NATO selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for modernisation

Defence Digital Infrastructure NATO selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for sovereign, AI-ready modernisation

2025-09-12 From 2 min Reading Time

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) will migrate mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, using sovereign cloud capabilities to enhance performance, security and interoperability across NATO’s digital backbone.

NATO’s NCIA will migrate mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, combining sovereign cloud controls with AI-ready services under a programme led by Thales with Red Reply, Shield Reply and Proximus.(Source: Oracle) — NATO’s NCIA will migrate mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, combining sovereign cloud controls with AI-ready services under a programme led by Thales with Red Reply, Shield Reply and Proximus.
(Source: Oracle)

Oracle announced that the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) will move core, mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Working with prime contractor Thales and Oracle-specialist partners Red Reply and Shield Reply from the Reply Group, NCIA will migrate on-premises systems to OCI to leverage sovereign cloud, performance, availability, AI-optimised services and security controls.

As NATO’s technology and cyber centre, NCIA provides secure, cost-effective and interoperable communications and information systems to connect the Alliance, protect its networks and support operations. The migration supports NCIA’s modernisation programme by expanding capacity and optimising system performance while maintaining strict controls over sensitive data.

“The collaboration with Oracle will help NCIA deliver secure, cloud-based and interoperable communications and information services to NATO,” said Alexandre Bottero, Vice President Network and Infrastructure Systems at Thales. “With OCI, NCIA can adopt the latest cloud and AI innovations to modernise its technology estate without compromising the security of mission-critical data.”

OCI’s sovereign capabilities are intended to meet NCIA requirements for data residency, hyperscale services and operational governance. Reply will provide analysis, secure architecture, and managed services for the migration, including the transition of three legacy data centres to OCI. “Our goal is a secure, seamless and future-proof move to the cloud for NCIA’s business-critical workloads,” said Filippo Rizzante, CTO at Reply. Oracle EMEA technology chief Richard Smith added that OCI will give NCIA greater control over data storage and workload execution while enabling advanced analytics and protection measures.

Red Reply, Shield Reply and Thales will oversee OCI integration with NATO’s information systems, ensure end-to-end data security and coordinate workload migration. Proximus will deliver advanced networking capabilities.

Oracle’s distributed cloud model offers public cloud regions, dedicated regions operated in customer data centres, government and isolated national-security regions, hybrid deployments via Cloud@Customer and roving edge infrastructure, and multicloud options including Oracle Database@AWS, @Azure and @Google Cloud, along with interconnects for low-latency integration.

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