Building and Managing a Cloud Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

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Managing the Cloud: Monitoring, Configuration Management, and Compliance

he previous chapters discussed how the cloud can be modeled to provide metered, self-service facilities to end consumers. While self-service eliminates IT as a gating factor in the resource provisioning process, the role of IT is actually of greater significance in the management of a cloud. Ultimately, IT administrators have the role of managing the cloud and making sure that the lights are on and that the service levels of the cloud are being met. Their role ...