Service · Servers in NIT datacenters

Server installation and management in the main datacenters of Northern Italy.

We support Italian and foreign companies in datacenter operations across Northern Italy: from installation of AI servers with NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs to 24/7 maintenance, from physical remote-hands access to security systems implementation. Vendor-independent, we operate inside your colocation as an extension of your IT team.

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02 / AI & GPU server installation

AI & GPU server installation

  • Rack-mount hardware: NVIDIA H100/H200 SXM/PCIe, AMD MI300X, A100 80GB; Dell PowerEdge XE9680, HPE Cray, Supermicro AS-8125GS, Lenovo ThinkSystem SR685a V3
  • Power & cooling profiling: kW budget check per rack (30-50 kW high-density), Direct Liquid Cooling and rear-door heat exchanger support
  • High-bandwidth networking: 10/25/100/400 Gbps cabling, InfiniBand HDR/NDR, RoCE v2 for multi-node training, LACP bonding
  • Firmware bring-up: BIOS tuning for AI workloads, BMC/iLO/iDRAC, secure boot, IPMI hardening, firmware baseline verification
  • Bare-metal OS & runtime: Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 LTS, RHEL 9, Rocky Linux; NVIDIA driver + CUDA toolkit, NCCL, MIG, container toolkit
  • Orchestration: Kubernetes with GPU Operator, Slurm for HPC, Run:AI, Determined.AI for training queue management
  • Validation & benchmark: stress-ng, gpu-burn, NCCL all-reduce, MLPerf Inference baseline, P2P bandwidth test
03 / Remote-hands & datacenter access

Physical access in remote-hands

  • Access procedures: badge / biometric / escort on your behalf, visit-pass management with datacenter NOCs
  • Pickup SLA: within 2h in Milan area, 3-4h in wider areas; 24/7 on-call for emergencies
  • FRU replacement: disks, PSUs, RAM, GPUs, NICs; module reseating, PCIe seating verification
  • Cabling & labelling: tidy patch panels, TIA-606 labelling, updated mapping, OM4/OS2 fiber dressing
  • Console & power cycling: serial console, KVM-over-IP, controlled power cycling with PDU verification
  • Photo audit: pre/post intervention report with photos and detailed ticket, hand-over to the client
04 / 24/7 sysadmin support

Continuous operations and support

  • Monitoring stack: Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Netdata; SNMP, IPMI, custom exporter integration
  • Multichannel alerting: PagerDuty, Opsgenie, email/SMS/Telegram, multi-level escalation policies
  • 24/7 SLA: pickup ≤ 15 min, recovery ≤ 4h for critical incidents (Sev-1)
  • Patching & hardening: agreed window, rollback plan, CIS Benchmark, STIG on request
  • Log management: ELK Stack, Grafana Loki, Splunk; compliance retention, queryable from client console
  • Reporting: monthly report: uptime, MTTR, MTBF, RCA for major outages, capacity trends
05 / Physical & cyber security

Security systems implementation

  • OS hardening: CIS Benchmark Level 1/2, STIG, ANSSI; audit-ready configuration
  • Identity & access: MFA on all admin access, jump hosts, ZTNA (Zscaler, Cloudflare Access, Tailscale Enterprise)
  • Network segmentation: Zero Trust microsegmentation, identity-based firewalls, VRF for multi-tenancy
  • Immutable backup: Veeam Hardened Repository, WORM object storage (Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Azure Blob immutable), air-gap
  • EDR / XDR: CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity, Microsoft Defender XDR, Sophos Intercept X
  • Vulnerability management: Nessus, Qualys, Rapid7 InsightVM; recurring scanning + remediation tracking
  • Compliance: preparation for ISO 27001 audit (yours), NIS2, GDPR; operational documentation auditor-ready
06 / Northern Italy datacenters covered

Where we operate on-site

We work in the main datacenters of Northern Italy on behalf of clients who have colocated their infrastructure there. We operate as independent third party: no affiliation with datacenter operators, no lock-in.

