Over 1,000 pieces of equipment and 4 data centers: Romania’s Government Private Cloud enters the operational stage at national level

• Infrastructure scale: 4 regional data centers, 570 servers, over 90 storage systems, approximately 340 networking devices
• Implementation: carried out by a team of dozens of engineers and specialists, in collaboration with the Special Telecommunications Service
• Impact: The Government Cloud will ensure interoperability, good data governance, integrated cybersecurity, scalability, and reduced IT costs. As a result, public digital services will become faster, safer, and better connected nationwide.

Romania’s Government Private Cloud, the largest critical digital infrastructure developed in the country, is entering the operational stage at national level and will serve as the technical foundation for the state’s digital public services. The implementation involved building an Internal Cloud infrastructure, distributed across four data centers — Bucharest, Timiș, Brașov, and Sibiu — to ensure operational continuity nationwide.

The system is based on 570 server systems supporting processing, storage, backup, and mission-critical functions, 91 storage systems (block, file, and object), as well as over 340 networking devices. At the software level, the platform integrates automation and management solutions that allow the development and operation of digital services in a secure and scalable environment, suitable for a critical national infrastructure.

The implementation was carried out by a team of dozens of engineers and specialists who worked closely with experts from the Special Telecommunications Service (STS) to integrate and operationalize the infrastructure at national level.

Ovidiu Ghiman, CEO of Metaminds, the company that, together with Trencadis Corp, implemented the Internal Cloud component, stated: “This project reflects our team’s ability to implement complex solutions with a major impact on digital public services for citizens. Throughout the process, we consistently aligned with the high standards required by the project and the beneficiary. All of this confirms both the strong technical expertise of our team and the commitment, responsibility, and professionalism with which every step of this project was implemented.”

By June 2026, at least 30 IT&C applications and systems through which government digital services are delivered will be migrated to the cloud, with Metaminds being one of the technology service providers involved in this process.

The beneficiary of the migration process is the Authority for the Digitalization of Romania (ADR), together with the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, acting as reform coordinator.

The migration will allow public institutions to exchange data more efficiently, enabling citizens to access documents and services online more easily, faster, and securely. For public administration, the Government Private Cloud will optimize costs by eliminating fragmented IT systems and will provide a secure and scalable framework for developing and operating digital services nationwide.

The implementation of the Government Private Cloud is carried out by the Authority for the Digitalization of Romania (ADR), acting as beneficiary, partner, and contracting authority, responsible for coordinating the project and managing the Dedicated Cloud Component, in partnership with the Special Telecommunications Service (STS) — the technical and security administrator of the Internal component of the Government Private Cloud — and the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI).

The Special Telecommunications Service will manage the core infrastructure and key components of the Internal Government Private Cloud — Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) services. Through IaaS, public institutions will benefit from virtualized computing resources — servers, storage, and networking — provided in a secure and scalable environment. PaaS provides standardized platforms for the development, testing, and operation of the Romanian state’s IT applications, facilitating interoperability and reducing the implementation time of digital services.

The Internal Cloud Component is implemented by the consortium Metaminds – Trencadis Corp, forming the foundation of a secure, interoperable, and scalable cloud infrastructure for the state’s IT systems.