Oracle President Thomas Kurian Highlights Oracle's Cloud Innovation at Oracle OpenWorld 2017

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- At Oracle OpenWorld 2017, Thomas Kurian, Oracle president of product development, showcased game-changing new services and enhancements across the Oracle Cloud Platform. Providing customers a unique advantage, Oracle is the only cloud provider to deliver a complete cloud portfolio, spanning IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Data as a Service (DaaS). With deep product knowledge, integration, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) built into every layer of the stack, customers can speed innovation with unmatched choice, cost and performance.

Kurian demonstrated several of these new services on stage, showing how customers can transform business with Oracle's cloud services. New cloud innovations spanning infrastructure, analytics, data management, and applications showcased in the session included:

    --  Infrastructure as a Service: With built-in servers, storage, networking
        and supporting cloud services (such as load balancing and DNS), Oracle
        Cloud Infrastructure provides the foundation for customer innovation. As
        Kurian demonstrated in a number of scenarios, the platform was
        architected from the ground-up to provide the fastest compute, fastest
        GPUs, and fastest block storage to drive unmatched performance,
        predictability and lower costs for even the most intense enterprise
        workloads. Kurian also introduced new network capabilities including a
        Public Cloud Service offering 25 gigabit Ethernet to the host with a
        global scale elastic DNS Service. Providing customers ultimate choice in
        how they deploy their architecture, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure enables
        customers to maintain visibility into their on-premises systems and
        extend them to the cloud. Kurian highlighted new developments in Oracle
        Cloud Infrastructure--including enhancements to Compute, Storage,
        Networking and edge capabilities--offering IT operations, developers and
        researchers infrastructure services optimized for production-ready
        enterprise applications.
    --  Platform as a Service: Oracle's PaaS offerings serve as the underlying
        foundation for developing, integrating, monitoring, securing and
        optimizing applications with newly built-in AI and machine learning
        powered tools. Kurian shared Oracle's vision for the future of PaaS
        where software automatically learns, manages, tunes and scales to meet
        changing compute needs. Kurian also discussed the world's first
        autonomous database cloud. Powered by the newly announced Oracle
        Database 18c, the next generation of its industry-leading database,
        Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud eliminates complexity, human error, and
        manual tuning, making it easy for customers to provision and operate
        databases with lower administration costs and freeing them up to focus
        on other critical business tasks. Also noted was the latest generation
        of Oracle Exadata (X7); new innovations in the Oracle Big Data Cloud
        Platform with new artificial Intelligence, data lake and data
        integration capabilities; and leading-edge new cyber security and
        systems management solutions.
    --  Application Development Cloud Services: Oracle gives customers
        unparalleled choices when it comes to open source tools, programming
        languages, and data management platforms that meet desired
        price-performance needs. This enables customers to preserve existing
        investments and increase productivity, while eliminating costly learning
        curves and dramatically reducing integration costs. Kurian discussed
        major advancements to the Oracle Application Development Platform -
        highlighting how Oracle is making it even more open, modern and easy to
        use with container-native development and high scale, fully managed
        Docker and Kubernetes services; expanded polyglot support; and a new
        intelligent chatbot platform. He also showcased Oracle's newly announced
        serverless computing offering. Based on open-source project Fn, the
        service helps customers reduce cloud infrastructure and management costs
        by only paying for the time their functions are running, and not for the
        entire time the cloud compute is on and sitting idle.
    --  Software as a Service: Helping companies operate more intelligently and
        effectively--whether it's closing the books, serving employees or
        engaging with customers--Oracle has built-in AI capabilities across its
        application suite. No matter what the business opportunity or issue,
        Oracle is the only vendor to offer customers a complete and connected
        application suite to run an entire business in the cloud. Offering
        intuitive UIs and embedded collaboration--amplified with new
        developments in machine learning, AI and Internet of Things (IoT) and
        chatbots connectivity--Oracle's suite of cloud applications help
        customers better connect critical business functions and accelerate
        intelligent outcomes. Kurian highlighted new AI SaaS capabilities for
        finance, human resources, supply chain, marketing, commerce, sales and
        customer service professionals. He also demonstrated how companies can
        integrate core elements of the Oracle stack to transform business, such
        as building next-generation applications with built-in Blockchain
        capabilities.
    --  Data as a Service: Powering Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps, Oracle
        Data Cloud enables them to learn, react and adapt in real time based on
        historical and dynamic customer data. This empowers marketers to quickly
        identify audiences, connecting their behaviors across devices and
        platforms--so they can deliver the right message, to the right
        customer--at the right time. Oracle Data Cloud, which is the largest
        data marketplace in the world, features a collection of more than 5
        billion global consumer and business IDs and more than 7.5 trillion data
        points collected monthly.

Quotes from Thomas Kurian

    --  "I am incredibly proud of the work our development organization has done
        these last 10 years to bring you the Oracle Cloud, and to introduce all
        these new innovations that we showed you today."
    --  "Over 10 years ago when we started building the Oracle Cloud, we had a
        very simple mission: we wanted any person anywhere in the world to be
        able to access and use our software. And all that they would need is an
        Internet browser or a phone."
    --  "Here at OpenWorld we're going provide a glimpse of the future of Oracle
        and how we're infusing new technology in autonomous computing,
        artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain and new forms of human
        interface into our cloud offerings."
    --  "We're doing this to give you, our customers and developers, a canvas on
        which you can paint your vision and your ambitions and dreams, to use
        information technology in a new way, in a fundamentally new way, to
        transform your organization, your companies and the world."
    --  "We're introducing amazing technology in the infrastructure layer. So
        you can get world-class infrastructure delivered to you through a
        browser."
    --  "The vision for platform-as-a-service was to eliminate the next barrier
        to technology adoption by our customers. And that was to eliminate all
        the mundane, manual labor that human beings needed to do in order to use
        Oracle technology."
    --  "Our vision for the human interface for applications is to become
        seamless for humans. No longer is it just web and mobile screens, but
        you could speak to the application. You can interact with it with
        messaging. You can take pictures and we can identify images, compare
        them with other things, and automate transactions."

About Oracle
The Oracle Cloud offers complete SaaS application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class database Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), please visit us at oracle.com.

About Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle OpenWorld, the industry's most important business and technology conference for the past 20 years, hosts tens of thousands of in-person attendees as well as millions online. Dedicated to helping businesses leverage Cloud for their innovation and growth, the conference delivers deep insight into industry trends and breakthroughs driven by technology. Designed for attendees who want to connect, learn, explore and be inspired, Oracle OpenWorld offers more than 2,500 educational sessions led by more than 2,000 customers and partners sharing their experiences, first hand. With hundreds of demos and hands-on labs, plus exhibitions from more than 400 partners and customers from around the world, Oracle OpenWorld has become a showcase for leading cloud technologies, from Cloud Applications to Cloud Platform and Infrastructure. For more information; to register; or to watch Oracle OpenWorld keynotes, sessions, and more, visit www.oracle.com/openworld. Join the Oracle OpenWorld discussion on Twitter.

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