It happened today the meeting at Ponte San Pietro, in the province of Bergamo, between Stefano Cecconi, CEO of Aruba, Stéphane Boujnah and Giorgio Modica, Euronext CEO and CFO respectively which in 2022 should bring its data center from London to the Bergamo center. The meeting was also attended by Giorgio Gori, Mayor of Bergamo, and Matteo Macoli, Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Ponte San Pietro. The meeting arrives in fact following the announcement of Euronext – the main pan-European financial market and stock exchange – which will relocate the main data center of the group in Ponte San Pietro at the Global Cloud Data Center in Aruba.
For this Stéphane Boujnah today stopped at the Aruba campus and visited the facility, led by the landlord Stefano Cecconi, who showed him part of the 200,000 square meters of surface area of which the largest campus data center in Italy consists. According to Euronext, the first part of the migration, subject to the approval of the authorities and operational aspects, is set for 2022.
The transfer, explain the two companies, it was decided in response to multiple factors, first of all the acquisition of Borsa Italiana, but also the dynamics created by Brexit and a strong desire to locate the group’s main data center in a country where Euronext has large operations. The migration was designed so that you can be ready for the passage of the Borsa Italiana markets on the Optiq trading platform by 2023.
Regarding the agreement, Stefano Cecconi, Aruba’s Chief Executive Officer, commented that “the choice of Euronext to move its platform from the current Data Center in London to ours in Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo, as part of the shares linked to the acquisition of Borsa Italiana it is a source of pride for us “commented Aruba CEO Stefano Cecconi. The manager pointed out that “Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center certainly has what it takes to meet Euronext’s needs, both for the modularity and resilience of the infrastructure and, not a secondary factor, because it is a ‘truly’ green data center designed to minimize environmental impacts “.
Stéphane Boujnah, CEO of Euronext underlined that “with the transfer of its central data center to Italy, Euronext has made its largest IT investment since its inception, after the creation of Optiq, our trading platform. “This is, noted the CEO,” an exceptional event, because the data center is the heart of all the trading activity of the new combined group, which now comprises seven exchanges. We are very happy to have the opportunity to establish this infrastructure in Bergamo, because testifies to the centrality that Italy has in Euronext. The Data Center will also have an essential role in bringing Italy back to the center of European finance.