Oracle Expands Cloud Autonomy, Data Centers & SLAsOracle Expands Cloud Autonomy, Data Centers & SLAs

Oracle is expanding the autonomous capabilities of its cloud platform this week, as well as opening new regions, and providing uptime guarantees.

Following on its announcement of the Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) Autonomous Database in September, the company on Monday expanded its Oracle Cloud Platform Autonomous Services to all its Oracle Cloud Platform services. As with the database, the cloud platform now automatically handles security and maintenance functions that previously required human intervention, including tuning, patching, backups and upgrades. (See Upcoming Oracle DB Hits All Buzzwords, Oracle's Ellison: Amazon & SAP Use Our Database Because We're Better and Oracle's Ellison: We'll Beat Amazon Cloud Pricing by Half.)

Oracle Cloud Platform is incorporating additional autonomous capabilities specific to application development, mobile and bots, app and data integration, analytics, security and management, the company says.

"The future of tomorrow's successful enterprise IT organization is in full end-to-end automation," Thomas Kurian, Oracle president of product development, said in a statement from Oracle CloudWorld in New York. "At Oracle, we are making this a reality." (See Oracle Extends Autonomous Capabilities Across Cloud Platform.)

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