One of our team's most popular white papers has been expanded and updated to discuss Oracle Database 12c.  Now available on our OTN page, the new version of Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds covers best practices for consolidation with pluggable databases that the new mulitenant architecture provides, and expanded information on the database and schema consolidation options.  These are the consolidation models the paper evaluates:  

server	database	schema	pluggable databases

Key considerations for consolidating workloads which the paper explores:

• Choosing a consolidation model
• How PDBs solve the IT complexity problem
• Isolation in consolidated environments
• Cloud pool design
• Complementary workloads
• Enterprise Manager 12c for consolidation planning and operations

Many more white papers have been updated or are new for Oracle Database 12c. We'll continue to highlight those which tie directory to your journey to enterprise cloud.