Aruba Global Cloud IT3

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Milan

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Italy

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Western Europe

Region
Europe

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EMEA

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Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Short Code: DC-A

Year Built: 2017

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Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center (IT3) is in Ponte San Pietro, Bergamo, near Milan. All the center’s systems have been designed and built to meet and exceed the highest levels of resilience set by ANSI/TIA 942-A Rating 4 (formerly Tier 4).

The 200,000 sqm campus has an area of 90,000 sqm which designated as data center space. The campus has up to 90MW of power with a two utility connections. The campus operates with 100% renewable energy source, self-produced using hydroelectric and photovoltaic system or drawn from the network with guarantee of renewable energy certification.

DC-A Features

Total surface area: 17.600 m2
Data hall surface area: 8.050 m2
Connection points to utilities: 2
UPS redundancy: 2N+1
UPS type: double conversion static
Individual UPS power: 500kVA
Generator redundancy: 2N
Generator type: diesel generator units
Full load run time: 26h in emergency conditions, 52h in standard conditions
UPS run time: 15 minutes at full power on single module in emergency conditions - 40 minutes in standard conditions

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Sites within 15 miles of Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Distance	Site	About
0.06 miles	Aruba: IT3 DC-C
0.14 miles	Aruba: IT3 DC-E	This facility is part of Aruba Global Cloud's IT3 Campus in Bergamo, Italy.
0.23 miles	Aruba: IT3 DC-D	This facility is part of Aruba Global Cloud's IT3 Campus in Bergamo, Italy.
0.28 miles	Aruba: IT3 DC-B
12.31 miles	QTS: Vimercate/Milan	QTS is planning its first Italian data center campus in Vimercate, outside Milan, on the former IBM industrial site.
13.54 miles	Echelon: Milan LIN10	The Irish data center firm, Echelon, is expanding into the Italian market through a key partnership with Starwood Capital Group.
13.55 miles	Echelon: LIN10 Bldg-2	This facility is part of Echelon's LIN10 campus in Milan.

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Campus with mountains in the background

Source: Aruba.it

Entrance

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DC-A, DC-B, DC-C, DC-D, DC-E, and the Hydroelectric Plant on the campus

IT3 Campus with Building Labeled

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DC-A, DC-B, DC-C, DC-D, DC-E, and the Hydroelectric Plant on the campus

Entrance to DC-A

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Another view of Datacenter A

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Photo taken in 2017

Modern Turnstyle

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Freight Elevator

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Hall way that leads to the Data Halls

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Empty Data Hall ready for customer deployments

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Stacked Power Infrastructure

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Chiller Plant

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Aruba Hydroelectric plant on the River Brembo helps to power the data center campus

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Bridge to Electrical Plant

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Dam for hydro power

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Hydro Turbine

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Turbine Room

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Map of the Campus

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Map of Aruba Cloud's Facilities

Source: Aruba.it

Aruba owned facilities are in orange

Operating Company

Aruba S.p.A., founded in 1994, is the largest Web service company in Italy. Aruba offers 4 main services: Hosting and Domains, e-Security, Cloud and Data Center services. The company is also active within major European markets such as the French, UK and German market, and claims leadership in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and a consolidated presence in Poland and Hungary.

Aruba manages over 2.1 million domains, over 7.4 million email accounts, over 4.1 million PEC accounts, 31.000 servers and a total of over 4.7 million customers. In addition, Arbua provides dedicated server, housing and colocation services, managed services, digital signature, digital preservation and smart cards. In 2011 the company began offering Cloud services. Aruba has extensive experience in managing data centers with a European network capable of hosting over 60.000 servers.

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Aruba announces launch date for delayed Rome data center

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Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

October 01, 2021 Milan

Italian data center company Irideos has begun work on a new data center at its Avalon campus in the city of Milan. The new facility named Avalon 3 will have space for 500 racks across 37,700 square feet (3,500 square meters). It will also have 3.2MW of capacity. Irideos is building the new data...

Euronext is moving its data center infrastructure from London to Italy because of Brexit

June 30, 2021 Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Euronext, the largest stock exchange in Europe says it is moving its data center out of London to Italy because of Brexit. It says it made the decision because it needs a predictable regulatory environment which the UK can’t provide. Euronext initially moved its data center infrastructure from...

MIX Peering PoP Established at Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center

July 19, 2018 Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Aruba S.p.A. inked a deal with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) to see the addition of new interconnections with Aruba launching a point of presence (PoP) directly accessible from its Global Cloud Data Center – the largest data center campus in Italy – thanks to equipment linked to Milan via...