Oracle is looking to convince the market of its serious intention to be involved in heterogeneous environments with the release of its new system management software platform.
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g enables users on a variety of platforms to manage both applications and systems from a central point, be it Oracle's own database through to a storage box from IBM.
It is being sold as a management tool to kill off all the separate ones data centres currently need to use, with compatibility for IBM, HP, CA and BMC and more than 45 plug-ins.
"Traditional systems management products don't address the complexities of modern data centres," claimed Richard Sarwal, senior vice president of product development at Oracle, in a statement.
"They create islands of automation but do not provide a holistic, integrated picture of the health of the entire IT stack. Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g helps IT deliver greater business value, in addition to greater IT efficiency and productivity."
The three main selling points Oracle has highlighted are "business-driven application management" to organise priorities of apps and increase responsiveness, "integrated application-to-disk management" offering the management of each stack from database to hardware rather than having separate tools and "integrated systems management and support" to allow users to get involved with Oracle's pre-established community for support.
Since its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle has been trying to convince IT users it wants to get on board with hardware, despite its previous software-only focus.
