EST Publications

Oracle Enterprise Manager, Cloud Control is the quintessential tool for monitoring IT systems. From the bottom to the top, this product can monitor servers, applications, databases (not just Oracle), and manage jobs possible managed today by job scheduler packages. What is documented are steps for enabling monitoring along with discussions regarding why you would want to and what you should expect as a result. The author has configured this product for multiple customers on multiple versions and this tool delivers the goods businesses would expect. Pages: 540

This book is a composition of Best Practices and lessons learned over 40 years in the technology business. Almost every day we hear about another hack and theft of a companies data including private information for these systems store. Topics covered include encryption both at rest and over the wire, preventive maintenance, monitoring, and reporting for each item in the stack. To be clear, compromising systems is an ongoing challenge for any company and topics covered in this book are a great place to start. Also covered are methods for collecting and processing data necessary for reporting, Governance, and providing proactive knowledge when someone is after your data. Hacks are described and chilling examples are available detailing how IT happened. Many examples sound like common sense or "I knew that", but some of the most destructive intrusions happened because of poor maintenance of IT systems for whatever reason. Pages: 1140