Here are the top 10 things CIOs and their information technology (IT) teams should know about Oracle Database 12c:
1) Oracle Database 12c is designed for providing database as a service (DBaaS). One of the tools that facilitates that is Oracle EnterpriseManager Cloud Control, which automates database provisioning and includes a self-service portal that lets developers and users request database instances. Other cloud-enabling capabilities include database resource management, so cloud services can be delivered within minimum and maximum thresholds, and data isolation, for security within a multitenant cloud environment. Oracle Database 12c is equally well suited for public and private clouds.
2) Multitenancy is the “aha!” new capability in Oracle Database 12c, the one that makes it easy to consolidate databases in the cloud. The architectural components for doing that are a container database, with centralized resources and processes, and “pluggable databases” that exist within the container. This ability to propagate databases is the innovation behind Oracle Database 12c’s efficiency gains and gives IT departments unprecedented flexibility in providing database services in support of new business initiatives. Upgrades, backups, and recovery can be performed across the cloud via the container database, rather than one by one.
3) Oracle Database 12c is optimized for big data. One set of capabilities—automatic storage management, partitioning, columnar compression, and other advanced compression techniques–helps IT administrators manage data growth, while in-database analytics (SQL Pattern Matching and MapReduce, for example) support a range of data warehousing workloads. In addition, Oracle Database 12c has a full set of big data integration tools, such as Oracle Loader for Hadoop, Oracle SQL Connector for Hadoop Distributed File System, and more. Thus, big data and cloud computing can coexist in one database platform.
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