ManageEngine is on a quest to make Oracle environments more transparent and easier to maintain. The Pleasanton, California-based provider of IT management solutions set up shop at this week’s OpenWorld conference 2013 to showcase new software that lets DBAs keep track of their Oracle deployments from a single pane of glass.

The latest version of ManageEngine’s Applications Management console offers visibility into more than half a dozen system health and performance indicators, including processes, scheduled jobs and data corruption. The solution supports all versions of Oracle’s database software, as well as rivaling NoSQL platforms such as MongoDB and Apache Cassandra. The company touts that its software empowers admins to troubleshoot bottlenecks and improve the performance of their databases.

“Whenever a business-critical Oracle application or process is underperforming, IT teams tend to point fingers at areas that are not well understood,” said Sridhar Iyengar, the vice president of product management at ManageEngine. “Applications Manager monitors across the Oracle application stack — and any other heterogeneous set of servers, app servers and databases. The performance insight now offered by Applications Manager reveals exactly what’s running and whether a problem is at the application, database or network level; so, you can solve performance problems faster and spend less time playing the blame game.”

Yesterday, NetApp announced that it’s expanding support for Oracle Enterprise Manager to allow users to monitor their storage and data environments via a common interface. The vendor also introduced a new database plugin that simplifies the task of taking database snapshots with its FlexClone tool.

Last week at the HP Protect 2013 gathering in Washington, D.C., Hewlett Packard unveiled new enterprise solutions for identifying suspicious network activity and mitigating large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.