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…
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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…
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….
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…
Breaking News – Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is now available
Oracle has released today (April 4, 2023) the new Oracle Database 23c Free (Developer Release). This marks a significant change within the Oracle delivery model of only delivering a free database (as per example XE) after the full version is available to the public. This clearly shows Oracle’s commitment to the developer community, allowing developers…
Playing with the new OCI Full Stack DR – Part 1 – Preparing the Environment
I am very happy to announce the GA of the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solution that the Oracle MAA team has been working very hard to bring to you (Thank you, Suraj Ramesh). Today we will play with the new, Full Stack DR it is a fully managed OCI disaster recovery orchestration and management…
Announcement – Data Guard Mixed Encryption Configuration New Parameter and Behaviour is now available with the DB 19.16 RU
I am very happy to announce that with the new 19.16 RU (July 2022 Release Update) for Oracle Database released last week (Doc ID 2521164.1), Data Guard is now more flexible regarding how it deals with mixed encryption configurations with the introduction of the new TABLESPACE_ENCRYPTION initialization parameter. Previously when having a hybrid DR environment…
Some amazing news – a new adventure in my career is just starting
After 33 years working with Oracle technologies and very close to Oracle (helping with the creation of Oracle Brazil, contracted by Oracle Education, and nearly 15 years in the ACE Program) it is now the right time to join Oracle. From this Thursday (May 19,2022 AEST) I will become Oracle’s new Distinguished Product Manager for Maximum…
My Latin American Tour in March
At March I will be presenting my very successful seminar “Mastering Backup and Recovery” in some countries of Latin America for the very first time. Thank you Panama, Chile and Brazil OUGs for inviting me to your amazing countries! Please, use the following links for registration and also to find more information about the seminar:…