Ooredoo Partners with Oracle to Launch Sovereign Cloud and AI Services in Qatar

The partnership enables fully local cloud solutions with AI tools, ensuring data sovereignty and compliance for regulated industries.

Ooredoo, a communications company that provides mobile, fixed broadband internet and corporate-managed services in Qatar, has signed a major partnership with Oracle to use Oracle Alloy, a sovereign cloud and AI platform that allows the telecommunications provider to provide hyperscale cloud services directly from Qatar. The partnership makes Ooredoo among the first providers in the region to launch a fully sovereign locally provided cloud environment designed for highly regulated industries.

According to Ooredoo's press release, Oracle Alloy enables cloud services to operate with the same features as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure while maintaining complete control over data, governance and operations in Qatar. The platform is meant for markets that demand strong compliance regulations and it will provide public and private sector organizations with access to creative cloud and AI technologies without moving data outside the country.

Ooredoo Qatar Chief Business Officer Thani Ali I A Al-Malki stated that this partnership marks a crucial phase in Ooredoo's journey to becoming Qatar's leading provider of sovereign cloud and AI solutions, strengthening their dedication to building a futurist digital ecosystem for the country.

This new deployment in Qatar will comprise a private in-country cloud hosted in Ooredoo's national data centers, which will provide increased data sovereignty and low latency performance. The system, which includes integrated AI tools and GPU-accelerated processing, is aimed at handling modern large-scale AI-based workloads in sectors like legal, finance, energy and healthcare.

Data sovereignty in the Middle East the idea that digital data is subject to the legal, rules and governance of the nation where it is gathered, kept or processed—is one of Qatar's top priorities for the digital economy. Also, it is in line with Qatar's National Vision 2030, which is the complete plan for the country's long-term development across the pillars of economy, society, humanity and environment.

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