SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ORACLE
OPENWORLD -- Oracle today marked a major milestone
in the company's autonomous strategy with the availability of
Oracle Autonomous Linux. Oracle Autonomous Linux, along with the
new Oracle OS Management Service, is the first and only autonomous
operating environment that eliminates complexity and human
error to deliver unprecedented cost savings, security, and
availability for customers.
Keeping systems patched and secure is one of the biggest ongoing
challenges faced by IT today. Tasks can be tedious and error prone,
and extremely difficult to manage in large-scale cloud
environments. With Oracle Autonomous Linux, customers can rely on
autonomous capabilities to help ensure their systems are secure and
highly available to help prevent cyberattacks.
"Oracle Autonomous Linux builds on Oracle's proven history of
delivering Linux with extreme performance, reliability, and
security to run the most demanding enterprise applications,"
said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of operating systems
and virtualization engineering, Oracle. "Today we are taking the
next step in our autonomous strategy with Oracle Autonomous Linux,
providing a rich set of capabilities to help our customers
significantly improve reliability and protect their systems from
cyberthreats."
Introducing Oracle OS Management Service
Along with
Oracle Autonomous Linux, Oracle introduced Oracle OS Management
Service, a highly available Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
component that delivers control and visibility over systems whether
they run Autonomous Linux, Linux, or Windows. Combined with
resource governance policies, OS Management Service, via the Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure console or APIs, also enables users to
automate capabilities that will execute common management tasks for
Linux systems, including patch and package management, security and
compliance reporting, and configuration management. It can be
further automated with other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services
like auto-scaling as workloads need to grow or shrink to meet
elastic demand.
Oracle Autonomous Linux, in conjunction with Oracle OS
Management Service, uses advanced machine learning and autonomous
capabilities to deliver unprecedented cost savings, security, and
availability and frees up critical IT resources to tackle more
strategic initiatives.
- Eliminate manual OS management – World's first
autonomous operating system in the cloud to deliver automated
patching, updates, and tuning without human intervention. Based on
a preconfigured Oracle Linux image; automated daily package
updates; enhanced OS parameter tuning and OS diagnostics
gathering.
- Deliver automatic, in-depth protection at all levels –
100 percent hands-off automatic security updates daily to the Linux
kernel and key user space libraries. This requires no downtime
along with protection from both external attacks and malicious
internal users. Known Exploit Detection provides automated alerts
if anyone attempts to exploit a vulnerability that has been patched
by Oracle.
- Provide always-on availability – Includes automated
patching and upgrades while the system is running, eliminating
unnecessary downtime for users and the system.
Oracle Autonomous Linux and Oracle OS Management Services are
included with Oracle Premier Support at no extra charge with Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure compute services. Combined with Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure's other cost advantages, most Linux workload
customers can expect to have 30-50 percent TCO savings versus both
on-premise and other cloud vendors over five years.
"Adding autonomous capabilities to the operating system layer,
with future plans to expand beyond infrastructure software, goes
straight after the OpEx challenges nearly all customers face
today," said Al Gillen, Group VP,
Software Development and Open Source, IDC. "This capability
effectively turns Oracle Linux into a service, freeing customers to
focus their IT resources on application and user experience, where
they can deliver true competitive differentiation."
Oracle Linux has a long history of leadership, beginning in 1998
when Oracle introduced the first commercial relational database for
Linux. With Oracle Autonomous Linux the company takes another major
step in Linux innovation. Oracle Autonomous Linux is based on
the proven Oracle Linux operating environment to deliver extreme
performance, reliability, and security to run the most demanding
enterprise applications. Oracle Linux, which powers Oracle Cloud
and Oracle Engineered Systems, is used extensively by tens of
thousands of customers globally, and thousands of ISVs certify
their software to run on Oracle Linux.
Additional Resources:
- Learn more about Oracle Autonomous Linux
- Read the Oracle Autonomous Linux blog
- Follow Oracle Linux on blog, Twitter, Facebook
About Oracle
The Oracle Cloud offers a
complete suite of integrated applications for Sales,
Service, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and
Manufacturing, plus Highly Automated and Secure Generation 2
Infrastructure featuring the Oracle Autonomous Database. For
more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us
at oracle.com.
About Oracle
OpenWorld
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technology conference for more than 20 years, hosts tens of
thousands of in-person attendees as well as millions online.
Dedicated to helping businesses leverage cloud for their innovation
and growth, the conference delivers deep insight into industry
trends and breakthroughs driven by technology. With thousands of
sessions, demos and hands-on labs, plus exhibitions from more than
250 partners and customers from around the world, Oracle OpenWorld
has become a showcase for leading cloud technologies, from Cloud
Applications to Infrastructure. For registration, live keynotes,
session details, news and more,
visit www.oracle.com/openworld or www.oracle.com/newsroom.
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