OK, so take off your Nehru jacket and let’s get down—or up, because it’s cloud—to business.
“Building and Managing a Cloud Using
The tome—304 pages for the dead-tree version—is written by Madhup Gulati, Adeesh Fulay, and Sudip Datta. Gulati is a Principal Product Manager at Oracle, responsible for Oracle VM server management and cloud management product line. Fulay is a Principal Product Manager for Oracle System Management products. Datta is a Vice President of Product Management for Oracle Systems Management products. He's also one of the Oracle authorities listed in 25 Twitter Feeds Every Oracle User Should Follow.
Through the miracle of online excerpting, there are several way to sample “Building and Managing. . .” before you decide whether to buy the full book. McGraw-Hill has posted the 38-page introductory chapter, here. And
There are also two options if you’d prefer some great, free content covering much of the same ground. We used to call these things “manuals,” but nowadays they read more like computer books than old-fashioned documentation, and that’s a good thing. First up, at a whopping 692 pages—it’s so large it’s got its own part number, E28814-08—is “Oracle Enterprise Manager, Cloud Administration Guide, 12c Release 3 (12.1.0.3).”
If “Building and Managing. . ." is a very fine user’s guide, “Oracle Enterprise Manager. . .” is like a deep-dive, Chilton’s-style service manual.
But wait, there’s more. Whereas E28814-08 presents all 692 pages in a linear PDF, the similarly titled “Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Introduction, 12c Release 3 (12.1.0.3)” hyperlinks all its chapters. (However, it’s definitely a separate doc, because it has a distinct part number: E25353-14.) I recommend you begin with Chapter 2, “New Features In Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c.”
All of the Oracle-published online materials are more or less navigable from this uberpage. Clearly, there’s Venn diagram overlap, both amongst the internal docs, and between the docs and the book. Many of the same developers were obviously involved in both. It’s all good, but if you want my two bitcoins, I’d go with the book and the 692-page, E28814-08 PDF.
Now that class is over, do we have time for some fun? If your idea of a good time involves big data, then there’s still a few days left to register for Oracle’s Big Data at Work live event in New York on August 13. The featured speakers are IT thought-leader Andrew McAfee and Oracle Big Data strategist Paul Sonderegger.
Because Big Data poses big protection woes, here’s an article for you. Storage leader EMC Corp. and Oracle have been partners since 1995. The connection isn’t a talking point, it’s a deep relationship revolving around optimizing Oracle software to run on EMC virtual infrastructure.
Against that backdrop, a worthwhile click is Silicon Angle’s mouthful of a headline, “EMC Chief Database Architect Shares Oracle Data Protection Best Practices.” The meat of the post is a 23-minute video featuring EMC chief database architect Darryl Smith. Dave Vallante, founder of the tech community site wikibon.org, introduces Smith by noting that “the most valuable applications in the world run on Oracle databases.” Smith touches on issues crucial in large-scale deployments, including virtualization, backup, deduping, data compression, and compliance.
If your weekend involves channel surfing (safer than either couch-surfing or bar hopping), then you should click on over to SFGate’s America’s Cup page. There’s lots of video, as well as granular, inside news such as this report that Oracle TEAM USA strategist Tom Slingsby strained his back, but hopes to return soon. (Is he the David Wright of sailing?) To see more great videos, check out the Oracle TEAM USA YouTube channel.
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