#OOW19: Top Announcements and Main Takes
It was a very interesting Oracle Open World this September in San Francisco.
Here are my main takes on the various keynote announcements, sorted according to importance.
- Support ending for non-CDB architecture
- The Oracle Database non-CDB architecture will be de-supported from Oracle Database 20c onwards. This is quite the wake-up call for organizations reluctant to make the switch to multi-tenancy up until now.
- Oracle Autonomous Linux
- Oracle Linux has been rebranded as Oracle Autonomous Linux, with the following reported capabilities:
- Auto provisioning
- Auto scaling
- Auto tuning
- Auto online patching and updating
- Auto security monitoring and remediation
- It is said to be 100 percent compatible with IBM Red Hat – obviously to attract Red Hat customers to migrate their databases to the “new” OS.
- Oracle Linux has been rebranded as Oracle Autonomous Linux, with the following reported capabilities:
- New cloud offering: Oracle Data Safe
- The unified database security control center has the following reported capabilities:
- Security configuration assessment
- User risk assessment
- User activity auditing
- Sensitive data discovery
- Data masking
- The unified database security control center has the following reported capabilities:
- Gen 2 Exadata Cloud@Customer
- Private cloud has been rebranded as “Cloud@Customer,” now offering Gen 2 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for on-prem customers
- Looks exactly like Oracle Database running in the public cloud
- Said to have easier installation than Gen 1
- Fully autonomous database at customer coming in 2020
- Two new Exadata X8 models
- Adopting market trend NVMeoF (non-volatile Memory (PCI) Express over Fabrics) and no longer using InfiniBand! (Mellanox’s cumbersome driver stack was a big drawback.)
- Faster RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) over 100Gbps Ethernet lines
- Exadata X8M model (M = memory)
- Said to have super low latency
- Also implements Intel’s new 3D XPoint persistent memory technology:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-optane-technology.html
- Both models are running Oracle Linux 7. Exadata HW and firmware teams have finally made the transition to Red Hat 7.x.
- Adopting market trend NVMeoF (non-volatile Memory (PCI) Express over Fabrics) and no longer using InfiniBand! (Mellanox’s cumbersome driver stack was a big drawback.)
- VMware cooperation
- New hybrid cloud strategy named “Oracle Cloud VMware” will allow customers to run VMware workloads over Oracle Cloud.
- No doubt that this is a win-win for both VMware (which can establish a cloud presence in a Linux KVM based cloud virtualization world) and Oracle (which can attract high-end VMware-based on-prem implementations to its public cloud).
- Oracle Database offerings
- Database on-premises
- Customer data center
- Purchased
- Customer managed
- Database Cloud@Customer
- Customer data center
- Subscription
- Oracle managed
- Database in public cloud
- Oracle Cloud
- Subscription
- Oracle managed
- Database on-premises
- 20 new Oracle Cloud regions (to be launched until EOY 2020)
- New Israeli multi-data center Oracle Cloud region
- Oracle 19c upgrade requires Linux 7
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Ortal Bashan is VP Architecture at Axxana, a global leader in providing continuous availability and zero data loss over any distance over existing replication lines.