the existing usage levels and proposes a con-
solidation plan.”
The result of the collected new features
and improvements is not an incremental
product release. “We see Oracle Enterprise
Manager 12c as a major step forward,” con-
cludes Topurov.
European Organization for
Nuclear Research (CERN)
cern.ch
Industry: Scientific research
Employees: 2,500 employees plus 10,000
visiting scientists
Oracle products and services: Oracle
Database 11g, Oracle Enterprise Manager,
Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle JRockit Virtual
Edition, Oracle Streams, Oracle Active Data
Guard, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle
Advanced Compression, Storage Tek tape
libraries, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle VM
SNAPSHOTS
MANAGING BUSINESS SERVICES
According to Richard Sarwal, senior vice
president of product development at Oracle,
consolidating and virtualizing an I T infrastructure are important activities, but they
are just the starting point for creating an
enterprise cloud environment. “The long-term goal is to manage cloud resources as
business services rather than just a collection of technical components,” he explains.
“This lets you relate those resources to
users and monitor the performance of their
applications to make sure they are receiving
adequate service levels.”
Such was the motivation for Cerner, one
of the world’s largest healthcare IT com-
panies. The Kansas City, Missouri–based
company currently depends on Oracle
Enterprise Manager 11 g to manage more
than 1,000 client databases associated
with its Millennium healthcare applications—about 18 petabytes
of healthcare data in all. Customers can install Millennium at their
own premises or access the functionality on demand through the
Cerner Works hosting facility.
Cerner solutions are licensed by approximately 9,000 facilities
around the world, including more than
Cerner
cerner.com
Industry: Healthcare
Employees: 8,000
Revenue: US$1.85 billion in 2010
Oracle products and services: Oracle
Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle
Real Application Clusters
Epsilon
epsilon.com
Industry: Marketing services
Employees: 3,000
Revenue: US$613 million in 2010
Oracle products and services: Oracle
Database 11g, Oracle Enterprise Manager,
Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle
Active Data Guard
Total Cloud Control with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 c
Creating Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c was a
three-year project that represents 2 million developer hours. Oracle’s goal with this foundational
product was to automate operations for traditional data centers, virtualized environments, and
cloud computing environments.
“For years Oracle has been enhancing its inte-
grated technology stack with an integrated man-
agement stack,” says Richard Sarwal, senior vice
president of product development at Oracle. “We
build manageability into each product and expose
it in a meaningful way through one integrated
management environment. This philosophy has
driven the creation of total cloud control embod-
ied in Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c: one holistic
tool that helps you set up and manage the entire
cloud lifecycle.”
The cloud lifecycle has three basic phases:
planning/setup, deployment, and optimization.
To assist with planning/setup, Oracle Enterprise
Manager 12c features new discovery capabilities to
identify all the elements of an IT environment, as
well as capacity-planning tools to advise IT profes-
sionals on how to combine that environment into
a shared infrastructure. Oracle’s new management
software also helps administrators determine what
types of services they want to offer—infrastructure
as a service, with basic computing, memory, and
storage capabilities, or higher-level offerings such
as platform as a service.
