Oracle expands cloud services with new open source data management solutions to help organizations enhance their data operations

• Oracle and Uber announced Collect and Receive, connecting retailers and consumers to enhance and enrich last mile delivery

Analytics

Watch as we launch new capabilities that empower you, provide accelerated insights, and enhance opportunities for integration with Oracle solutions. We’re announcing new products that continue to help business end users in new functional areas during Oracle CloudWorld 2023.

• Tenet Healthcare streamlines HR and payroll processes with Oracle

• Oracle helps organizations boost employee engagement and retention

• Oracle announces next-generation fusion data intelligence platform

• Oracle adds new self-service AI capabilities, including generative-AI assistant to Oracle Analytics Cloud

• Oracle launches Oracle Fusion Applications Environment Management

AI and ML

Learn about Oracle’s practical and pragmatic approach to AI, embedding it across its software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, delivering prebuilt models in Oracle Database and MySQL HeatWave, providing multiple ways to create custom machine learning (ML) models, and building low-cost and high-speed infrastructure. New partnerships with companies, such as Anaconda and NVIDIA, signal Oracle’s growth and commitment to an AI future.

• OCI delivers the Enterprise Generative AI service to help organizations automate business processes and enhance customer experiences

• Oracle announced new Generative AI services for healthcare organizations

• Oracle introduces Generative AI capabilities to help organizations improve customer service

Application development

At CloudWorld 2023, we plan to share our vision for the future of application development. We’re also introducing new and unique capabilities in OCI developer services, Java, and integrations. Learn how we’re upgrading the developer community experience by launching new tools, open source initiatives, and new ways for developers to connect, share, and collaborate.

• Oracle announces GraalOS, a new cloud runtime technology to bolster OCI Functions

• Oracle announces the availability of Java 21

• Oracle announces new application development capabilities to enable developers to rapidly build and deploy applications on OCI

Foundations

We continue to release solutions across our portfolio of fundamental services, such as security, identity, manageability, compliance, and governance, enhancing the confidence of our customers to move their applications and workloads to the cloud. With security announcements such as Oracle Access Governance, Oracle is making security easier for customers to adopt. New management services, such as Oracle Fusion Applications Environment Management and OCI Fleet Management, can help you streamline the administration of OCI services and resources.

• Oracle collaborates with Applied Invention to create an open standard for network and data security

• Oracle Access Governance helps organizations simplify the security for critical digital resources

• Thale launches CipherTrust Cloud Key Management integration with OCI to meet growing customer demand

See you there!

Stay tuned for daily announcements and updates!