The Strategic National Pole (PSN) initiative marks a crucial turning point for the Italian public sector, designed to guide institutions toward more efficient, secure, and sustainable management of data and services. With a deadline set for June 2026, the goal is ambitious: at least 40% of the public sector’s digital services must be migrated to innovative cloud platforms, ensuring a reliable and resilient infrastructure.
To achieve this goal, cutting-edge technologies and partners capable of providing tailored solutions are required. This is where AXOL Server comes into play, working alongside public-sector organizations to turn challenges into opportunities.
What is PSN: innovation and security
The Strategic National Pole (PSN), established as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, aims to revolutionize public digital infrastructure. This initiative enables public-sector organizations to migrate systems, applications, and datasets from physical servers to virtual machines and to secure, scalable infrastructure.
The main objectives are:
- strengthening data security against cyber threats;
- improving operational efficiency through centralization of resources;
- ensuring environmental sustainability through greener data centers.
Aimed at central and local public-sector bodies, such as municipalities, universities, local health authorities, and hospitals, the PSN is a practical response to the need for the digitalization and modernization of public services.
Server virtualization in the public sector: a step toward the future
Virtualization is a crucial step in the digital transformation of the public sector. With virtualization, server physical resources, such as CPU, RAM, and storage, are abstracted and allocated to virtual machines (VMs) and managed by the Proxmox hypervisor. This brings major benefits for public-sector organizations:
- system scalability, allowing for future expansion or reduction of resources thanks to the ability to add nodes;
- greater operational flexibility and reduced reliance on specific physical devices;
- resilience: business continuity even in the event of failures;
- minimized data recovery times thanks to the Proxmox disaster recovery system;
- cost savings and always up-to-date tools.
This technology not only meets the needs of today’s public-sector organizations, but also lays a solid foundation for a future in which data and services will be increasingly accessible and secure.
How AXOL Server supports the public sector
AXOL Server supports public-sector organizations at every stage of their journey toward the digitalization of resources, offering expertise, technology, and a tailored approach to ensure successful data migration. Thanks to our experience with Proxmox-based server clusters and Ceph storage, we are able to create high-availability server infrastructure that meets the requirements of the Strategic National Pole (PSN) initiative.
Here’s how we can help you.
- Tailored design. We build scalable and resilient infrastructure, tailoring it to the specific needs of the organization: municipalities, provincial authorities, universities, local health authorities (ASL) and hospital organizations (AO)
- Business continuity ensured through a 24/7 system with automatic failover
- Disaster recovery. We guarantee rapid recovery and business continuity, minimizing the impact of any failures
- Resource optimization. We make the most of existing servers, reducing costs and waste
- Environmental sustainability. We implement solutions that meet the latest energy efficiency standards
- We can provide rack space ranging from 1U to 40U in a Rating 4 data center (formerly Tier IV, the highest level of resilience certified under ANSI/TIA-942) located in Italy, with 8 redundant fiber-optic connections (TIM, Fastweb, Wind Tre, Vodafone, Retelit, Cogent, Irideos, Planetel), providing access to the main Italian and European internet backbones, and two separate power centers
- AXOL Server clusters comply with GDPR and NIS2 requirements
MePA, Sintel, Place-VDA
We are registered on MePA, Sintel (Lombardy Region), and Place-VDA (Aosta Valley), and we are able to work directly with and supply any public authority.
