Hello and welcome back to Whats new in OCI.
Since the launch of our VMware Cloud Service, we’ve been providing a path to public cloud for
customers with computationally intense VMware workloads. Whilst we appreciate that our dense
shapes provide a significant amount of processing power, we’re also aware of the need to support
small and medium sized workloads to avoid under and over provisioning. With our Spring release,
we’re pleased to announce a number of features that include support for flexible standard shapes
with independent scaling of compute and storage. These shapes are powered by third generation
Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors and allow customers to balance cost and performance. As well
as the new shapes, this release includes a beta release of GPU compute for our VMware Solution,
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure certification, VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer certification
and expanded availability across our 42 global regions. These are all available now.
Next up, I’m pleased to share that we have released Oracle Access Governance for OCI.
This is a cloud native service that supports policy reviews across multiple OCI tenancies.
This release helps organizations comply with regulations and protect OCI infrastructure assets.
If you are an administrator, this service will make it easy to monitor access to resources, take
action, and mitigate risks. We know that managing policies and entitlements can be challenging,
but this Access Governance service helps address this by providing comprehensive access control and
governance capabilities. Now over to Kenna.
Thanks Mark! I have two pieces of news to share:
First is the announcement of OCI's Live Migration process, which keeps enterprise workloads up
and running for customers even during routine maintenance events. Our Live migration process
moves Virtual Machines from one physical server to another without any interruption to the running
applications. This process ensures that services remain available to customers while OCI performs
necessary maintenance tasks, such as firmware updates, hardware replacements, or load balancing.
If you're interested in zero downtime for planned maintenance, Increased availability, Improved
efficiency, and cost savings, the blogs linked in the description below will show you how to
check your console to get started, and dive into some technical details of how it all works!
Next up is the release of on demand node cycling for Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (or
OKE), which simplifies the process of updating managed worker nodes in OKE clusters. Previously,
this time-consuming task would require you to manually rotate nodes or develop your own
solutions. With the on-demand node cycling feature, you can now trigger the replacement
of all existing nodes in a node pool with nodes running updated properties. You simply modify the
properties of node pools in the same way that you always have, and then cycle the nodes in
the node pool. This feature makes it easy for you to keep your nodes up to date and secure,
automates the process of updating a fleet of nodes, and gives you flexibility to update
other node pool properties like SSH keys, boot volume size, and custom cloud-init scripts.
That's all for me. Let's hear from Shig next! Thanks Kenna! This month I’d like to share four
new innovations to Autonomous Database that make it easier to query, manage,
share, and scale your data. First, many enterprises have data
distributed across clouds and on-premises, and an integrated view of all that data is critical to
better decision making. Autonomous Database simplifies the multi-cloud data warehouse,
with secure access to object storage in OCI, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud,
as well as direct database connections to Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake,
MongoDB, Apache Hive and PostgreSQL. We’ll also be providing query access to Apache Iceberg tables as
well as integration with AWS Glue, to retrieve data lake schema and metadata automatically.
Second, Data Studio is a new built-in, self-service, no-code user experience
that can help you develop solutions without relying on IT. An intuitive drag-and-drop UI
combined with intelligent automation and support for over 100 data sources greatly
simplifies and shortens the path from data loading and integration to analysis.
Third, Autonomous Data Warehouse’s highly optimized storage is now the same price as
object storage, with up to 20-times faster query performance. With the flexibility to store all
your data for SQL analytics in the database, object stores, or both, you can now rethink
your approach to the data lake. Choose the best architecture based on your requirements.
Finally, Open Data Sharing revolutionizes the way you share data with stakeholders.
Data owners define what data goes into the Share and who can read it. The Share Recipient
can remotely access the centralized data using a variety of tools such as Oracle APEX and PowerBI.
Open Data Sharing ensures the data is secure, governed and always
up-to-date. So no more emailing spreadsheets! To wrap up, I’m very excited to announce our free
Cloud certification program! From June through August, you’ll be eligible to take two Foundation
and two Professional certification exams. You can choose exams in Cloud Infrastructure, Data
Management and Cloud Applications, so we encourage you to explore the Oracle University portal and
take advantage of this opportunity to showcase your Oracle Cloud knowledge and skills!
That’s all for now. We strive to keep you updated with top news on OCI each month, so if you enjoyed
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