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The future of technology services

Arsys is one of the 19 direct participants that Europe has selected to make the IPCEI-CIS, which stands for Important Project of Common European Interest for Cloud Infrastructure Services, a reality. Referred to as 8ra, this R&D initiative is key to the digital transformation and competitiveness of all European Union member countries.

A strategic project for Europe

Strategic for the future of the European Union and with public funding of 1.2 billion euros, the 8ra aims to develop a new generation of cloud and edge computing technology infrastructure solutions that will strengthen the competitiveness of European companies in the global market and fostering the development of the Data Economy and digitisation.

The seamless integration between cloud platforms and edge devices will be a giant step towards the development of many technological advances such as smart cities, autonomous vehicles and the digitisation of industrial processes, while maintaining Europe's core values, such as Data Governance, and establishing a strong public-private collaborative technology ecosystem.

Javier Arnáez, Manager at Arsys Lab

Our vision

"We are proud to contribute our expertise as a cloud provider to this ambitious European project. We will develop the infrastructure and technology services of the future, which will enable European companies to accelerate the adoption of the most disruptive technologies. And all of this, without giving up the hallmarks that we share as Europeans: such as interoperability, data privacy and sustainability"

Javier Arnáez. Manager at Arsys Lab.

The Arsys project

  • Three innovative solutions

    In the first phase, Arsys’s contribution to 8ra includes the design, development, and integration of three new solutions that will enable the launch of the future European multicloud-edge infrastructure:

    1. We are collaborating on the development of the project’s cloud-edge meta-orchestration platform. It will be open source and will ensure interoperability and portability of IT services between different European technology providers.
    2. We are developing a platform to deploy private and secure Artificial Intelligence services, ensuring the confidentiality of data used in model training, agent configuration, and the use of Generative AI applications.
    3. We are creating an advanced monitoring and prediction system for critical indicators of data center performance, efficiency, and sustainability, conceived as a future digital twin to facilitate preventive maintenance and automation of facility operations.
  • More than 10 million euros

    This proposal is part of the IONOS Group's strategy to contribute to the digital sovereignty of the European Union and is aligned with the IONOS SE initiative for the 8ra in Germany.

    It has its own total budget of more than 10 million euros in its first phase and a State aid of 8.4 million euros from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, following the resolution of the call of the UNICO IPCEI-CIS programme of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of the Government of Spain, which finances the projects that make up the country's participation in this European project.

    The initiatives developed by Arsys fall within the 8ra Project, which will have a total public funding of 1,200 million euros from Spain, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland, the EU member countries directly involved in this European initiative.

Developments

2023

December 2023

Arsys, direct Spanish participant in 8ra.

2024

March 2024

General Assembly and European kickoff of the project.

2026

2026

The first phase of Arsys's project for 8ra is expected to last until mid-2026.

2028

2028

The company will remain involved in the project, which is scheduled to be completed in 2028.

8ra Practical Sessions

The scope of the 8ra project from its most practical perspective, in these webinars.

Webinar: Digital Twins

Digital Twins for Data Centers: The Step Towards Ultimate Monitoring

Video: Terraform, simplify and automate the management of your cloud infrastructure

Terraform: Simplify and Automate the Management of Your Cloud Infrastructure

Video: How to Manage Virtual Machine Deployment for AI

How to Manage the Deployment of Virtual Machines for AI

Discover the key points of 8ra in video

Video: What is the IPCEI-CIS?

What is the IPCEI-CIS

Video: How does the IPCEI-CIS boost Europe's competitiveness?

How the IPCEI-CIS will boost Europe's competitiveness

Video: How do companies participate in the IPCEI-CIS?

How companies participate in the IPCEI-CIS

Video: How does Arsys contribute to the IPCEI-CIS?

How Arsys contributes to the IPCEI-CIS

IPCEI-CIS project video

What the Cloud-Edge meta-orchestration platform consists of

IPCEI-CIS project video

What is the Cloud-Edge data analysis and marketplace system

Video: What is the 8ra data center digital twin?

What the digital twin of the 8ra data center consists of

Video: When will we see the results of the 8ra project?

When we will see the results of the 8ra project

Video: Digital sovereignty and data sovereignty

Digital Sovereignty and Data Sovereignty

Video: The Cloud-Edge Continuum

What is the Cloud-Edge continuum

Video: What is meta-orchestration?

What is meta-orchestration

Video: What is a digital twin?

What is a digital twin

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