Friends, Thanks to Tim Hall for suggesting an OTN Appreciation Day today (read his original post here ). He has suggested we write on an Oracle feature we most like, and we all write together on a certain date, which is today. The OTN is special to me. My first technical article was published on the OTN years ago (2006), to do with Enterprise Manager 10g and NetApp Filer snapshots. Since then, I wrote many other articles, some white papers, and also three books. My latest book is on the Oracle Private/Hybrid Database Cloud, and that is definitely my favourite feature right now, since I have worked on it in the past few years when I was at Oracle. I especially like the features of Database as a Service, Snap Clone as a Service, Schema as a Service, and Pluggable Database as a Service. I also like how we can set up the Oracle Database Hybrid Cloud using the Enterprise Manager Hybrid Gateway to connect to the Oracle Public Database Cloud, and have a single pane of glass for both on-premise and on-cloud databases. The RESTful API can also be used for performing DBaaS, SCHaaS and PDBaaS. My main focus in writing this book was the private cloud and the hybrid cloud using Enterprise Manager 13c, which is the practical thing to write on since most companies using Oracle are currently in that state - they have a lot of Oracle databases in house, they may be using Enterprise Manager, and they are starting to use the cloud databases. So quite practically, we don't say put everything on the cloud, or the recently announced in-house cloud machine. We concentrate on the use of good old Enterprise Manager, your current on-premise database infrastructure, and interaction with the public database cloud via the hybrid gateway mechanism of Enterprise Manager - which is the stage that most companies are currently at. For more information, please read my LinkedIn Pulse post here .
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