1. Cloud Control Database Lifecycle Management Administrator's Guide
  2. Database Maintenance: Updates (Patching) and Upgrades
  3. Patching End-to-End Use Cases
  4. End-to-End Use Case: Patching Your Data Center
  5. The Challenge of Patching Your Data Center

The Challenge of Patching Your Data Center

In any enterprise the data center plays a critical role in keeping the IT functions alive and business going.

Administrators in a data center carry out several data maintenance, data backup, and lifecycle management operations every day. The challenges they face in carrying out these system management activities are can be immeasurable. These activities become even more profound when the data centers span multiple geographical locations across multiple time zones.

One of the lifecycle management challenges that administrators regularly face is patching their entire ecosystem and keeping their data center secure and up to date. The requirement becomes even more complex when there are several types of patches, when it is difficult to identify the ones relevant to your data center, and when the entire patching operation is manual, error prone, and time consuming.