Well, it is the Empire of enterprise IT... Oracle's Ellison plans 'Star Wars cyber defense' for his second-generation cloud

Welcome, Larry .... WTF kept you away and outside for so long?

Fancy Bare Neural Networking type stuff you can garner and utilise from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06279v3.pdf Thanks, Scott Reed & Nando de Freitas/Google DeepMind London, UK .... https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/10/22/tennis_for_two_at_60/#c_3637197

A key component of the infrastructure is providing a bare-metal server, he said.

This contains none of the database giant's own cloud management code, and ring-fences customer's software into zones on the bare-bones box. If a subscriber is more security conscious, and presumably also cash rich, they can rent one or more such machine just for themselves. These bare-metal servers are controlled separately by an Oracle-powered system. In effect, Oracle has kinda rebranded bare-metal servers as "second generation."

And Larry will know IT's Attractions are Heavy Fuel Heavenly Fuelled.

Aint that correct, Larry, with the Gospel according to Satyrs and Nymphs celebrated in song here ....... Heavy Fuel Dire Straits are a Perverse Invention and Signify Hopeless Manic Desperation

Oracle

TBH, i dont think Oracle's technical capabilities are in question, its Oracle itself.

No-one wants to deal with them unless they absolutely have to.

There a deeply unpleasant company to deal with, especially their sales droids.

AWS moved the hypervisor into a smart NIC. Call it 5th generation cloud

Already today storage virtualization and network virtualization on AWS is done on Smart NICs i.e. outside the computer that the tenant is running on.

If AWS counted every time they re-architected their cloud as a "generation" they are probably at 5th generation by now.

Snigger

as Ellison mentioned the firm’s name more than enough to have Jeff Bezos’ ears burning.

But Bezos giggling

Pot and Kettle Time

"Funny, I didn’t know data in the same pipe costs more depending on which direction it’s going."

But you do know that Oracle DBs cost more depending on which cloud provider they're running on right?

The lack of any mention of Salesfarce as a competitor must annoy the hell out of Bennyhoff and his "first Gen Cloud" sycophants!! Much lolz.

Yep, unhuh.

So you've added all of these wonderful security features. Have they be properly tested? I only ask because when I interviewed with your cloud group in the first part of this year, they were super interested--until I mentioned the importance of testing & asked what test coverage was like. Dropped like a hot potato.