Ionic has announced the development of Ionoraan initiative that aims to Development of an open, sovereign and sustainable reference infrastructure for Europe. The project is framed in the European IPCEI-CIS initiative (Important Projects of Common European Interest – Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services) and has a budget of 16.8 million euros.
Of these, 6.8 million euros are financed by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Action of Germany. The main objective of IPCEI-CIS is to generate an ecosystem of Cloud Edge continuum with several suppliers, open to all actors in the sector and adaptable to several industrial use cases. There are currently agencies of a dozen EU countries working on more than a hundred projects in the framework of IPCEI-CIS, which has a budget of 3.5 billion euros.
The Ionora project, in which Ionos works, has three fundamental pillars. The first is the development of an interoperable cloud platform. In fact, Ionos is developing a flexible infrastructure with which to improve interoperability between the different cloud services. As more and more services depend on cloud infrastructure, it is important that the different cloud systems can work together and communicate with peripheral systems, such as smartphones and IoT devices.
An important basis to achieve this is the use of open standards and common APIS. The Ionora platform allows you to provide AI cloud servers for peripheral applications, connect identity management systems such as LDAP and use telemetry -based monitoring technologies. In addition, it uses open hardware components, such as switches, compatible with third -party software, which guarantees interoperability in the network environment.
Another of the pillars of the Ionora project is the development of industrial use cases for the connection of cloud services with perimeter systems. Ionora is designed to impact the European industry, providing greater digital sovereignty and more competitiveness.
In addition, Ionos works with other partners, such as the Cloud OpenEbula computer platform and the German Internet exchange point De-Cix, to boost innovation in connectivity and data management. The Arsys company, a company of the Ionos Group, is also collaborating in the IPCEI-CIS project, working in an initiative linked to the Spanish government.
Finally, the third pillar of the Ionora Project is the development of sustainable and environmentally respectful network infrastructure and technologies. Due to the increase in energy consumption derived from AI applications and the massive use of GPUS, Ionos is investigating new systems for reducing the environmental impact of data centers.
Among the measures that are taking for it are the optimization of the existing infrastructure, and the implementation of technologies such as liquid cooling. In the test and development center that it has in France, Ionos is developing more effective infrastructure concepts, in addition to working on the development of new server concepts to significantly reduce energy consumption.
Ionora is considered a key IPCEI-CIS initiativewith the aim of providing sectors such as manufacturing, mobility, health and energy applications in real time that are energy safe and efficient.
