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Installing Standalone Agents in Oracle Management Cloud

Drive DevOps Agility with Oracle Cloud Platform

Free DevOps MOOC

Learn how Oracle’s tools and solutions make application lifecycle faster and predictable for both development and operations using Oracle Developer Cloud Service.
http://bit.ly/2h5L2Kc

Getting Started with Chatbots

In Getting Started with Chatbots, Tamer Qumhieh provides a step-by-step guide on how to get started with chatbots by building a Facebook chatbot that is implemented using Node.js running on Oracle Application Cloud Service.

Cloud Stack Manager Console

A new Cloud Stack Manager console and template to create both DBCS and JCS in a single operation was introduced in 16.4.5 release





See this tutorial

Simplified Create Wizard

With 16.4.5 release, a simplified "create wizard" is now available.

Oracle Management Cloud 16.4.5

Oracle Management Cloud 16.4.5 has been released this weekend.
Again, many updates in this release!

Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service Demo

Oracle Code

Oracle Container Cloud Service now Available!

Oracle Container Cloud Service provides an easy and quick way to create enterprise-grade container infrastructures.

It delivers comprehensive tooling to compose, deploy, orchestrate and manage Docker container-based applications on Oracle Public Cloud for Dev, Dev/Test, DevOps, and Cloud Native use cases.

Auto-scaling in Java Cloud Service

Auto-scaling can now be configured in JCS to automatically scale a cluster in or out, based on CPU utilization, as explained in About Automatic Scaling in Using Oracle Java Cloud Service.

Unified Platform Drives Better Security

Lights-out Monitoring with Oracle Management Cloud

Introduction to Oracle Management Cloud

Webcast - Docker Containers in the Cloud

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2016
Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour
Registration : https://goo.gl/9yAVap

Oracle Database 12.2 (Cloud First)

Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1) is now available.

Test it on Oracle Cloud !

Corente now support IP Networks

A new Corente Services Gateway image has been released to support IP Networks. 
An example topology using SDN and Corente is illustrated below

Backup Service in EMEA

The volume Backup Service, which allows scheduled backups of data volumes, is available in EMEA.
Backup Service documentation is available here.

opc-init and the new OPC Agent

An updated version of opc-init has been released to Oracle Cloud Downloads. 
This version of opc-init includes support for the new  OPC Agent, which provides real time guest level metrics to the Oracle Cloud Monitoring service. 
This agent will initially support providing guest memory utilization to the monitoring service and which will be used by PSM to provide additional control over PaaS auto-scaling. 

OPC Agent documentation is available here.

Command Line Interface Updated

An updated version of the oracle-compute CLI has been posted to Oracle Cloud Downloads.
This version of the CLI adds support for IP Networks to make managing IP Networks from scripts or otherwise outside of the UI simple.

Webcast: Advances in Oracle Management Cloud

See how this next-generation suite of systems management cloud services is designed for managing heterogeneous, multicloud applications of today and tomorrow.
Register today!
  

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2016
Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time

Software Defined Networking Phase 1

The software defined networking solution, now available in Oracle Compute, enables end users to create arbitrary network topologies within their cloud account.

Complex topologies such as this are now possible:

IP Network documentation is available here.

Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Service

With the latest Oracle Management Cloud Release, Oracle introduced the Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Service.




Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Service monitors the status and health of your entire IT infrastructure from a single platform. Proactive monitoring across tiers enables administrators to be alerted on issues, troubleshoot and resolve these before they impact end users.

Oracle Management Cloud 16.4.1

Oracle Management Cloud 16.4.1 has been released this weekend !
Many updates in this release :

• Application Performance Monitoring:
• Automatic Stack Traces on Faulty Request Samples
• Automatic Tread Sampling on Slow Request Samples
• Manual JavaScript Page 
• Node.JS applications Monitoring
• Ajax call diagnostics flow
• IT Analytics:
• Extensible support for Non Oracle DBs & Application Servers
• New Enterprise Health Dashboard 
• Log Analytics:
• Topology - Log Exploration
• Clustering - Trend Analysis
  

For details :
http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/em_home/OMCWN/toc.htm  

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.2

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 2 (13.2) is now available !
More information on this latest release here:

• Enterprise Manager on Oracle.com, OTN & OPN
• OTN Download Page

Oracle Cloud - Size, Configure & Order

OOW2016 - Oracle Management Cloud - Presentation

Oracle Management Cloud presentations are available to download from OMC Community web page.

