—New Partner Plug-ins Increase Management Capabilities of Heterogeneous IT Resources—
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., March 1, 2007 — Oracle today announced the availability of seven new Management Plug-ins for Oracle® Enterprise Manager 10g developed by BEZ Systems, Blue Lane, Citrix Systems, Egenera, Nortel, Onaro and Pillar Data Systems. These plug-ins extend the capabilities of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g to help customers monitor and manage Oracle and non-Oracle applications as well as infrastructure software and systems more efficiently through a single, integrated management solution.
Introduced in October 2005, the Oracle Enterprise Manager Partner offering provides an opportunity for partners to work closely with Oracle to provide enhanced solutions that increase the value of Oracle's management solution. To date, Oracle and its partners have delivered 24 plug-ins to extend the management capabilities of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g. With greater insight into the performance of third-party products, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g offers users an integrated Web-based solution to improve application and system availability and performance while helping to reduce the cost and complexity of systems management. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g delivers administration, monitoring, and active management capabilities for Oracle and non-Oracle applications as well as infrastructure components including databases, middleware, host/operating systems and network and storage devices.
"We have worked together closely with our partners to develop a broad range of effective and easy-to-use management solutions for our joint customers," said Richard Sarwal, senior vice president of systems management products, Oracle. "We're committed to continuing to foster relationships with industry leaders to improve the monitoring and management of our customers' IT systems.
Oracle Partners Deliver Enhanced Oracle Enterprise Manager Solutions
Available today through the partners are new plug-ins that enable Oracle Enterprise Manager to feature diagnostic and management capabilities for:
- BEZ BEZProphet — plug-in enables enterprise grid operators and administrators to perform predictive performance management directly from the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control;
- Blue Lane PatchPoint Manager — plug-in provides joint customers an integrated tool for monitoring application and server vulnerabilities as well as security patch coverage;
- Citrix Presentation Server — plug-in enables users to monitor the health of Citrix Presentation Server installations from within Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g;
- Egenera BladeFrame® System — plug-in integrates with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g to simplify the management of Oracle infrastructure software running on Egenera hardware through a seamless, single point of management control;
- Nortel Application Switch — plug-in monitors Nortel Application Switches, simplifying network management for joint customers;
- Onaro SANScreen — plug-in provides a heterogeneous, service-centric view of storage from within Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g; and,
- Pillar Data Systems Axiom — plug-in allows administrators to monitor one or more instances of the Pillar Axiom 500 system for storage management from within Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g.
For more information about Management Plug-ins and Connectors for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, go to: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/extensions/index.html.
Working to Build Broad Support for Leading IT Infrastructure Products
Partners engage with Oracle to develop Management Plug-ins and Connectors, increasing the breadth and depth of infrastructure software components that can be monitored using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g and helping to improve business results through higher quality of service. Potential partners can access details and requirements via Oracle PartnerNetwork Product Area Focus for Oracle Enterprise Manager at: http://www.oracle.com/partners/home/pf/global/emgc/unauth/index.html.
About Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, an industry-leading family of management products, is a comprehensive application and system management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g manages packaged and custom applications and wide variety of IT infrastructure, including Oracle and non-Oracle technologies. With a broad set of administration, configuration management, provisioning, end-to-end monitoring, service level management, and security capabilities, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g helps reduce the cost of ownership of enterprise applications and their dependent IT resources.
About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 19,000 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle qualify for the Oracle Certified Partner levels. http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Partner Quote Sheet
BEZ Systems
"BEZProphet's predictive performance capabilities and advanced performance analytics are great complements to Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g," said Randy Arseneau, vice president of Product Marketing at BEZ Systems. "Many of our customers and prospects are standardizing on Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g and have been encouraging us to provide tighter integration. Now they can utilize application performance data from a trusted source and eliminate the overhead of redundant data capture while increasing both the quality and timeliness of their decision making."
Blue Lane Technologies
"Enterprises need advanced solutions for protecting their databases from remote attacks," said Allwyn Sequeira, vice president of engineering and operations at Blue Lane Technologies. "Blue Lane's PatchPoint plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g provides our mutual customers with enhanced awareness about security vulnerabilities on their servers."
Citrix
"As the global leader and most trusted name in application delivery, Citrix is committed to delivering high-performance, secure access to applications and information to its customers," said David Jones, Corporate vice president, Business Development, Citrix. "By partnering with Oracle, Citrix and Oracle make it easier for joint customers to monitor and manage the health of enterprise grid environments. With features like auto-discovery, the Citrix Presentation Server Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g maximizes the productivity of system administrators while reducing system costs and improving service levels."
Egenera
"The combination of Oracle running on Egenera continues to generate strong business value for enterprise customers — as evidenced by the number of large organizations running our joint solutions," said Kathy Yenke, vice president of Business Alliances at Egenera. "The introduction of Egenera's Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g gives customers the flexibility, agility and proven abilities of the Egenera BladeFrame system with a seamless single point of management control from Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g."
Nortel
"Nortel's award winning application switch is ideal for balancing, accelerating and securing data in Oracle environments," said Wassim Tawbi, director of Security and Application Intelligence, Nortel. "Nortel's support for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g is a sign of our commitment to provide world-class management tools for our products. By joining forces with Oracle and taking advantage of the Nortel Application Switches Open API development environment, Nortel was able to deliver a powerful and easy to use tool for managing network traffic."
Onaro
"Networked storage environments are typically a black hole to the rest of the IT service delivery chain," said Assaf Levy, VP of Product Management at Onaro. "This is especially true for DBAs and other application managers who rely heavily on networked storage yet have little visibility into the services delivered by the storage environment. Onaro's storage plug-in combined with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g provides IT teams with the right amount of actionable storage information to improve operating efficiencies and minimize downtime."
Pillar Data Systems
"Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g has taken a very large step forward in delivering the promise of grid computing," said Wendell Wilson, vice president of worldwide marketing, Pillar Data Systems. "Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g's single management console coupled with the Pillar Data Systems Axiom Storage System extends our leadership position in driving simplicity for our customers. CIOs are tired of broken promises of tiered physical storage strategies; they're just too complex and costly to manage. The combination of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g and Pillar's ability to consolidate the storage infrastructure uniquely delivers on the promises of virtualizing the Storage Grid, thereby eliminating the unnecessary cost and complexity of data storage."
