Oracle offers cloud management platform

BANGALORE, INDIA: With its new 'c' lettered management suite, Enterprise Manager 12c, Oracle has finally announced its foray into cloud.

The company launched a new Enterprise Manager solution that brings with it over 200 new features and 500 enhancements to combine management of full Oracle stack, including complete cloud lifecycle management for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, integrated cloud stack management, and business driven application management to build public or private cloud.

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The cloud life cycle management comes with new capabilities such as cloud set-up and configuration, policy-driven resource management, self-service access, metering and chargeback.

The integrated cloud stack management includes Oracle's entire stack ranging from Fusion applications, middleware, database and hardware, as well as non-Oracle technologies.

Sushil Kumar, vice president, product strategy and business development, Oracle, said: "Although cloud computing has become more distilled and mature today, enterprises are still not ready to forgo mission critical applications to be managed on it. It is only the applications that sit on the fringe that are usually put on cloud. However, Oracle assures that with its new Enterprise Manager, enterprises can even take their mission critical applications to cloud as it provides data encryption at all levels along with features such as data masking, etc."

Its other features include cloud management across physical and virtual environments for x86 as well as SPARC architectures, and single, integrated console for testing, deploying, operating, monitoring, diagnosing, and troubleshooting IT environments.

The new release comes with connectors and plug-ins to integrate third-party systems Cisco and Juniper firewall and Netapp storage, and these connectors enable enterprise manager to share information with other management systems such as IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter and HP Openview.

It is integrated with Oracle VM 3.0, which enables administrators to automatically plan and provision cloud environments incorporating VMs, resource pools and zones and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, which helps application developers model and package complex, multi-tier applications for self-service consumption.

Dhruv Singhal, senior director, Fusion Middleware, sales consulting, Oracle India, said that Indian IT and consulting major Wipro is also using this stack of product to build public cloud and they also have a couple of other customers from ITeS, telecom and FSI sectors.