Oracle to work with Cern on systems management

Company to deploy administration tools for databases

Oracle has signed a deal with Cern to provide additional IT management tools for the research organisation's database and infrastructure systems.

The company said Cern would be using its Enterprise Manager 12c platform to manage its databases, application servers and web servers. In total, the platform will account for the management of around 3,000 objects.

Oracle said that the Enterprise Manager platform would be overseeing Cern research and infrastructure systems including data generated by the famous Large Hadron Collider facility. The deployment includes around 200 Oracle Database instances and another 200 WebLogic server instances as well as application servers.

"As many of our databases are critical for the operation of the accelerators and experiments, reliability is essential," said Tony Cass, Cern database services group leader.

"Optimising our Oracle infrastructure is also important since we have to support increasing amounts of data within fixed budgets."

Cern, which generates massive amounts of data with its research projects, has arisen in the enterprise IT space as a major consumer of both hardware and services. The company has shelled out contracts to firms to build and maintain its vast data centres and computing facilities.

For Oracle, the announcement marks yet another major deal for the company. Last month, the firm announced contracts to provide services for Microsoft and Salesforce.com, providing its database platform for the companies' respective cloud service offerings.