Cloud Leader, Week of October 9, 2017 |  Web View   Forward to a Friend CLOUD LEADER News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy   Editor's Note Glimpse into the Future When Thomas Kurian, Oracle president of product development, mapped out the company's technology path at Oracle OpenWorld last week, he described it as "a glimpse into the future of Oracle, of how we're infusing the new technologies of autonomous computing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, and new forms of human interface into our cloud offering." Feel like you're hearing a lot about those technologies lately? It's precisely because companies such as Oracle are making them more practical for companies to use in the real world. See Beyond Cloud: Oracle Offers a Glimpse into the Future. — Chris Murphy, director of cloud content at Oracle Video: Highlights from Thomas Kurian's Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Keynote More Cloud News Cloud Infrastructure Shouldn't Mean Compromising Only Oracle Cloud Infrastructure "lets you run your full existing stack alongside cloud-native applications," said Oracle's Don Johnson, senior vice president of product development, at Oracle OpenWorld. This matters because CIOs should be able to migrate to the cloud at their own pace, Johnson said. Learn about new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offerings announced at the conference. Blockchain 'Extends Boundaries of the Enterprise' "Blockchain can remove the need for intermediaries and replace it with cryptographically secure protocols," explained Oracle's Mark Rakhmilevich at Oracle OpenWorld. Bitcoin may have made blockchain famous, but companies can use it—via the new Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service—in a range of ways to accelerate existing processes and lower collaboration risks. What are the big benefits? Catch the Machine Learning Drift—Before the Drift Catches You Oracle's Prakash Ramamurthy asked his Oracle OpenWorld audience members to imagine that they applied a patch but then later spooled up a virtual server containing an obsolete library with a known vulnerability. This is drift, and drift is bad. How do you stop it? Meet the New Development Stack: Kubernetes, CI/CD, and More Announcing Fn, an Open Source Serverless Functions Platform Get Started with Oracle Cloud Experience Oracle Cloud with $300 in Free Credits  Watch: Oracle OpenWorld on Demand  Cloud Foundry Arrives on Oracle Cloud with a Provider Interface and Service Brokers  Oracle Transforms IT Security and Management with New Machine Learning Capabilities  Video The 1,000-MPH Car, Powered by Data How do you inspire the next generation of engineers? Ask Richard Noble, project director of The Bloodhound Project to build a car that breaks 1,000 mph. Watch highlights from his Oracle OpenWorld keynote. Events Oracle Cloud Day October–January | Worldwide How to Move Finance to the Cloud October 18 | Online Oracle New Technology Breakthrough to Empower Your Private Cloud October 20 | Hong Kong Stay connected Subscribe to get Cloud Leader newsletter every week. Visit your profile page to subscribe to other Oracle publications.   Global Contacts     Sales Chat Live Please send questions or comments to newsletter_feedback_us@oracle.com.