8ra
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.
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
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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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
December 2023
Arsys, direct Spanish participant in 8ra.
March 2024
General Assembly and European kickoff of the project.
2026
The first phase of Arsys's project for 8ra is expected to last until mid-2026.
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.
Discover the key points of 8ra in video
News and events
2025
- [12/11/2025] Arsys, at NexusForum 2025 and Virt8ra Integration TechDay
- [27/05/2025] Experts gathered at UNIR agree on the importance of promoting European Digital Sovereignty against the US and Asia
- [02/04/2025] Arsys, at the annual General Assembly of 8ra
- [20/01/2025] The EU tech industry joins forces to launch the first sovereign cloud-edge platform for Europe
2024
- [13/11/2024] The Government of Spain funds a project by the company Arsys to ensure digital sovereignty in cloud data processing with funds from the ÚNICO IPCEI program
- [30/09/2024] The IPCEI-CIS project stars in NexusForum2024
- [03/06/2024] Arsys presents its contributions to IPCEI-CIS at the AUSAPE Forum
- [11/04/2024] Arsys participates in the first IPCEI-CIS General Assembly
- [07/02/2024] Arsys presents its projects for the IPCEI-CIS in Research to Reality
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