How to relocate a service to another domain

Since September release, Account Administrators can move a service to another identity domain that they have access to.

Oracle Documentation

MySQL now available in Oracle Cloud

Oracle announced the General Availability of Oracle MySQL Cloud Service
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service, built on Oracle’s proven MySQL Enterprise Edition and powered by the Oracle Public Cloud, provides a simple, automated, integrated and enterprise-ready MySQL cloud service.
Customers can now rapidly, securely and cost-effectively deliver MySQL-based applications in the cloud at global scale !

More information :

• MySQL Blog 
• eBook

OOW2016 - PaaS Announcements

Cloud First

App to Cloud & Stack Manager

Cloud Native Tools

Container Cloud Service

Container Registry

Project Visual Code

ChatBot

Analytics Cloud Service

Essbase Cloud Service

Big Data Discovery Cloud Service

IoT Applications

Machine Learning

Oracle Management Cloud Services

Security Monitoring Analytics Cloud Service

Oracle will acquire cloud security vendor Palerra

Oracle has agreed to acquire Palerra, a vendor of software for securing cloud services, as part of its strategy to provide customers comprehensive identity and security cloud services.

OOW2016 - Larry Ellison session replay

What Makes Oracle's IaaS Cloud Platform Unique

Application Container Cloud Service - PHP Support

Since August release, Administrators can deploy PHP applications to Oracle Application Container Cloud Service :

New tutorial :  create Sample PHP Applications

Oracle Developer Gateway

Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud

Very interesting white paper for those thinking to migrate their eBS environment to Oracle Cloud :
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebs-on-oracle-cloud-3220296.pdf 

Oracle Cloud Machine (OCM) now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)

Oracle Management Cloud 16.3.5 Release

Oracle announced today the availability of 16.3.5 release of Oracle Management Cloud.
The following are the key updates in this release:

IT Analytics Cloud Service

• New Application Server Analytics application
  (analyzes the configuration and performance of application servers)
  
• Host Resource Analytics enhancements
  (provide seasonal analysis of resource usage based on weekday, week or month)
  

Log Analytics Cloud Service

• Saved Search Alert
• Windows File Monitoring & Ingest Windows Event Logs

Application Performance Monitoring Cloud Service

• New Platform Support (SOA Suite , OSB)

Check the "what's new" section for details.

Migrate applications with App to Cloud

Oracle App to Cloud allows administrators to export existing Oracle Weblogic server domain configuration and Java application and to then provision a new Oracle Java Cloud Service instance that will contain the same domain resources and applications.

Continuous Integration for the Oracle Database with Oracle Developer Cloud Service

Ravello now available on OPC

Oracle announced today the availability of OPC (Oracle Public Cloud)  as a deployment target on Oracle Ravello

Oracle SOA CS - White paper for Disaster Recovery (DR)

Oracle published a white paper for SOACS customers who need to have DR (Disaster Recovery) site to site in Oracle Cloud : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-soacs-dr-3125213.pdf

Oracle FastConnect Partner Edition- Verizon SCI

Oracle FastConnect Partner Edition – Verizon SCI is now available.


Using Oracle FastConnect Partner Edition – Verizon SCI, an existing Verizon Private IP customers can now use a private connection based on Verizon Private IP VPN service to reliably, predictably and consistently transfer large volumes of data between Oracle Cloud and their own on premises environment.


It allows easy, simple provisioning and integration of customer’s WANs to Oracle Public Cloud using Verizon Enterprise Center (VEC) portal.

Oracle IT Analytics Cloud Service Webcast

Join Oracle Experts for the Latest on Oracle IT Analytics Cloud Service
 August 18th @ 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST

Application Performance Monitoring Cloud Service 16.3.3 / End User Monitoring Session Diagnostics

Now with the latest version of APM, administrators can see each end user session for their application

• Delve deep into the performance of actual end user experience. 
• Investigate and select sessions by health. 
• Filter the session list to a specific user session to triage exactly what click, button, JavaScript, page, or error is causing the problem.

Log Analytics Cloud Service 16.3.3 / No dependency with EM !

