Oracle Unveils World's First Autonomous Database Cloud

At Oracle OpenWorld 2017, Larry Ellison unveiled his vision for the world's first autonomous database cloud. Powered by Oracle Database 18c, the next generation of the industry-leading database, Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud uses ground-breaking machine learning to enable unprecedented availability, high performance and security at a much lower cost.
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Watch the highlight of Larry Ellison's announcement during Oracle OpenWorld 2017.
Read Forbes OracleVoice: Larry Ellison Introduces 'A Big Deal': The Oracle Autonomous Database.
Learn more about Oracle Autonomous Database.

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse: Simple, Reliable, Instant Elasticity

Introduced at Oracle OpenWorld 2017, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is built on the "self-driving" Oracle Autonomous Cloud Database technology to deliver high performance, reliability, and ease of deployment.
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Larry Ellison Demonstrates How AWS Is 5x to 13x More Expensive

During the opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2017, Larry Ellison demonstrated how AWS is 5x to 13x more expensive than Oracle Cloud.
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Oracle Autonomous Database: How It Works

In this video, Oracle SVP Juan Loaiza shares the secret on how Oracle Autonomous Database delivers full end-to-end automation for mission-critical workloads, including automation in provisioning, patching, securing, monitoring, optimizing, and more.
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Watch the Keynotes and General Sessions at Oracle OpenWorld 2017

Oracle OpenWorld 2017 wrapped up successfully with exciting announcements, educational sessions, interactive demos in the Exchange, and more. Missed the event? Keynotes and general sessions are now available on-demand so you can watch and share.
Watch Oracle OpenWorld 2017 on Demand.

2017 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award Winners

Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award honors customers using Oracle's PaaS and IaaS services to accelerate innovation and drive business transformation. Congratulations to all the recipients of the Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Award this year, including Anthem, AT&T, Australian Finance Group, LinkedIn, National Pharmacies, Santander, Subaru of America, Veritone, and more.
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Oracle Cloud Day: Explore Tomorrow, Today

Join us for Oracle Cloud Day 2017 as we bring you and other industry leaders closer to tomorrow's technology through the cloud. You'll also see how Oracle Cloud can help seamlessly integrate the next generation of innovations with your existing business applications—whether on-premises or in the cloud.
View and register for upcoming events in North America.
View and register for upcoming events in Europe.
View and register for upcoming events in Middle East and Africa.

Oracle Database Cloud Services "How To" Series—EMEA

Delivered by Oracle Database product management, this webcast series is your guide to success with Oracle Database Cloud Services. Presenters will give you architectural insight, technical guidance, and practical steps to configure Oracle Database Cloud Service. No matter you are a DBA, a developer, an application architect, a cloud architect, or an IT director, you'll benefit from the technical tips and expert knowledge offered in this webcast series!

• 11/3 @ 10AM CET: Patching an Oracle Database Cloud Service and REST APIs for Provisioning and Management
• 11/17 @ 10AM CET: Using Pluggable Databases to Migrate Data from On-premises to Cloud & Database Cloud to Database Cloud

Discover How to Manage and Perform DBA Tasks for Oracle Database 12c R2

Check out these recently-released training courses to discover how to manage, achieve high availability, and ensure business continuity for Oracle Database 12c Release 2.

• Oracle Database 12c R2: Managing Multitenant Architecture
  This workshop offers an overview of the multitenant container database and its pluggable databases. You will learn why and how to create and manage a multitenant container database and its regular and application pluggable databases, with storage structures appropriate for the business applications.
• New! Oracle Database 12c R2: High Availability New Features
  This course covers new High Availability features found in Oracle Database 12c R2. Focus areas include Clusterware, ASM, ACFS, RAC, and Data Guard.
• New! Oracle Database 12c R2: Backup and Recovery Workshop
  In this Workshop, students learn how to perform backup and recovery based on the related Oracle Database architecture components. Various backup, failure, restore, and recovery scenarios are provided so that students learn to evaluate their own recovery requirements and develop an appropriate strategy for backup and recovery procedures.