OOW18 Highlight: You focus on the above, we focus on the below

Larry went through so much in his keynote, especially the elements about security and generation 2 cloud.

I was thinking how I could write all the technical announcements. Then I decided to take a different approach, explain the presentation in business benefit.

Thomas Edison said, “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration”. This is so true.

Companies are getting attacks from the unknown competitor who are trying to disrupt the market with new solutions while trying to keep the lights on.

John (e.g. me) said "Autonomous is the technology that lets you focus on the inspiration while we focus on the perspiration"

A few years ago, I ran a project called OpenHack which was a competition to try to break our database on Linux. I put so much effort in patching, hardening. securing connections, reviewing code, etc. What I would do now is switch on Autonomous and use.

Another example; When I wrote my security book for Oracle Press, I had to use 200+ customer engagements of experience to cover everything in 600+ pages. But if you are agile and want business solutions, you cannot afford to wait.

Using autonomous is like having a world expert 24 hour a day, 7 days a week and all year. This is so valuable to have a safe, secure and scalable business

We need to consider what is important and what is “just use”. Focus the developers and the business on the problem for the benefit, let the autonomous robots focus on keeping you safe.

So if at OOW, have a great day and if you are not, still have a great day or evening. Wishing you all the best and a happy Tuesday.