Cisco Piston Enterprise OS [EOL] vs Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control comparison

Cisco and Oracle are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Additionally, 100% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Cisco Piston Enterprise OS ...

Average Rating

9.0

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Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

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Enterprise677

BS Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

A simple interface and helpful support for a solution that grows with us

It's a flexible enough tool to submit the changes that you want. It gives you the ability to cancel any loop. You can connect new orchestrations together. It offers enough support so that you don't need to have the need to get another device. The user interface is simple and easy to use.

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Simplice Choumeni-Tchieutoue

technical Manager at DBA Expert Consulting

Extensive tool features support database monitoring, but support and pricing present challenges

I don't fully understand what improvements could be made in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. To make it better, more features could be added, but it is already a very complete tool, especially if you know how to configure it properly, as you can use it to monitor other databases such as PostgreSQL and SQL Server in addition to Oracle.

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Pros

"It offers enough support so that you don't need to have the need to get another device."

"I strongly recommend the solution to people."

"Advisors provide quick access to Insight and best practice information for performance tuning and configuration."

"We have been satisfied with technical support."

"The capability to manage incidents, monitor agent statuses, and address performance issues is highly valuable."

"There are lot of features in this product that I like, among them are that RMAN backup jobs can be created, and that all the database instances can be monitored from one place."

"It’s impressive how much better Oracle 13c is, how much improved it is over Oracle Grid Control 10."

"It is easier to manage your Oracle Database backups and create email alerts regarding the status of your backups (Succeeded or Failed)."

"Another feature is the Resource Manager, where we can manage the consumption of resources of certain queries, separately in resource groups. Depending on the characteristics of the query, queries can be placed in groups that consume less database and hardware resources."

"I believe that one of the most valuable resources this tool has is the ability to check offending processes, which are burdening the hardware resources, and to generate advice quickly that can improve a query's performance."

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Cons

"The solution is just too expensive, so maybe the pricing could be better."

"Oracle Data Guard monitoring: There are no alerts for redo log transport failure."

"The installation steps are very complex and the documentation for them is very generic and does not make very clear the correct steps from the installation to the addition of the host and database."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control needs to monitor other Oracle tools as well. It should also improve its pricing."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control manages the monitoring and the graphs. Other tools complement the base monitoring. Zabbix is efficient with space pressure."

"Sometimes the alerts are coming a bit late, for example, an alert for the CPU. It depends on the threshold that you have, how long you want to check the CPU of the machine. I got some faulty alerts with Data Guard. I had stopped a synchronization for maintenance and then I re-synchronized Oracle Data Guard. It took some time to appear in Enterprise Manager and send me the right notification that Data Guard was up and running and synchronizing. I realized this because I went directly into the database to check the status of Data Guard, and it was telling me that it was running okay. But in Enterprise Manager, it needed some more time to update the interface."

"When registering a host, only if your host is running Linux will you get all the information which is available on EM. It would be nice if in future releases to include IBM AIX (primarily) and Microsoft Windows (secondly)."

"They need to simplify it and make it lighter."

"Another point that can be improved is the agent instability in the monitored hosts, because sometimes an agent has to be resynchronized to recapture the information."

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"One has to pay for the enterprise version."

"Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable."

"The solution's pricing is fine."

"it's neither expensive nor cheap."

"The tool's pricing is competitive."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."

"The licensing costs are largely too high."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a pretty expensive solution but worth the money."

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Piston Enterprise OS

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Overview

Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) is an enterprise grade cloud operating system meeting the security and governance needs of enterprises wanting to use OpenStack for their infrastructure services. pentOS is an OpenStack distro that builds on top of the OpenStack codebase adding some proprietary features to meet the security and governance needs of the enterprise customers.

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Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle's integrated enterprise information technology (IT) management product line, which provides the industry's only complete, integrated, and business-driven enterprise cloud management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager creates business value for IT by leveraging the built-in management capabilities of the Oracle stack for traditional and cloud environments, enabling customers to achieve unprecedented efficiency gains while dramatically increasing service levels.

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