Oracle Management Cloud – An Overview

Most organizations are transforming themselves to digital enterprises, and IT plays a key role in this transformation. The ways applications are built, delivered, and consumed have significantly changed in the last few years. Organizations have adopted agile methodologies and delivering applications very rapidly, adopted hybrid Cloud, and many of the applications are now consumed from mobile devices. This transition poses a lot of challenges to IT Organizations, and they need new generation tools that can manage their applications and infrastructure.

Oracle Management Cloud is a suite of next generation integrated monitoring, management, and analytics solution for IT organizations that enables a real-time, collaborative environment in which all stakeholders have a clear end-to-end view to the applications and technologies that support business services. Oracle Management Cloud is a part of Oracle Cloud (platform) offerings.

Top Concerns for DevOps/IT Ops

The following figure shows the top concerns for DevOps/IT Ops.

Many organizations lose a lot of revenue and credibility due to unplanned application outages and they spend a lot of expensive hours in war rooms instead of focusing on innovation. Oracle Management Cloud aims to remove the unnecessary time spent in War Rooms by eliminating multiple information silos in management that exist across end user, applications, infrastructure, and machine data.

Oracle Management Cloud is designed for modern heterogeneous IT environment running either Oracle or non-Oracle software/infrastructure. It supports applications either deployed in on-premises, private cloud, Oracle Public Cloud or third-party cloud services.

Following are the three services available now:

I have summarized the high-level features supported by these services. I will write more about these services in future blogs.

Cloud Service	Persona	Features
Application Performance Monitoring	DevOps IT Ops Developer App Support	End User Monitoring Server Request Performance Application Topologies Integrated Log Visibility Integration with Analytics
Log Analytics	DevOps IT Ops (DBA, MW Admin, Sys Admin) Developer App Support Business	Light Touch Data Aggregation of all kinds of machine data Topology-Aware Exploration Machine Learning APM Integration Dashboards
IT Analytics	Business Analyst Capacity manager IT Ops DevOps	Analyze Resource Usage Discover Systemic or common performance problems Plan for the Future

Key Benefits

 Following are some of the few key benefits that you can get from Oracle Management Cloud:

• Gain 360-degree insight into the performance, availability, and capacity of your applications and infrastructure investments
•  Find and fix application issues fast by eliminating the unnecessary complex manual application monitoring processes and multiple toolsets
• Improve efficiency of IT organizations by reducing dependence on large groups of IT staff participating in war rooms
• Search, explore, and correlate machine data data to troubleshoot problems faster, derive operational and business insight, and make better decisions.
• Makes IT organizations proactive by identifying systemic problems and capacity issues
• Reduce Cost of Operations as these services are offered in the cloud and customers do not have to maintain any underlying infrastructure 

Resources

Here are links to few resources if you want to learn about Oracle Management Cloud

• Introduction to Oracle Management Cloud 
• Oracle Cloud Management Demo 
• Oracle Management Cloud eBook

My OOW Session: IT Analytics for DBAs and Middleware Administrators

I have been presenting at Oracle Open World for past 15 years. I will be speaking at Oracle Open World 2015 again. My session is on a completely different topic and I will be showcasing an exciting new Cloud Service.  If you are a DBA or WebLogic Administrator and you are attending Oracle Open World 2015, you probably do not want to miss this exciting session!

You can use this following link to register to my session.

Oracle ITAnalytics Cloud Service: Operational Insight for Your Database and MiddlewareEstate [CON9752]

Tuesday, Oct 27, 5:15 p.m. | Moscone South—300

DBAs and middleware administrators need tools that go beyond monitoring to analyze their application infrastructure and get insight on resource capacity and performance bottlenecks to improve application performance and availability. Come to this session to learn about Oracle IT Analytics Cloud Service, the next-generation management cloud service built on a unified data platform and designed to help DBAs and middleware administrators plan for capacity based on real workloads and identify and remediate common problems across their database and application servers.

Oracle Management Cloud Launch Event

Wow… I have not blogged for a while. I joined back Oracle last year to work on an exciting new product named OracleManagement Cloud.  Oracle Management Cloud will be unveiled during Oracle World 2015.  If you are attending Oracle Open World 2015, don’t miss the opportunity to attend the exciting launch event on October 27, 2015 (Tuesday) 11am, presented by our SVP, Prakash Ramamurthy.

GEN9778 - Oracle Management Cloud: Real-Time Monitoring, Log, & IT Operations Analytics

Tuesday, October 27 at 11AM in Moscone South Room 102

Here you can find more about the launch event and Oracle Management Cloud.

Register for this event here