In this interview from Oracle Data Deep Dive NYC 2026, Juan Loaiza, executive vice president of Oracle database technologies at Oracle Corp., joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante to discuss how Oracle is positioning the database as the center of gravity for enterprise agentic AI. Loaiza opens with a striking analogy: just as AI can now generate 20,000 lines of code in 20 minutes, the real challenge is no longer building — it's trusting what was built. He explains how Oracle is engineering that trust directly into the database layer, ensuring agents handle data atomically, prevent leakage and respect business rules. Loaiza also details the architectural philosophy behind Oracle's general-purpose approach — what he calls "winning the Olympics" — building specialized algorithms for each data type and workload on a single, proven foundation rather than proliferating siloed databases.

The conversation also explores the breadth of Oracle's latest AI database announcements. Loaiza breaks down the Unified Agent Memory Core, which enables agents to share persistent, cross-type memory — spanning relational, document, graph and vector data — as multi-agent systems grow more complex. He details two tiers of enhanced mission-critical availability: a platinum tier delivering disaster recovery four to five times faster and node failover up to ten times faster, and a diamond tier achieving zero data loss failover in under three seconds. On security, Loaiza highlights Oracle's quantum-safe encryption and a new database-native layer that scopes each AI agent's access to only the authenticated user's data — closing the leakage risk introduced when agents bypass the traditional application tier. From Vectors on Ice — extending Apache Iceberg with native vector indexing across open data lakes — to a unified product that handles real-time OLTP and large-scale analytics from a single codebase, Loaiza outlines why Oracle is built to serve as the foundational infrastructure for the AI era.

In this interview from Oracle Data Deep Dive NYC 2026, Ashish Ray, senior vice president of product management at Oracle, joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante to discuss how the transition to agentic AI is raising the bar on mission-critical database availability, resilience and security. Ray explains how Oracle AI Database 26AI delivers high availability and near-zero failover times by default — requiring no application changes from customers. He breaks down Oracle's tiered resilience framework, where the platinum tier reduces failover to roughly 20 seconds and the diamond tier achieves near-instant recovery under three seconds, both powered by deep kernel-level optimizations across redo generation, transport and apply. With Exadata providing the underlying hardware foundation, Ray underscores how hardware and software engineered in tandem produce outcomes greater than either achieves alone.

Key themes include Oracle's Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA), which replaces traditional weekly full-backup cycles with an incremental-forever model that continuously tracks database changes to reduce recovery point objectives toward zero. Ray also details how Oracle's multicloud strategy delivers the same kernel, the same performance and the same predictable SLAs across on-premises deployments, OCI and partner clouds including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud — allowing enterprises to modernize without disruption or compromise. He makes clear that C-level leaders cannot treat agentic AI infrastructure and mission-critical databases as separate concerns: agentic workloads making microsecond decisions against bottlenecked systems will cascade failures across entire workflows. From the incremental-forever recovery model to Data Guard Fast Sync's synchronous transport capabilities, Ray outlines why Oracle's decades of enterprise mission-critical engineering uniquely position it to deliver true zero data loss at scale.

In this interview from Oracle Data Deep Dive NYC 2026, Tirthankar Lahiri, senior vice president of mission-critical data and AI engines at Oracle, joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante to discuss how embedding agentic AI capabilities directly into the database is helping enterprises move beyond pilots to production-scale AI deployments. Lahiri explains how the transition from RAG-based chatbots to multi-step agentic workflows is reshaping data architecture requirements. He outlines Oracle's strategy of co-locating agentic processing with data to eliminate fragmentation, reduce round trips and ensure agents act on current, consistent information. Central to this approach is the Unified Memory Core — allowing short-term, medium-term and long-term memory constructs to be derived directly from existing database data, removing the need for separate storage systems for each memory type.

The conversation also explores how Oracle is tackling the security risks unique to agentic environments. Lahiri introduces "deep data security," a policy-based approach that enforces identity-aware access controls at the data layer rather than the application tier — making it resilient to prompt injection, malformed queries and unauthorized access regardless of how an agent enters the system. He details new offerings including the AI Database Private Agent Factory, the Private AI Services Container for fully air-gapped deployments and Trusted Answer Search, which uses vector search rather than LLMs to guarantee hallucination-free reporting. From the "Vectors on Ice" capability for vectorized access to Apache Iceberg tables to a commitment to making all of these capabilities available at no additional cost, Lahiri provides a roadmap for how organizations can make the database the operational hub of their AI strategy.