Ooredoo, a communications company, delivering mobile, fixed, broadband internet and corporate-managed services in Qatar, has signed a major agreement with Oracle to deploy Oracle Alloy, a sovereign cloud and AI platform that enables the telecommunications provider to deliver hyperscale cloud services directly from Qatar. The deal positions Ooredoo among the first operators in the region to launch a fully sovereign, locally delivered cloud environment designed for highly regulated industries.
In a press release, Ooredoo states that Oracle Alloy enables cloud services to operate with the same capabilities as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, while maintaining full control over data, governance, and operations within Qatar’s borders. The platform is built for markets that require strict compliance standards, and will give public and private sector organisations access to advanced cloud and AI technologies, without data leaving the country.
Thani Ali I A Al-Malki, Chief Business Officer (CBO), Ooredoo Qatar, said, “This partnership marks a major milestone in Ooredoo’s journey to becoming Qatar’s leading provider of sovereign cloud and AI solutions that reinforces our commitment to building a future-ready digital ecosystem for the nation.”
This new deployment in Qatar, will include a private, in-country cloud hosted in Ooredoo’s national data centers, offering enhanced data sovereignty and low-latency performance. With integrated AI tools and GPU-accelerated compute, the system is designed to support modern, data-heavy and AI-driven workloads across sectors such as government, finance, energy, and healthcare.
This initiative aligns closely with Qatar’s digital economy priorities such as data sovereignty in the Middle East, which is the principle that digital data is subject to the laws, regulations, and governance of the country where it is collected, stored, or processed. It also aligns with the Qatar National Vision 2030, which is the comprehensive blueprint for Qatar’s long-term development across economic, social, human, and environmental pillars. The rollout of Oracle Alloy aims to meet growing demand from enterprises seeking secure, compliant cloud services hosted entirely within Qatar.
Readers will recall that these companies had originally established their partnership in 2024 to drive digital transformation, and upgrade Ooredoo’s Oracle Database estate to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC), an Oracle Cloud Database fully deployed within the Ooredoo Data Center. Oracle had also recently helped launch a sovereign hyperscale platform in the UAE in partnership with e& enterprise (UAE-based e& group subsidiary).