This interview examines Oracle data availability and resilience for agentic artificial intelligence, AI, focusing on Oracle AI Database 26AI, platinum and diamond availability tiers, Exadata integration, zero data loss capabilities and Oracle’s multi-cloud strategy for mission-critical workloads. It is recorded at Oracle Data Deep Dive 2026 at the New York Stock Exchange.
Ashish Ray of Oracle is senior vice president, product management. Ray appears with host Dave Vellante of theCUBE Research to unpack Oracle’s approach to mission-critical data infrastructure. They draw on product management experience to explain database-level resilience, built-in security and kernel optimizations that reduce failover times.
Topics include database-level resilience, upgrades to Oracle AI Database 26AI without application changes, Exadata’s role in maximum availability architecture, MAA, and support for agentic AI in enterprise environments. Ray emphasizes resilience and security baked into the database, seamless upgrades without application changes and dramatically reduced failover times—platinum under 20 seconds and diamond near-instant under three seconds. They highlight Exadata as essential to MAA and recommend that C-level leaders prioritize scalable high-performance data infrastructure to reliably support agentic AI and distributed resilience.
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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...Read more
