Aruba S.p.A, one of Italy’s leading providers of data centres, web hosting, email, PEC and domain registration services, has announced its entry into the Gaia-X Digital Clearing House, the network of executive nodes that assesses the compliance of companies wishing to become compliant with Gaia-X standards. Aruba will be one of two European nodes of Gaia-X together with the German multi-national, T-Systems.
Gaia-X was founded with the intention of creating an interoperable and secure cloud, based on compliance with European standards in order to have a free and transparent circulation of data. This is to avoid the risk of lock-in for companies and at the same time foster the widest participation and competition among cloud solution providers, with a certification system at compliance level that guarantees the exercise of rights and data protection. It is a project open to all countries that wish to contribute to its growth and join as members: as a goal, it aims to provide European companies with a cloud that has security standards guaranteed by the European institutional system.
The agreement became official during the Market-X Conference & Expo in Wien, a networking event organised by Gaia-X to raise awareness of the association’s standards and ensure the integration of the Gaia-X community into an ecosystem. Aruba is a ‘day-one member’ of Gaia-X and will play a pivotal role in the development of a secure infrastructure for the sharing and accessing of data between organisations, laying the foundations for a cloud offering based on core European values.
