American technology major Oracle is looking at automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) with its new Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, the first service based on the the firm’s Autonomous Database.

Termed the world’s first database cloud service that “patches, tunes and updates itself” with no human intervention, Oracle says it will be easy to extract more value from any data with its new offering.

“Today’s digital world is creating data at an explosive rate, and the emergence of Internet of Things data is propelling this further. However, the management of large and growing volumes of data poses many challenges,” Vaibhav Gawde, Head-Sales Consulting, Oracle India, told BusinessLine .

Data warehouses

Stating that the physical data warehouses of the past were great for collecting data across organisations, “be it from banks or financial institutions, retail, or other enterprise, in order to analyse it,” Gawde said companies are not able to keep pace with the explosive growth of data, and secure it from threats.

“Instead of building expensive data warehouses, which is a long-term plan, companies can now start uploading their data directly on the cloud. The Oracle Autonomous Database has been deployed to take over intelligence, and will use AI and ML to deliver highly elastic data management, freeing up humans to seek newer business avenues, undertake deeper analytics and add value to the enterprise,” he said.

The company is also offering new ways to cut the cost associated with data storage and processing. “Since there is lots of data being generated all over the globe, there is the manual cumbersome task to patch, update and upgrade security. The Oracle Autonomous Database has self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing capabilities that automate security processes in the database, even as it keeps the critical infrastructure constantly running.”

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