Verne Global - The Rock

Ficolo, founded in 2011, is a data center company specializing in Cloud Delivery services. Ficolo has three data centers: The Air in Helsinki, The Rock in Pori, and The Deck in Tampere. In addition, the company operates the Ficolo-IX Connectivity Hub in Helsinki. Ficolo also provides cloud and data center connectivity services, SDN-based cloud networking and a centralized multi-cloud management solution.

Ficolo helps its customers transform their business model into a cloud-based model the company offers all the service components required to provide global cloud services, from colocation spaces to connectivity and state-of-the-art data security services.

Ficolo's data center The Rock in Ulvila, western Finland, is located inside Finnish bedrock in an underground network of tunnels. Originally quarried by the Finnish Defence Forces in the 1960s, the facility is now fully owned by Ficolo after being decades almost empty.

The modular structure of the data center provides excellent prerequisites for security and scalability. The premises fully support both shared data center spaces as well as fully customized dedicated data center spaces. The tunnel halls are independent from each other allowing customers to have e.g. two entirely independent data centers in the same premises
The facility comprises of 9 separate tunnel halls (500m2 and 800m2), in total of 8500m2
The bedrock data center provides built-in security which have been enhanced with modern security solutions. The data center environment has been built to guarantee high availability, generators and a separate UPS system to ensure the reliability of the power supply

The data center is carrier neutral. Fibre connectivity is available from all main carriers in Finland.

In terms of environmental impacts, energy efficiency and 100% wind-powered operations withstand international comparison.