{"id":22573,"date":"2025-09-23T14:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=22573"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:18:19","slug":"the-nato-communications-and-information-agency-selects-oracle-cloud-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=22573","title":{"rendered":"The NATO Communications and Information Agency selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will enable the NATO agency to take advantage of the latest cloud and AI technologies to securely modernise its technology infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oracle announced that the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) will move its mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Delivered in collaboration with Red Reply, and Shield Reply, the Reply Group companies specialising in Oracle technologies, and prime contractor Thales, NCIA will move its on-premises workloads to OCI to benefit from OCI\u2019s sovereign cloud solutions, high performance, availability, AI innovation, and enterprise-grade security.<br \/>\nNCIA is the technology and cyber hub of NATO, focusing on connecting the Alliance, defending its networks, and supporting its operations. Its mission is to provide secure, cost-effective, and interoperable communications and information systems and services to NATO. To support this mission and its ongoing modernisation programme, NCIA is enhancing its capacity and optimising the performance of its systems.<br \/>\n\u201cTogether with Oracle, we are committed to helping NCIA provide secure, cloud-oriented, and interoperable communications and information systems and services to NATO,\u201d said Alexandre Bottero, Vice President Network and Infrastructure Systems, Thales. \u201cWith OCI, NCIA will be able to take advantage of the latest cloud and AI innovations to modernise its technology infrastructure without compromising the security of its mission-critical data.\u201d<br \/>\nWith OCI\u2019s sovereign cloud capabilities, NCIA will be able to meet its requirements for data residency, services at hyperscale, and operational controls.<br \/>\n\u201cRed Reply and Shield Reply, as the selected Oracle partners, will bring their deep expertise in Oracle technologies, delivering a full suite of consulting and managed services \u2014 from discovery and secure design to the migration of three legacy data centres to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure,\u201d said Filippo Rizzante, CTO at Reply. \u201cOur goal is to ensure a secure, seamless, and future-proof transition to the cloud for NCIA\u2019s mission-critical workloads.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOCI will help the NCIA manage, analyse, and protect their data while also giving them more control and peace of mind where data is stored and where workloads run,\u201d said Richard Smith, executive vice president of technology and general manager, Oracle EMEA. \u201cWe are proud to support NATO and look forward to helping the Alliance benefit from Oracle\u2019s AI-optimized cloud in a secure, resilient environment.\u201d<br \/>\nRed Reply, Shield Reply and Thales will oversee the integration of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure into the NATO Information System, guaranteeing end-to-end data security and coordinating the associated workload migration, while Proximus will deliver advanced networking capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Oracle Distributed Cloud<\/strong><br \/>\nOracle\u2019s distributed cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with greater control and flexibility. Oracle\u2019s distributed cloud lineup includes:<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Public cloud:<\/strong> Hyperscale public cloud regions serve any size of organization, including those requiring strict EU sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Dedicated cloud:<\/strong> Customers can run all OCI cloud services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for national security purposes. Each of these products provides a full cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign Cloud.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Hybrid cloud:<\/strong> OCI delivers key cloud services on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60 countries. Additionally, OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, which consists of multiple configurations of ruggedized and portable high-performance devices, helps customers leverage remote AI inferencing at the edge.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Multicloud:<\/strong> OCI is physically deployed within all the hyperscale cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, providing low latency, natively integrated Oracle database services, including Oracle Database@AWS, Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and Oracle HeatWave on AWS and Microsoft Azure. Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allow customers to combine key capabilities from across clouds.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Above, image credited to NATO<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will enable the NATO agency to take advantage of the latest cloud and AI technologies to securely modernise its technology infrastructure Oracle announced that the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) will move its mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). 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