Oracle Corp. has launched the Oracle Cloud MSP Program. It's designed for managed services providers (MSPs) that want to monitor and maintain customer workloads on the company's Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The formalized partner effort, which surfaces at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, essentially counters Amazon's popular MSP partner program for AWS.First, the big picture: Oracle has spent the past two years or so accelerating its SaaS business -- predicting that the company will rank among the top two SaaS providers of cloud business suites. But in recent days, Chairman Larry Ellison has been talking up the IaaS business -- alleging that it's ready to leapfrog Amazon Web Services in terms of pricing, functionality and more.Initial partners include some managed services giants -- such as Accenture, Atos, Cognizant, Deloitte, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Infosys, NTT / Dimension Data, TCS, Tech Mahindra, and Wipro. Sample services provided by the MSP partners can include: cloud advisory, service migration, DevOps, provisioning and orchestration, monitoring, 24x7 monitoring, incidence and change management, and cloud optimization, among other options, the database and applications giant said.
MSPs: Profiting From Oracle Cloud Services?
The Cloud MSP Program -- part of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized -- is the latest step in that effort. According to the company:"The partner will be able to buy Oracle Cloud Platform based on the unique needs of the customer, package their MSP services, and sell the integrated solution through a streamlined business model. Partners reap the benefits of building their services on a world-class cloud infrastructure and customers get the complete solution they need to optimize their cloud initiatives – helping reduce risk, cost, and complexity."
