After years of anticipation from customers running mission-critical workloads on-premises, the wait is finally over. Oracle AI Database 26ai (23.26.1) Enterprise is now available for on-premises deployment (Linux x86-64), bringing Oracle’s latest AI-native innovations directly into customer data centers — without compromise. This milestone release marks a major moment for organizations that require the power…
Oracle AI Database 26ai Is Coming On-Prem
Oracle AI Database 26ai: The Future of AI + Data Is Finally Coming On-Premises For years, on-premises Oracle customers have been waiting for the next major leap after Oracle Database 19c. That moment has finally arrived. Oracle has officially announced that Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition for Linux x86-64 will be available on-premises in…
From Las Vegas to the World: Continuing the Mission-Critical Journey
After an incredibly productive and inspiring week at Oracle AI World 2025 in Las Vegas, it’s time to keep the momentum going! It was an honor to present technical sessions, a hands-on lab, and an executive roundtable, and to spend valuable time at the MAA HUB booth meeting customers, partners, and Oracle colleagues from all…
Oracle AI World 2025: Maximize Resilience, Scale, and Availability with the MAA Team
The countdown is on — Oracle AI World 2025 in Las Vegas is almost here! Suppose data resiliency, continuous operations, and mission-critical performance are top priorities for your organization. In that case, the Oracle Mission-Critical Database Product Management Team sessions are the ones you simply can’t afford to miss. From high-impact learning sessions to hands-on…
Introducing the Tech Resilience Show: Inside Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Series
Welcome to the “Tech Resilience Show: Inside Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Series.” I am your host, Francisco Munoz Alvarez. This first episode will highlight a strategic product within MAA that can add high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities to an Oracle Database; of course, we are talking about Oracle Active Data Guard….
Playing with Application Continuity – Fundamentals
Today we will play with an exciting and not very well-known feature within the Oracle Database, called Application Continuity (AC) which is available with the Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle RAC One Node and Oracle Active Data Guard options and it masks outages from end users and applications by recovering the in-flight database sessions…
Playing with various Boot options and Kernels in Oracle Linux
Are you curious about what a boot is and how it works? Look no further! Check out this informative article on Oracle Linux where you can learn about boot options, available kernels, and more. Plus, you’ll get to play with exciting tools and applications that will make your life easier. Discover how to change your…
Playing with Autonomous Data Guard – Protecting your data against any unwanted disaster situation
As you know, implementing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy to adequately protect our data recoverability and availability, plus our business continuity, can be a very stressful experience. What’s worse is that it could take a lot of effort and time to implement it properly. When talking about High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR), it…
2023 APAC Community Tour
The 2023 APAC Community tour is just around the corner. This year, I will present in South Korea, Japan and New Zealand (with a short stop in Singapore for customer visits). Please join me, and let’s talk Oracle; see you soon! – Korea, Seoul – Dec 4 – https://www.onoffmix.com/event/289115– Japan, Tokyo – Dec 6-8 –…
Oracle LAD Community Tour and More
One more year and once again after a few years of not happening due to Covid, getting ready to leave for a new Oracle LAD Community Tour (Ex-Grounbreakers and OTN Tours). This time the tour will go through 10 different countries, but in my case, I will only be participating in 8 of them. Here…