NEXIUM Defence CloudThe new generation Armed Forces’ digital weapon

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BE READY FOR DIGITAL WARFAREIn a world evolving in ways we cannot always predict, Armed Forces have to be ready for any type of scenario and multiple events taking place simultaneously. In addition, they have to counter any kind of threats - including those coming from the cyberspace - with rapid detection and response capabilities.

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Military forces are facing digital challenges but standard cloud solutions cannot meet their highly-demanding requirements. NEXIUM Defence Cloud is designed to handle different levels of confidentiality, to operate in constrained bandwidth from HQ to theatre and to analyse high volumes of data coming from the battlefield.

“ During our missions we use and produce more and more data, we need to store, analyse and share these data while mastering security in order to maintain information superiority. European Armed Forces’ Commander

NEXIUM DEFENCE CLOUD, A SOVEREIGN SOLUTION FOR ARMED FORCESHIGHLY-SECURED, PRIVATE CLOUD FOR ARMED FORCES, ADAPTED TO MILITARY REQUIREMENTS, STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS

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RESILIENT AND SECURE SOLUTION• Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC) architecture ensures

deployed systems availability going up to 98%.

• SDDC can be built and configured anywhere in less than 4 hours.

• Internal data are highly secured with Vormetric technology.

AD HOC COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST• MMCS improve collaboration on the theater by enabling

communications through low-bandwidth tactical networks.

END-TO-END AGILITY FROM HEADQUARTERS TO THEATRE

• SMARTNOC is the software management suite allowing orchestrated system provisioning according mission planning. It enables augmented infrastructure supervision while ensuring agile security governance.

HIGH SECURITY OF CRITICAL COMMUNICATIONS

• Software Defined Node (SDNODE) facilitates and enhances networking usages for Defence; it hosts multiple Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) to build a secured mission-critical network infrastructure.

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A partnership relation from conception to operations based on SLA commitment.

OPERATIONS• Cloud architecture and design (consultancy)• End-to-end operations

• Local or remote support• Service Level Agreement (SLA) commitment

MIGRATION• Migration strategy management• Application migration

• DevOps transformation• Cloud native development

CYBER SERVICES• SOC (Security Operation Centre)• Threat intelligence and penetration testing

• Cyber training

SERVICE PORTFOLIO• IaaS / PaaS / SaaS Defence specific catalogue• Communications management

• Big data and Analytics issues

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SUPPORT ARMED FORCES MISSIONS THROUGH A WIDE RANGE OF SERVICES THALES OPERATES ARMED FORCES’ COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM (CIS), SUPPORTS THEIR TRANSFORMATION AND MANAGE MIGRATION WITH A MASTERED SECURITY

INCREASED OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCYSecured Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with services on demand to

improve the efficiency and cost of operations:• Anytime, anywhere, on any device, and supporting

any customer content.• Ad hoc organisations for better communication with no

compromise on security.

OPTIMISED ICT FOOTPRINTSystems are reconfigurable, designed for operational use, and enhanced with virtualisation and

Artificial Intelligence technologies:• More standardisation, less logistic and less IT expertise

on the field.• Plug and play, few hours’ deployment.

AGILITY IN CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTAn agile solution guaranteeing availability and continuity of service on both high throughput areas

and constrained environments:• Best-in-class COTS designed by Thales.• Cyber secured, resilient, and sovereign solution mastered

by Thales.

3 REASONS TO CHOOSE NEXIUM DEFENCE CLOUD

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A STATE-OF-THE-ART SOLUTION FOR ANY MISSION, POWERED BY UNIQUE MILITARY EXPERTISETHALES HAS UNPARALLELED EXPERTISE IN MISSION-CRITICAL CYBER SECURITY AND OUR SOLUTIONS ARE TRUSTED BY MILITARY FORCES AROUND THE WORLD, WITH OVER 10 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE IN HARSH ENVIRONMENTS.

“ Moving to NEXIUM Defence Cloud was the logical next step for us in order to improve our operational efficiency and to build seamless communications’ architectures from HQ to Theatre. European Armed Forces’ Commander

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SOME REFERENCES OF THALES’S EXPERTISE IN SUPPORTING MILITARY OPERATIONS

SINCE 2006 Thales operates the secured Communication and Information System in Afghanistan (CISAF) with 99,7% availability commitment.

SINCE 2018 The Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) is in service on a military ship of a European Navy, multiplying storage capacity and access speed performances by 3.

SINCE 2019 Thales provides dedicated Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) for the European Defence Agency (EDA).

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