e& enterprise Unveils Sovereign Cloud for UAE’s Data-Driven Future with Oracle

It looks like e& enterprise is making a strong play in the race to anchor the UAE’s digital future. The company has announced its intention to roll out the next generation of OneCloud, a sovereign hyperscale cloud platform built on Oracle Alloy. In practice, this means more than 200 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services will soon be accessible to government agencies, regulated industries, and local enterprises that need to keep sensitive data within national borders.

Now, if you’ve ever worked with cloud setups that cross jurisdictions, you’ll know it can be a bit of a faff with data residency and compliance. So, the UAE’s emphasis on sovereignty here isn’t just rhetoric — it’s becoming a non‑negotiable demand. OneCloud will run out of local data centres, offering low-latency performance with the added comfort of transparent service-level agreements and usage-driven pricing. And yes, it’s AI-ready, which everyone seems to expect these days.

Commenting on the move, Khalid Murshed, CEO of e& enterprise, described it as laying “a sovereign cloud fabric for the UAE’s digital economy,” highlighting that the platform combines Oracle’s breadth of cloud tools with local oversight and governance. His point reflects the growing tension: organisations want the scale of global cloud, but not at the expense of control over their data. Richard Smith from Oracle also touched on this, noting how quickly data localisation has gone from optional to essential across both public and private sectors.

Here’s the bit that caught my eye: the OneCloud infrastructure stretches across Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service. When you bolt on integrated AI and GenAI services, you’re basically giving regulated industries a shortcut to modernisation without the headache of piecing together fragmented systems. That said, I reckon adoption won’t be entirely smooth — moving critical systems into new sovereign environments always throws up migration hurdles.

Personally, at Arageek we’ve seen plenty of ambitious cloud projects across the MENA region, but few have been this closely tied to national strategy. It reminded me of a chat I once had with a startup founder in Abu Dhabi who said, half-joking, that “keeping data in the UAE is easier said than done.” If OneCloud does what it promises, that founder and countless others may finally have fewer sleepless nights on the compliance front.

The platform is planned to go live early next year, making it available to government bodies, financial institutions, and other regulated players. For the UAE, which already has impressive AI ambitions, this timing feels spot on. On the flip side, success will come down to whether customers trust the promise of full sovereignty — because at the end of the day, trust is harder to build than servers.

Either way, the launch of OneCloud looks set to accelerate the region’s digital journey. And even if I’m not 100% sold on the hype yet, I’m definately curious to see how the market reacts when the switch is flipped.

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