Preface

I would like to extend a warm welcome all readers this new book, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos.

You are about to enter the exciting and wonderful world of Enterprise Manager, Oracle's premium product for management of the Oracle stack, right from the application layer down to disk level.

If you have used Enterprise Manager before and are aware of its capabilities, this will be a good primer for learning the brand new capabilities of the new version. For people who want to be introduced to Enterprise Manager for the first time, this will be a whole new world drawn from my professional experience of many years in the IT industry, written in easytounderstand English.

I have included a number of advanced topics that demonstrate how Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c aids in database performance anagement, onfiguration anagement, ecurity ompliance, utomated rovisioning, utomated atching and atabase hange anagement. You will also learn how Cloud Control 12c allows Exadata atabase achine onitoring and anagement, est ata anagement for subsetting of large databases, ensitive ata e-identification using ata asking. This is followed by various reallife examples and case studies of actual Oracle customers to show how they have benefited from using Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Sit back and enjoy