Press Releases

Lausanne/Munich, June 17, 2025 – Exoscale, the trusted European cloud infrastructure provider, and Exasol, a specialist in high-performance analytics databases, have today announced a strategic partnership to provide uncompromising data sovereignty and powerful analytics for businesses across Europe. As part of this collaboration, the Exasol Analytics Engine is now natively available in Exoscale’s state-of-the-art data centers in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Bulgaria.

Berlin/Munich, June 3, 2025 – Control over corporate data is increasingly gaining importance in Europe. A recent BARC study, commissioned by Exasol AG and its partners A1 Digital and Dataciders, shows that 84 percent of surveyed companies view data sovereignty as a central point of their strategy, and 70 percent report significantly increased relevance in the past one to two years.

Vienna/Munich, May 26, 2025 – A1 Digital, expert in digital transformation, has just published the results of a current study on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This study shows a mixed picture for IIoT in the DACH region. While interest and willingness to invest in IIoT solutions are high, the study shows that actual implementation and maturity of projects still fall significantly short of expectations. Only a small proportion of companies have implemented IIoT solutions across the board, with many still in the planning or pilot phase.

Vienna/Munich, 9 May 2025 – A1 Digital, an expert in digital transformation, presents a groundbreaking IoT solution for the secure transport of high-value jewellery. In collaboration with Feichtinger Schmuckhandel, one of Austria’s largest jewelry retailers, with 20 branches across the country, a state-of-the-art security system has been developed that sets new standards in transport monitoring.

OpenSearch with Exoscale Powered by Aiven allows A1 Austria to seamlessly move 21TB Elasticsearch workload to OpenSearch; just two A1 Austria engineers now manage the large 30 node-cluster of 21TB storage. Migration vastly improves data analytics to fuel A1 Group’s ambitious cloud journey.

Vienna/Munich, February 20, 2025 – Exoscale, A1 Digital’s cloud service provider, and Austrian company Diggers, are working together on sustainable data centers of the future with a focus on artificial intelligence. Diggers’ innovative liquid cooling solution promises a significant reduction in energy consumption while utilizing the waste heat generated in A1 Group’s data centers.

Vienna/Munich, January 28, 2025 – A1 Digital, an expert in digitalization, announces the successful completion of its participation in the research project “Intelligent Empowerment of Construction Industry” (iECO). Conducted within the framework of the European cloud initiative Gaia-X, the project aims to increase productivity in the construction industry through comprehensive digitalization.

Vienna/Munich, 26. November 2024 – A1 Digital, a digitalization expert, together with Foundry, part of IDG (International Data Group), presents the results of a study on sovereign cloud. An initial assessment shows that only about one-fifth actively use a sovereign cloud.

Vienna/Munich, 22. October 2024 – A1 Digital, a digitalization expert, and Asimily, a specialist in IoT security, have announced a strategic partnership. The collaboration aims to enhance IT security in critical environments – such as hospitals – through the implementation of Asimily's intelligent IoT security solutions.

Vienna(Munich, 25. September 2024 – A1 Digital, an expert in digitalisation, together with its hardware partner Cargomon Systems, has developed an innovative system for weighing freight wagons. With the new system, freight wagons can be optimally filled with a deviation of less than +/- 2% - without the need for long and time-consuming detours via scales. This saves logistics companies a lot of time and money and makes them more competitive compared to road transport.