Oracle Releases Enterprise Manager 12c for Private Cloud Management

As the software giant aggressively pushes its way farther into the cloud, Oracle (News - Alert) has announced general availability of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c – the third release of the company’s enterprise cloud management console, which comes with new workflow capabilities and new connectors for managing additional Oracle products and systems.

While cloud adoption is on the rise across industries, it can be difficult for private and public cloud service providers to take full advantage of cloud because of inefficiencies in IT management. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 3 is designed to address these challenges with new capabilities for managing infrastructure, middleware and applications that allow IT service providers to reduce the costs and complexity of their cloud and enterprise IT environments.

The new release includes resources for deploying and managing business applications in an enterprise private cloud, such as platform as a service (PaaS), enhanced business application management, and integrated hardware-software management for engineered systems such as Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, according to Sushil Kumar, vice president of Product Strategy and Business Development at Oracle.

“As organizations are increasingly deploying clouds, cloud service providers are facing a number of management challenges,” Kumar said in a statement. “With these new enhanced features we are enabling cloud service providers to increase the efficiency and agility of their cloud environments. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 3 advances the state of the art in cloud management for service providers.”

The new Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 3 capabilities include the following:

• Richer Management for Cloud and Engineered Systems: Simplified Oracle Exadata Database Machine management with pre-created plans for resource management and support for multi-rack configurations helps administrators easily scale from managing a single Oracle Exadata machine to racks of multiple machines.
• Expanded Middleware and Application Management Capabilities: An enhanced management console allows for managing Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle GlassFish Server and Oracle Tuxedo from a single pane. By taking advantage of a common platform for performance management, process control and configuration management, administrators can reduce the time and effort in managing rich, large scale Oracle Fusion Middleware environments.
• Expanded Ecosystem: Developed by Oracle and Oracle Partners, the Oracle Enterprise Manager Extensibility Exchange now offers a catalog of over 125 Enterprise Manager extensions, including plug-ins and management connectors.
• Efficiency gains through enhancements to the underlying management framework.

The original release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c – which came on the market in late 2011 – was designed to combine management of the full Oracle stack with enterprise cloud lifecycle management. 12c was the first product in Oracle’s portfolio numbered “12c” where the “c” stands for Oracle’s significant investments in cloud-ready products.

In related news, Oracle has buried the proverbial hatchet with longtime competitors Microsoft and Salesforce.com (News - Alert) with partnerships aimed at boosting the company’s cloud services for businesses moving their software online.