Aruba S.p.A. (www.aruba.it), market leader when it comes to web hosting,
email, certified email PEC and domain registration, and one of the number one companies in the
world in terms of growing data centre and cloud services, announces the pre-opening of one of the
largest data centre campuses in Italy, in Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo). The Global Cloud Data Center
was designed to meet the colocation and IT infrastructure management needs of companies to
represent one of the largest cloud hubs.
The strategic location in the north of Italy, not far from the city of Milan, the maximum use of
technology, the high levels of energy efficiency with total respect for the environment, and the
advanced security systems make the data centre the perfect infrastructure for hosting any IT
system.
The Global Cloud Data Center has been designed and built with the goal of exceeding market
standards when it comes to reliability and performance, and be capable of meeting every demand,
even in terms of future expansion, given the vast size of the site: from an individual dedicated server
to complex physical and cloud infrastructure solutions, via planning cages, data rooms and whole
dedicated data centres, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, right through to the
comprehensive outsourcing of an IT infrastructure, as well as all the additional facilities, such as,
multi-carrier connectivity, routing and hardware supplies; not to mention multi-purpose areas to
fulfil the broadest range of logistical needs, including temporary office space, warehouses, rooms
and workstations for use by clients.
The services available are aimed at large companies, public administration, IT operators and SMEs,
authorities, systems integrators, telecoms companies and any businesses keen to work with the
Italian market and expand their customer base.
The Global Cloud Data Center is connected to the main national and international carriers and
boasts its own dark fibre infrastructure offering a dual path to the Caldera Business Park in Milan,
with virtually unlimited transmission capacity.
A stand-out aspect of the campus is its unique specifications, offering maximum energy efficiency.
Aruba already uses energy that comes exclusively from certified renewable sources for its data
centres. In the new area, energy will be supplied via multiple connections to external utilities, a
hydroelectric plant and a photovoltaic system, both belonging to Aruba. As well as this, an incredibly
efficient geothermal cooling system guarantees optimum results with much lower energy consumption. In addition, all the systems have been designed and built to meet and exceed the highest levels of resilience set out by ANSI/TIA 942-A Rating 4 (formerly Tier 4).
As an extra guarantee of the reliability of the data centre and the entire campus, is the fact that the
area has not historically been affected by natural events such as earthquakes and flooding.
The area is also easy to get to, as it is not far from three international airports (BGY, LIN and MXP),
and close to the high speed rail and motorway networks.
Lastly, in order to comply with the GDPR – coming into force in 2018 – and for the purposes of data
management by a provider in Europe, non-European providers now have the chance to host their
data in a data centre campus that complies with the regulations in force.
The first data centre in the area is up and running, and more than 4MW of power – of the 90MW
planned for the whole campus – have already been sold and are fully operational. It will be fully up
and running in the summer, and will officially open on 5 October 2017.
“We have designed the Global Cloud Data Center so that we would not have any limits in terms of
space and resources, and we wanted to achieve that in a totally eco-sustainable way, thinking about
the environment, but also about the benefits of limiting consumption, raising standards of reliability
and security in the data centre world,” explained Stefano Cecconi, Aruba S.p.A.’s CEO – “The goal
was to provide a response to the big international players who have recently expressed the need for
a strategic base to host their data in Italy, and provide their own services to a market, and from our
point of view, to sustain their growth.”
