India, Sept. 19 -- As enterprises put more data in the cloud, the race is on among traditional vendors to ramp their offerings to compete against the giants like AWS. At Oracle OpenWorld this week, cloud expansion and capabilities made up a big part of the database company's message, delivered in keynotes from founder, chairman, and CTO Larry Ellison and other executives over the course of the event.

For instance, Ellison announced the launch of four new cloud regions across four continents in an expansion of its cloud offerings. Plus, he said that the "autonomous" features of the self-configuring Oracle cloud would prevent the kind of data breaches enabled by Capital One's misconfiguration in AWS.

But while it's a giant in the database...