Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
October 15, 2025
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News Flashes
Cloudflare, Inc., a leading connectivity cloud company, announced that its connectivity cloud platform will be available natively on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for customers worldwide—enabling joint customers to leverage Cloudflare's security, performance, and resiliency directly from OCI across hybrid, multi-cloud, and OCI hosted applications.
Fivetran, a global leader in automated data movement, is releasing the Oracle Binary Log Reader, a new replication method within its managed service that enables high-volume, low-latency replication from Oracle databases. Debuting at Oracle AI World, the feature gives enterprises a faster, more reliable way to move critical Oracle data into modern cloud destinations for advanced analytics and AI initiatives, the company said.
Oracle AI Database 26ai architects AI into the core of data management, furthering Oracle's commitment to help customers securely bring AI to all their data, everywhere. According to the company, this milestone advances Oracle's "AI for Data" vision of a next-generation AI-native database with use of AI across the entire data and development stack, including AI Vector Search, AI for Database Management, AI for Data Development, AI for Application Development, and AI for Analytics.
Think About It
Data breaches are a constant, lurking threat in our interconnected world and database administrators are the front-line guardians of their organization's most valuable asset: its data. The modern database environment, with its mix of on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems, can feel like a minefield. Navigating it successfully requires more than just technical skill—it demands a proactive, strategic approach to security.