Oracle Alloy lets you run your own Oracle Cloud.

Oracle Alloy is a cloud infrastructure platform for service providers, integrators, ISVs, and others who want to roll out their cloud services to customers.

Oracle Alloy is a cloud infrastructure platform that enables managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs) to become cloud providers using Oracle technology. Partners can operate Oracle Alloy independently in their data centers and fully control its operations to better fulfill customer and regulatory requirements.

Oracle Alloy is a cloud-in-a-box solution that provides partners with all the necessary infrastructure and software to build and operate their cloud services. This includes hardware, software, and support. Oracle Alloy is based on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), so partners can offer their customers the same features and benefits as OCI.

Oracle Alloy is a good option for partners who want to offer customers a cloud solution tailored to their specific needs. It is also a good option for partners wanting more control over their cloud operations.

Here are some of the benefits of using Oracle Alloy:

• Flexible: Partners can operate Oracle Alloy independently in their data centers and fully control its operation. As a result, partners can tailor the cloud solution to their specific needs, as well as to the needs of their customers.
• Oracle Alloy is scalable to meet the needs of even the largest organizations. Cloud solutions can be scaled up or down as needed by partners.
• OCI, Oracle's highly secure cloud platform, underpins Oracle Alloy's security. Several security features are included in Oracle Alloy, including encryption, access control, and threat detection.
• The Oracle Alloy support team assists partners using the product. In addition to technical support, marketing support is also available.

If you are an MSP or VAR looking to offer your customers a cloud solution, Oracle Alloy is an excellent option. It is a flexible, scalable, and secure cloud platform backed by Oracle support.

The new private label cloud offering is based on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle's cloud stack that provides cloud computing, storage, and networking services, "Alloy provides our partners with the ability to take our OCI IP and be able to brand it and run it as their cloud. Partners can offer it to their end customers as as an infrastructure provider," Batta explained.

Oracle said that users of Alloy can offer a branded, tailored experience and package value-added applications and services to meet the specific needs of their industry verticals and markets. Alloy can be used within an organization's data centers to serve the public sector and other industries that want to keep workloads in the country.

The company is offering Oracle Fusion Cloud as part of the offering so that partners can invoice bills and manage the lifecycle of their customers.

Oracle expects each partner agreement to be different, Batta said, adding that they were working with partners such as Accenture to shape the product. However, partner organizations can sign up to buy the new offering. "Every commercial agreement is going to be slightly different, but essentially, it's going to be a commitment model, similar to what a dedicated region is today."

Alloy provides the same infrastructure and platform services in the OCI public cloud. As a result, partners can go to market with a pre-integrated hardware and software platform deployed in their data centers.

Oracle Alloy is being rolled out concurrently with several services on OCI app development, serverless and container messaging services, and more straightforward adoption of cloud-native technologies. The services, now in limited availability, include:

• A Virtual Nodes capability for Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) and Container Instances provides serverless compute options for running container-based cloud applications without managing servers. OKE users can build Kubernetes clusters that use Virtual Nodes for serverless operation. Container Instances allow for quickly launching containers with a single CLI command or a guided console experience for cloud-based containers not requiring orchestration.
• OCI Queue provides serverless messaging for distributed microservices architectures. Asynchronous communications are enabled to decouple services so they can scale independently and handle spikes in demand.
• OCI Workflow is a serverless workflow engine with a graphical flow designer enabling developers to accelerate application logic development, automated IT tasks, and data processing jobs. Orchestration of OCI services is supported for OCI Functions and AI/ML.