Larry Ellison On The Main Reason You Need An 'Autonomous Cloud'--Data Security

SAN FRANCISCO--Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison laid out his vision for the "world's first truly autonomous cloud," a vision that takes the concept behind trends such as self-driving cars and planes and applies it to cloud computing. The result is Oracle database, infrastructure, and other IT services that are more secure, reliable, flexible, and cost-efficient than competing cloud services. During his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld on September 16, Ellison explained how the most important benefits from autonomous systems will come from eliminating human errors. In cars, eliminating such errors avoids accidents, he said. In technology, it eliminates common user errors that expose data to hackers. Ellison focused on two pillars of the company's autonomous cloud strategy: Oracle Autonomous Database and Generation 2 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.