Next month BMC Software plans to ship a version of its SQL-BackTrack backup and recovery tool that integrates with its SmartDBA Web management console.
Company officials said the integration of the products would mean that backup and other management tasks can now be orchestrated and monitored from a single browser-based console by DBAs from anywhere they have Web access.
BMC is also adding more internal intelligence to the SmartDBA DBXray diagnostic tool for Oracle databases.
BMC, Austin, Texas, said this is another step in its Project Golden Gate road map aimed at reducing costs and complexity of data management across the enterprise from mainframes to PCs.
SQL-BackTrack for Oracle Version 3.4.10 starts at $5,600 for handling less than 50 Gbytes of storage. DBXray For Oracle Version 6.2 is $2,495 per user.
Last week at OracleWorld the company also announced PATROL Management for monitoring and managing Oracle9i Application Server.
At the same show, BMC rival Quest Software debuted Quest Central 2.5, a toolset melding real-time and historical diagnostics.
DBAs can now get "playback" of database events that happened while they were away. The product also embeds more "in-context" knowledge of problems, and thus can provide more detailed responses, said a spokeswoman for the Irvine, Calif.-based company.
Quest Central 2.5, slated to ship later this month, starts at $2,400 per server.
Quest also offers a suite of tools for IBM's DB2 database and some products for Microsoft SQL Server. The company plans to have the full lineup available for that database in the second quarter of next year, officials said.
BMC, Quest and others are in a race with the database vendors who themselves are adding more management perks to their lineups.
For its part, Oracle last week announced Oracle Enterprise Manager 4.0, which promises to manage the entire Oracle lineup from database to application server to applications.
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