ARSYS INTERNET SL

Their core work

Arsys Internet is a commercial cloud and web hosting provider based in Logroño, Spain, offering infrastructure services including managed hosting, cloud compute, domains, and business email to Spanish and European SMEs. In the H2020 context, they contributed as an industry end-user and cloud infrastructure testbed — providing real operational environments for research on cloud security and multi-cloud application portability. Their value in research consortia lies in grounding academic work in production-grade cloud reality, validating prototypes against live infrastructure, and representing the commercial cloud provider perspective. They are not a research organisation: they are an industry practitioner whose participation signals practical applicability.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects started within a single year (2015–2016), making meaningful trend analysis across time difficult — this is a snapshot of activity rather than a long arc of development. The thematic shift between projects is nonetheless telling: TREDISEC focused on securing cloud data and building trust mechanisms, while DECIDE moved toward operational agility and cross-cloud application deployment. This suggests a progression from security-first concerns toward broader cloud interoperability and DevOps practices, consistent with how the cloud industry evolved in the mid-2010s. No H2020 activity appears after 2016, so it is unknown whether they continued in EU research.

Within their short H2020 window, Arsys moved from cloud trust and security toward multi-cloud interoperability — but their absence from projects after 2016 makes it unclear whether they remain active in EU-funded research.

How they like to work

Arsys has never held a coordinator role across either project, consistently joining as a participant — consistent with an industry company contributing operational expertise rather than driving research agendas. They worked in what appear to be moderately sized consortia (18 unique partners across 2 projects), suggesting broad multi-partner collaborations typical of RIA projects. This profile fits an organisation that adds value as an industry validator or testbed provider rather than as a scientific or technical lead.

Arsys has collaborated with 18 unique partners across 8 countries through two projects, indicating engagement in genuinely pan-European consortia. No repeated partner patterns are detectable from two projects alone, so network loyalty versus breadth cannot be assessed.

What sets them apart

Unlike universities or research institutes in cloud security consortia, Arsys brings production-scale cloud infrastructure and a real commercial customer base — making them a credible industry end-user who can validate research under actual operational conditions. For consortium builders, their value is not deep research output but market anchoring: they can confirm whether a prototype works in a live hosting environment and whether a solution is commercially viable for European SMEs. That said, with only two projects and no coordination history, their EU research engagement appears limited and likely opportunistic rather than strategic.

Highlights from their portfolio

• TREDISEC
  The larger of the two projects (€379,156) and the one most aligned with Arsys's core business, addressing cloud data security — a domain where a commercial hosting operator adds direct credibility.
• DECIDE
  Targeted the EU Digital Single Market through multi-cloud portability and DevOps, placing Arsys at the intersection of cloud industry practice and EU policy-driven research.