Deploying Enterprise Manager (and the Enterprise Manager Agents) is no longer a prerequisite to use Log Analytics Cloud Service !
A new model for creating entities (targets), entity types (target types), groups, systems and topology is introduced to help customers that don't have Enterprise Manager to take advantage of Log Analytics.

SPARC Dedicated Compute Now Available in the Oracle Cloud

Oracle Compute Cloud Service – Dedicated Compute Capacity, SPARC Model 300 is an IaaS service running in the Oracle Cloud that takes full advantage of SPARC M7.

Available as a dedicated IaaS offering in the Oracle Cloud through a cloud subscription model, the SPARC Model 300 service allows customers to utilize their existing Oracle software licenses.

For More Information on SPARC in the Oracle Cloud Go To  Oracle.com/sparc

IT Analytics Cloud Service 16.3.3 / Availability Analytics

In latest release, Oracle introduced a new category of analytical applications, called Availability Analytics, focused on health and availability of applications and their infrastructure. Using this app, LOB application owners can pinpoint their worst applications based on occurrences or duration of downtime.

This app also provides out-of-the-box insight into the availability trends to show if it is getting better or worse over time.
IT Managers can use this app to find their most problematic components, e.g. database, application server or host, based on events generated and analyze patterns based on platform, version or category of events, to uncover systemic problems in their application infrastructure.

IT Analytics Cloud Service 16.3.3 / Application Performance Analytics

Oracle introduced a new app in the category of performance analysis called Application Performance Analytics which provides insight into the performance of all applications.

Through the integration of Application Performance Monitoring Cloud service with this app, application managers and DevOps can analyze trends in performance metrics and errors from across applications by various dimension such as geography, device and application tier to identify problem areas in applications and performance degradation over time that may be affecting the application end user experience.

IT Analytics Cloud Service 16.3.3 / Host Resource Analytics

In this release (16.3.3), Oracle introduced a new app in the category of resource analysis called Host Resource Analytics focused on analyzing resources of all types of hosts, e.g. physical servers, Exadata, virtual machines and IaaS.

With this app, capacity planners and heads of infrastructure in enterprises can view the capacity and utilization of all their compute resources on-premise and on-the-cloud at a glance to identify the hosts running out of capacity by resource, e.g. CPU, memory or storage.
The app also identifies hosts with excess capacity so that workload may be transferred to these underutilized hosts, thereby reducing capital procurement costs.

Oracle Management Cloud 16.3.3 Release

Oracle announced today the availability of 16.3.3 release of Oracle Management Cloud.
The following are the key updates in this release:

IT Analytics Cloud Service

• New Host Resource Analytics App
• New Application Performance Analytics App
• New Availability Analytics App
• Data Explorer enhancements

Log Analytics Cloud Service

• Enterprise Manager Independence
• New Configuration View
• Target Entity Card & Topology View

Application Performance Monitoring Cloud Service

• End User Monitoring Session Diagnostics
• Page Instances
• Automated .NET End User Monitoring

OSCSA CD Demonstration

Migrating Oracle E-BusinessOn-Prem to Oracle Cloud

API Catalog Cloud Service

REST APIs for Oracle Cloud Services are available from
https://apicatalog.oraclecloud.com

Database Deployment Using a Cloud Backup

DBAs can now create an Oracle Database Cloud deployment whose database is taken from a cloud backup.

More information:

• Documentation

DBCS Snapshot

OPC users can now create snapshots of the Oracle Compute Cloud Service storage volumes that support a Database as a Service database deployment hosting a single-instance database.





These snapshots can be used to create database deployments quickly because their storage is linked to the snapshot’s storage using “copy on write” technology provided by Oracle Compute Cloud Service.

Shared file storage over NFSv4

OPC users can use Oracle Storage Cloud Software Appliance – Cloud Distribution to provide highly scalable, low-cost, reliable shared storage in the cloud for their Oracle Compute Cloud Service instances.

More information:

• Documentation "Oracle Storage Cloud Software Appliance – Cloud Distribution"

OPC-INIT

opc-init is a utility that enables initialization of cloud instances within Oracle Compute Cloud Service.

More information:

• Documentation

OPC CLI utility

The OPC Command Line Interface (CLI) is now available via OTN.
Currently the CLI supports the Compute Service (compute/storage/networking) but will be rapidly growing to support other capabilities such as VPNaaS, LBaaS, Cloud Monitoring Service, Object Storage, etc.

More information:

• Documentation