CSA STAR Registry

M.E.T.A. S.r.l is an ICT SME enterprise with a multidisciplinary and multicultural team of professional experts is including: designers, software developers, system administrator, researchers, marketing, sales, trainers. We invest in Research and Development to create technological instruments for Public Administration, Cultural, Digital Publishing, Archives, Libraries, Museums. The cultural organizations exploit the state of the art technologies developed by M.E.T.A. to archive and catalogue documentary collections, migrate data to standard formats and publish service portals to end users, take advantage of federated data aggregations between public administrations/organizations.M.E.T.A. has developed scalable and robust infrastructures used by more than one million end-users, through the AWS Cloud. The frameworks exploit the Load Balancing and automatic provisioning systems (Ansible, Jenkins) and code deployment. It implemented Cache Systems based on Redis to improve further performances and matured valuable experience for the management and use of AWS, EC2, S3 as well as alert systems through the configuration and use of the AWS CloudWatch service. M.E.T.A.’s applications use and deploy Vagrant machines and Docker containers. Different platforms interchange API services and communication protocols are set up regarding Single Sign On, through the use of Shibboleth. Logstash and ElasticSearch are used as Log systems. There is high attention to security, robustness, privacy.