Oracle has won a major contract with NATO’s Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), which will migrate mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The move is part of NATO’s wider modernization push, ensuring secure and interoperable systems to support operations and cyber defense. Thales, along with Red Reply and Shield Reply, will serve as key partners on the migration, while Proximus will provide networking support.
The project will shift NCIA’s on-premises workloads—including three legacy data centers—into OCI’s sovereign cloud environment. OCI’s high performance, data residency compliance, and AI-optimized services will be used to modernize operations while meeting strict security and sovereignty requirements. Red Reply and Shield Reply will oversee consulting, secure design, and managed services, while Thales will integrate OCI into NATO’s information systems.
Oracle is positioning its distributed cloud offerings—spanning public, dedicated, hybrid, and multicloud deployments—as an answer to government and defense requirements for sovereignty and control. For NATO, OCI will enable greater operational efficiency, workload resilience, and real-time AI-driven analysis across its infrastructure.
• NCIA, NATO’s technology and cyber hub, is moving mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Thales, Red Reply, Shield Reply, and Proximus will coordinate migration, integration, and networking
• Three legacy data centers will transition to OCI sovereign cloud environments
• OCI provides data residency compliance, hyperscale capacity, AI optimization, and operational controls
• Oracle Distributed Cloud includes sovereign public regions, dedicated cloud, hybrid deployments, and multicloud interconnects with AWS, Azure, and Google
“With 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,” said Alexandre Bottero, Vice President Network and Infrastructure Systems, Thales.
🌐 Analysis: This deal highlights the rising demand for sovereign cloud deployments in defense and government sectors, where security and data control are paramount. Oracle is leveraging its distributed cloud model to compete more directly with AWS, Azure, and Google in sensitive markets, while NATO’s choice of OCI underscores trust in Oracle’s AI-optimized infrastructure and multicloud interoperability.