Milan metropolitan area

Equinix ML1–ML6 Caldera · Milano Global colo
Data4 MIL01–MIL03 Cornaredo (MI)
Stack EMEA MIL01–MIL04 Settimo Milanese (MI)
Digital Realty MIL1–MIL2 Caldera (MI) ex Interxion
Vantage Data Centers MIL01 Milano
IRIDEOS Avalon Caldera (MI)
CDLan Caldera Park Settimo Milanese (MI)
WIIT Settimo Milanese (MI)

Bergamo province

Aruba IT3 Ponte San Pietro (BG) Tier IV

Pavia province

Supernap Italia SUP1 Siziano (PV)

Brescia province

Open Hub Med Brescia

Aosta Valley

Engineering D HUB Pont-Saint-Martin (AO)

Distributed sites

TIM Sparkle Milano · Torino Sedi metropolitane

Colocated in a datacenter not listed? Contact us anyway: we operate off-list after verifying access procedures.

07 / How we operate

Intervention methodology

  • Pre-intervention audit — target hardware inventory, scope-of-work, window scheduling, ticket opening with the datacenter NOC
  • Coordination — alignment with client IT manager + datacenter operations, access and PDU confirmation
  • Execution — on-site team with real-time photo report via ticket, continuous communication with the remote client
  • Validation — smoke test, baseline performance, monitoring check, cabling verification
  • Hand-over — updated LLD, runbook, escalation contact list, final photos; client sign-off
  • Maintenance — entry into monthly on-call cycle or on-demand, continuous monitoring if subscribed
08 / Datacenter & remote-hands FAQ

Most frequent technical questions.

Which Northern Italy datacenters do you cover for remote-hands?+
We operate in the main ones: Aruba (BG), Equinix Milan (ML1-ML6), Data4 Cornaredo, Stack Settimo Milanese, Digital Realty, Vantage, Supernap (PV), IRIDEOS Avalon, CDLan, WIIT, Engineering D HUB (AO), Open Hub Med Brescia, TIM Sparkle. Also datacenters not listed, after verifying access procedures.
AI GPU server install: which stacks do you support?+
Bare-metal Ubuntu/RHEL/Rocky with NVIDIA driver + CUDA + NCCL + container toolkit; orchestration with Kubernetes (GPU Operator), Slurm, Run:AI, Determined.AI. Hardware Dell XE9680, HPE Cray, Supermicro 8125GS, Lenovo SR685a with H100/H200 SXM, A100, AMD MI300X GPUs.
Average remote-hands time in Milan area?+
≤ 2 hours from request for datacenters in Milan metropolitan area (Caldera, Cornaredo, Settimo Milanese, Ponte San Pietro). 24/7 on-call with 15-minute pickup SLA for emergencies.
Do you also work for foreign clients with servers colocated in Italy?+
Yes. Many European clients (UK, DE, FR, CH, AT) have colocation in Italy and use us as local remote-hands. English communication, tickets via Jira/ServiceNow/email, standard EU B2B invoicing.
Vendor-independence: what does it mean concretely?+
We don't resell licences, have no exclusive reseller agreements, receive no commissions from manufacturers. We recommend the architecture best suited to your use case even when it goes against the market "default".
24/7 SLA for continuous sysadmin support: how does it work?+
Monthly or annual contract, pickup ≤ 15 min 24/7 for Sev-1, recovery ≤ 4h. On-call senior team rotation. Monthly uptime/MTTR/MTBF report + documented RCA for every major outage.
Security implementation: cyber side only or also physical?+
Both: physical side we help with badge access, biometrics, video surveillance, rack separation; cyber side with OS hardening (CIS/STIG), MFA/ZTNA, microsegmentation, EDR, immutable backup and preparation for ISO 27001/NIS2 audits.
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