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Presented at GX Summit 2023, the Aruba Digital Clearing House Solution, gateway to the Gaia-X federated cloud

Aruba continues its commitment to the project created to establish a European standard for data management and access, based on security and respect for privacy, by presenting an end-to-end solution for certified onboarding in the Gaia-X ecosystem.

Aruba S.p.A., the main Italian provider of cloud services and the leader in Italy for data centre services, cloud, hosting, trust services, e-mail, PEC (certified emails), domain registration and digital signatures, today announces the new end-to-end Aruba Digital Clearing House Solution that enables automated verification of compliance with Gaia-X rules. This solution was presented by Aruba - as Gaia-X accredited - during the Gaia-X Summit 2023 (Alicante, 9-10th November), organised to present progress in the digitisation of the sector and the exploration of cooperative digital ecosystems.

The Aruba Digital Clearing House Solution, presented in beta version, acts as the gateway to the Gaia-X ecosystem. This is thanks to the provision of access credentials through certificates and tools that comply with the European eIDAS standard and therefore the certification of services that will be part of the federated catalogue. The new solution has an extremely simplified customer onboarding user experience, with an interface that can be used to obtain and manage the verified credentials (Gaia-X Verifiable Credentials, VC) to certify one’s own services. The solution also integrates and amplifies the components made available by Gaia-X by proposing additional functions, such as verifiable credentials as a service, catalogue as a service, data space as a service, wallet as a service and others.

The aim is to offer a fully supported and managed onboarding process. The solution takes care of all the complexities involved in managing the submission of verifiable credentials through an extremely simple and versatile process. It is an end-to-end solution offering advanced services that support every customer interested in joining Gaia-X. From publishing its own certified services in Gaia-X catalogues, to the consultation of services offered by other operators, and the creation and management of Gaia-X compliant services and data products, customers will have a single provider as a contact point through which it can also acquire the necessary certificates (eIDAS or SSL EV) to sign the VCs and complete the entire process.

As additional features, Aruba’s Digital Clearing House Solution offers components that include services interfaced with APIs and a tool which, through a wizard, makes further services available.

“Thanks to the Aruba Digital Clearing House Solution, Aruba is the point of reference for the enabling of services within the Gaia-X ecosystem and provides customers with the entire Gaia-X compliant technological stack for the provision of services” commented Stefano Sordi, General Manager of Aruba S.p.A. “As a cloud and trust service provider at a European level we have all the necessary expertise to do this. In fact, we provide services and infrastructures that are already compatible with today’s European standards, and we are also contributing to defining and building future standards thanks to the complete cloud platform that resides in our European data centres. In addition to enabling access to the Gaia-X ecosystem, we provide qualified services compliant with the European eIDAS regulation.”

During the GX Summit, and as a part of the Structura-X project, within which Aruba plays an active part, Liqo was also presented - an open source solution developed by ArubaKube, the new centre of excellence for research, development, and innovation in the cloud native sphere and spin off of the Polytechnic University of Turin. The solution makes it possible to build and orchestrate multi-cloud services and thus create, in a transparent and dynamic manner, a virtual infrastructure capable of aggregating resources and services belonging to different infrastructures or cloud service providers.

“We are proud to be leaders in the building of the future of the European cloud industry, first as a part of CISPE and today with Gaia-X and Structura-X” continued Sordi. “We actively collaborate with our European partners to achieve a cloud ecosystem that promotes data sovereignty and digital innovation. Choosing Aruba today means choosing a reliable, expert partner that acts on European values, which can accompany businesses on a digital transformation journey, keeping to the data governance models based on European principles, values, and standards.”

What is Gaia-X? Gaia-X was born with the intention of creating a digital ecosystem based on a framework that provides for the respect of European principles, such as transparency, interoperability, portability and sovereignty of users over their data, defining the rules and the technological stack to control it. At the same time, the framework encourages the widest participation and competition among cloud solution providers, with a certification system at the compliance level that guarantees the exercise of the right and protection of data. 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 with security standards guaranteed by the European institutional system.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Aruba SpA .