JULY 2019CIOAPPLICATIONSEUROPE.COM8IN MYOPINIONJohannes BauerAutonomous Today, Not TomorrowJOHN ABEL, VICE PRESIDENT, CLOUD AND INNOVATION FOR UK, IRELAND AND ISRAEL AT ORACLEn the past half century, database administrators have come to play an ever more crucial role in business. Tasked with storing, securing and extracting value from the enormous data created by companies and consumers, database administrators are the unsung heroes of our modern digital lifestyle ­ keeping our information organized and secure, so that we can work, play, create and share online. As database administrators will tell you, their task is a complex one ­ and it's certainly one that comes with increasing levels of responsibility. If something goes wrong, it does not result in just a couple of hours of business downtime. In fact, if the function or security of the database is compromised, that is going to substantially affect profitability and corporate reputation. Unplanned downtime costs of approximately US$260,000 per hour across all types of business and the average cost of a data breach tops US$3.5 million. With even more explosive data growth ahead, database management is poised to become more crucial, more costly, and more complex. How can businesses cope? The key will be database automation, enabling enterprise information to be managed more effectively, with less effort. One technology, in particular, is unlocking new levels of time and cost-savings: autonomous. The autonomous platform is an evolution of traditional cloud computing. In each iteration, cloud computing has helped database administrators manage information with more ease and speed. During the early days of Infrastructure-asa-Service, companies saw financial gains of 15 to 25 percent. IJohn Abel
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