Oracle looks to open up data access in the era of AI – News

In an era where artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping digital infrastructure, Oracle Corp. is reimagining the very foundation of enterprise computing — the database.

From AI-infused operations to lightning-fast data recovery, Oracle is baking intelligence into its systems to meet escalating demands for speed, flexibility and security.

“We run most of the mission-critical systems in the world,” said Juan Loaiza (pictured), executive vice president of mission-critical database technologies at Oracle Corp. “If we stop running, hospitals stop running, airlines stop running, stock exchanges stop running, banking stops running, retail, everything … and the threats are constantly changing. They’re constantly increasing. There’s a lot of concern now about AI attacks.”

Loaiza spoke with theCUBE’s Dave Vellante as part of theCUBE + NYSE Wired Mixture of Experts Series. They discussed data recovery practices and Oracle’s relationship with AI.

Oracle transforms data access

As AI attacks increase, Oracle has made updates to its engineered data protection solution, Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance. In some cases, starting from ground zero and rebuilding as fast as possible is the only solution, according to Loaiza.

“Worst case, you have to erase everything,” he said. “You’ve got to be back online as quickly as possible. You need an ultra-fast recovery, ultra-fast restore of 10, hundreds petabytes of data. You have giant amounts of data, you need to get back online; how do you restore the good copy of the data in less than one, two hours at most with this gigantic amount of data?”

At the last CloudWorld event, Oracle said it was embracing multicloud. It has made good on that promise. Oracle continues to be the only company enabling users to access “premier data products everywhere,” according to Loaiza. One capability he is most excited about is JSON Relational Duality, which makes it possible to access data in any form — whether it be graphs, documents or tables.

“This is a radical new thing that no one else has ever done before, and I firmly believe it’s the future of the entire industry because nobody wants to pick one model and then have all the limitations of that model,” he said. “You want all three, and it’s the same data. You get native APIs, and you can both read and write the data in any model you want.”

Relational duality also makes agentic AI easier, since it smooths the path for models trying to access data. Oracle does not have a proprietary AI model, instead staying compatible with models from any of the hyperscalers — but has incorporated AI into its system, Loaiza explained.

“We’re baking AI directly into our Oracle database,” he said. “You can run any kind of AI operation directly against the data inside the database where it gets the fastest, basically instantaneous access to the data. There’s so many things that are going to benefit from AI, but a big one’s going to be you no longer need to speak the language of databases. The database will speak your language.”

Here is the complete video interview with Oracle’s Juan Loaiza, part of theCUBE + NYSE Wired Mixture of Experts Series:

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