Lepida : Ferrara Data Center

The Ferrara Data Center, operated by Lepida, is part of the Emilia-Romagna region’s institutional digital infrastructure ecosystem, providing secure, high-availability colocation and cloud services for public administrations, healthcare institutions, universities, and regional enterprises. Strategically located in Ferrara, the facility contributes to Lepida’s mission of delivering resilient, scalable, and sovereign digital infrastructure that supports the digital transformation of the Emilia-Romagna territory. The data center is engineered for energy efficiency, service continuity, and compliance with Italy’s stringent public-sector requirements, making it a trusted hosting environment for mission-critical workloads.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

1. Enterprise-class infrastructure supporting continuous operation for public-sector and enterprise workloads.
2. Redundant power architecture, including UPS-conditioned feeds and backup generator capacity.
3. High-efficiency cooling systems that maintain stable thermal conditions and support sustainable facility operations.
4. Designed for regional cloud and hybrid IT, integrating seamlessly with Lepida’s community cloud, connectivity services, and data-processing platforms.
5. Flexible colocation models, including rack-level hosting, private cages, and dedicated environments for regulated workloads.
6. Support services such as monitoring, remote hands, backup, and disaster-recovery capabilities through Lepida’s digital ecosystem.

🔐 Security & Compliance

1. Multi-layer physical security, including controlled facility access, surveillance, and restricted data-hall entry.
2. Compliance with Italian public-administration digital standards, ensuring alignment with AGID (Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale) guidelines for data-center quality, continuity, and security.
3. Supported by Lepida’s broader certification ecosystem, which includes:
4. ISO 27001 (Information Security)
5. ISO 9001 (Quality Management)
6. ISO 22301 (Business Continuity)
7. Fire detection and suppression, featuring early smoke detection and gas-based suppression systems.
8. Secure client zones, with dedicated rack and cage options suitable for sensitive public-sector operations.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

1. Carrier-neutral foundation, benefiting from Lepida’s extensive regional fiber backbone connecting municipalities, healthcare facilities, universities, and regional agencies.
2. High-capacity bandwidth options, with redundant paths to ensure uptime and performance for mission-critical applications.
3. Cross-connect capability enabling customer routing flexibility, multi-carrier redundancy, and seamless integration with community cloud services.
4. Optimized for services requiring low latency within Emilia-Romagna as well as interconnection to national and European networks.

💼 Who It Serves

1. Public administrations seeking sovereign, compliant data hosting within the regional digital infrastructure.
2. Healthcare organizations and research institutions requiring reliable, compliant environments for sensitive workloads.
3. Enterprises adopting hybrid cloud or regional IT footprints, prioritizing data locality and reliability.
4. Universities & educational networks leveraging high-bandwidth, low-latency compute and storage resources.
5. Organizations requiring disaster-recovery or secondary-site hosting within Emilia-Romagna.