Aruba S.p.A, the main Italian cloud provider and leader in data centre services, web hosting, email, PEC and domain registration, has announced the birth of ArubaKube, a spin-off of the Polytechnic University of Turin and an Aruba centre of excellence for research, development and innovation in cloud native technologies.
The headquarters of ArubaKube is located in Turin, an area of strategic technological importance. It aims to become a new innovation centre that will attract experts in the sector and be recognised as an Italian reference point for young talent looking to become professionals and pioneers of innovation in this area of the cloud industry. It will exist alongside the Aruba Software Factory – opened in 2019, also located in Turin – demonstrating Aruba’s growing commitment to research and innovation in the area and its expanding collaboration with the polytechnic.
ArubaKube aims to build on and enhance research and development projects in the open-source cloud environment by supporting and providing its expertise to the various communities. The unit will also provide enterprise-level support to companies, aiming – for example – to eliminate the risk of vendor lock-in, reducing costs and creating a two-way relationship between each company and the community.
The main objective of this new centre of excellence will be the research and development of innovative solutions that can simplify the management of cloud computing, enabling the simple and dynamic implementation of cloud continuum and Edge-to-cloud continuum paradigms. Attention will also be devoted to the promotion, development and support of open-source projects, with a special focus on the Kubernetes platform.
