Amid the rapid acceleration of digital transformation and with Europe’s data center map in full bloom, Sercom Cloud & Support introduces Nuvulus Public Cloud®, a platform that positions itself as the first Catalan public cloud designed by and for local businesses. This proposal arrives with a clear promise: power and scalability that have made giants like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure popular, but tailored to local needs, with own infrastructure in Catalonia and a guiding principle woven throughout the design: technological sovereignty over data.
The context supports this move. According to industry body Spain DC, the capacity of data centers in Barcelona could reach 199 MW by 2030, almost tripling the current 66 MW. Across the country, Spain could attract more than €43.7 billion in direct investments if the announced projects materialize. In this landscape — marked by growing demand for reliable, flexible, and locally controlled cloud services — Nuvulus positions itself as an alternative with Catalan proximity and a clear governance over where data resides, is processed, and stored.
“Catalan companies need access to powerful cloud services that understand their reality and regulations. Until now, many depended on international providers, facing complex regulations and data location issues that don’t always guarantee local sovereignty. Nuvulus Public Cloud enables companies to have control and transparency over their data at all times, thus strengthening their competitiveness,” explains Jordi Carbó, CEO of Sercom.
What is Nuvulus and what makes it different
Nuvulus emerges as a next-generation public cloud with a stated goal: to provide capacity, performance, and hyperscale elasticity — but based on three core principles:
- Proximity: the platform operates from three interconnected data centers in Catalonia, enabling microsecond latencies internally and a uniform access to services from anywhere in the community.
- Sovereignty: Nuvulus guarantees that all data is processed and stored entirely within Catalonia. This feature — increasingly demanded by healthcare, public administration, finance, and insurance sectors — simplifies compliance and minimizes exposure to jurisdictional uncertainties.
- Distributed architecture: unlike centralized models that concentrate loads and risk bottlenecks, the platform balances data and processes across multiple points. According to Sercom, this results in steady performance, fault tolerance, and minimal latencies even during sudden peaks or incidents at a single location.
This combination —interconnected data centers, distributed design, and local residency— points to a pattern increasingly seen in edge-ready deployments: bringing capacity and data closer to critical users and processes, while maintaining operational coherence and governance within a defined perimeter.
A local response to a global demand
The launch of Nuvulus comes at a time when many local companies — SMBs and large organizations — have already adopted cloud services to accelerate projects, reduce costs, and increase resilience. However, this widespread adoption has raised new questions: Where do my data reside? Which regulations apply if data leaves the country? What actual latency do I have to my critical applications? What controls do I have over location changes or disaster recovery plans?
Nuvulus aims to answer with a clear value proposition for Catalan businesses:
- Guaranteed residence of data in Catalonia, with local processing and local custody.
- Low latency, supported by microsecond transits between three connected data centers.
- High availability and continuity thanks to a distributed architecture that mitigates single points of failure.
- Guidance and support from a team with over 20 years of experience in cloud projects and tech infrastructure.
Sercom — with clients like CaixaBank, Vueling, MRW, and Tous, among others — knows the flip side of the promise: seamless adoption and daily operations of platforms that cannot afford downtime. Nuvulus appears built with that urgency in mind: ensuring continuity, growth capacity, and stability for business applications.
Investment, employment, and goals over four years
The company has already made an initial investment of €1 million to launch the platform and plans to quadruple it — up to €4 million — over a four-year plan. During this period, Sercom will double its team, from 50 employees now to 100 professionals.
Business forecasts are ambitious but aligned with market trends: over 200 Catalan companies could migrate their applications and data to Nuvulus Public Cloud in the next four years. In an ecosystem where response times, data residency, nearby support, and predictable costs drive decisions, that number seems plausible.
Sovereignty and proximity as assets for critical sectors
Healthcare, public administration, insurers, and industries with complex supply chains share rigid compliance, traceability, and response time needs. Nuvulus emerges with that critical use in mind: three data centers to balance loads, replicate, and orchestrate processes; microsecond internal latencies for time-sensitive applications; and local residency to simplify audits and reduce risk.
The public sector — a key driver of digitalization — can find in Nuvulus a way to consolidate loads requiring sovereignty, and an element aligned with European strategies emphasizing data control and computational proximity.
A “hyperscale” locally? Realistic capacity with a practical focus
The platform is presented with an ambitious subtitle: “the same technological power as the American giants,” a message that — as a reminder — does not suggest catalog parity or global mass, but a performance and elasticity experience comparable in the local sphere for specific use cases. Scalability, demand peaks, deployment automation, observability: Nuvulus’s architecture aims to tick these boxes with local control as a key differentiator.
The advantage lies not in imitating the hundreds of services offered by a hyperscaler, but in solving well the local requirements prioritized by Catalan businesses: low latency, residency, compliance, support, and transparency.
Sercom: two decades of expertise at the forefront
Few things weigh more than a track record. Sercom has accumulated more than 20 years in cloud projects and infrastructures for clients with critical operations. This experience translates into a mature learning curve — methodologies, playbooks, incident management — and a closeness appreciated by the local business landscape: visiting a data center an hour from headquarters or discussing security policies with a team within the same time zone instills confidence.
Implications for the Catalan ecosystem
The public cloud is no longer just a technical tool; it’s investment, employment, and competitiveness. A local provider with ambition raises the bar: partners, universities, training, and profiles retained within the territory, communities of practice, and opportunities for startups needing nearby platforms. If the market confirms the Spain DC forecasts, Nuvulus arrives at an opportune moment.
Challenges ahead
No launch is without challenges. Nuvulus will need to balance the sovereignty promise with the compatibility the IT teams demand (data formats, APIs, tooling); grow in managed services beyond basic compute and storage; and maintain pace in capacity, security, and operations. The key is to focus: excel at solving critical cases where proximity and governance outweigh an extensive catalog.
A step in the right direction
Nuvulus is not just a slogan of “digital sovereignty”; it’s an operational infrastructure with three data centers, distributed architecture, microsecond latencies, and a roadmap aiming at 200 migrations and €4 million in investments over four years. In a market where hyperscalers remain **the central piece** of many strategies, having local options with judgment and capacity is healthy for Catalan business fabric.
If the main thesis is that not everything should reside in “another jurisdiction,” Nuvulus stands at the core: close to the customer, aligned with regulation, and designed for those who measure time in milliseconds… or microseconds.