Because Fastweb relies on Amazon and Engineering to do business with the PA
Fastweb has signed an agreement with Amazon Web Services to support the digital transition of the Public Administration and presented with Engineering the proposal for the PSN, the infrastructure for the cloud management of data and applications of the Public Administration
Fastweb teams up with the US giant Amazon, leader in the cloud market, to attract contracts on the digitization of the PA.
The Italian operator controlled by the Swisscom group and Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud division, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to accelerate digital innovation and technological development of businesses, small and medium-sized companies, and of the Public Administration. The partnership will take shape through the joint development of advanced solutions in the Cloud and Edge computing fields.
Fastweb, reads the statement issued, "the collaboration with Aws – the first of its kind in the Italian telecommunications market – opens new possibilities for development, based on the skills and technological solutions of the two companies."
Meanwhile, the company led by Alberto Calcagno has also formed a consortium to participate in the tender for the national cloud.
On 31 October Fastweb and Engineering presented to the Ministry for Innovation and Digital Transition (Mitd) a joint proposal for the construction and management of the National Strategic Pole (Psn), the infrastructure intended to host strategic data and services in the cloud. of the Pa.
So no more alliance with Oracle, Fincantieri and Irideos (as was rumored in recent months) for Fastweb which presents itself with the software and technology group led by Maximo Ibarra.
The consortiums competing for the cloud therefore rise to three after that of Cdp, Leonardo, Sogei and Tim and that of Almaviva and Aruba .
All three have made it known that they will join a Newco if the contract is awarded to them.
All the details.
THE COLLABORATION OF FASTWEB WITH AMAZON WEB SERVICES
Let's start with the agreement of the Italian operator with Amazon.
As the note explains, “thanks to this collaboration, Fastweb's Cloud offer is enriched to make a solution available to Italian companies and the PA that runs on the AWS Cloud”.
THE NEW OFFER
In particular, the collaboration "will allow us to offer maximum scalability, according to a hybrid model that ensures performance and security and at the same time flexibility and the availability of a wide range of value-added services, including migration, security, analysis and Edge solutions. Computing ".
In addition, Fastweb will start a training dedicated to the AWS world and will train over 350 sales and technical employees.
FOR CUSTOMERS THE ITALIAN OPERATOR REMAINS THE SOLE INTERLOCUTOR
The company specifies that "customers will therefore be able to rely on Fastweb as the only interlocutor for their digital transformation processes and the end-to-end management of AWS application migration, development and management solutions, in addition to performance monitoring, backup and recovery, in order to accelerate innovation cycles, reduce risks and increase the efficiency of companies ".
STRENGTHENING THE CLOUD STRATEGY
Therefore, “the agreement is part of a path to strengthen Fastweb's strategy in the Cloud environment”. Fastweb in fact recalled the opening of a new state-of-the-art Data Center in Rome in addition to the one in Milan ”.
The latter aimed at doubling the "proximity" infrastructures for data processing services and computational capacity – which allows Fastweb customers to access hybrid cloud features, such as AWS Outposts – in addition to the acquisition of Cutaway – a company specializing in ICT projects – in June 2020 to strengthen AWS skills and increase the portfolio of solutions and services dedicated to businesses and public administrations.
FORECAST FOR THE COMPETITION FOR THE NATIONAL STRATEGIC POLE
In the meantime, the race for the national cloud is getting fiercer. Fastweb also joined the race.
Between the National Strategic Pole and the migration of the entire Public Administration to the cloud, the government has allocated 1.9 billion euros under the Pnrr.
For the assignment of the PSN, the government has chosen the formula of public-private partnership.
THE ROPES ON THE RACE
On 28 September Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Leonardo, Sogei and Tim jointly presented to Mitd a public-private partnership proposal for the creation of the National Strategic Pole.
According to a joint note , the initiative provides for the establishment of a NewCo with a 20% stake held by Cdp, 25% by Leonardo, of the 10% from Sogei and 45% from Tim.
Therefore 55% will be in the hands of public companies, directly or indirectly controlled by the Treasury; just as recently wished by the government through the mouth of Minister Colao .
Shortly afterwards, the Italian IT group AlmavivA and the cloud service provider Aruba also presented a joint proposal – presented in the public-private partnership (PPP) scheme – for the PSN.
WHO HAS WITHDRAWN
While another subject has withdrawn from the race.
This is the Italia Cloud Consortium (Seeweb, Netalia, Sourcesense, Infordata, Babyloncloud, Eht) which at the beginning of August had presented its expression of interest in the project .
On 2 October, the Italia Cloud Consortium announced that it will not present any proposal for a Public Private Partnership not recognizing itself in the model indicated.
THE ROUTE
"The next step is the evaluation of public interest by the government, which will choose one of the proponents as promoter whose offer will be the basis of the public tender that should be announced by the end of 2021" explained Il Sole 24 Ore. .
WHO WILL MANAGE THE RACE
Finally, the Sole 24 Ore also revealed that "Surprisingly, the tender will not be managed by Consip, the spa of the Ministry of Economy that dealt with the previous procedures for the cloud of the Public Administration. The decree law on the implementation of the recovery and resilience entrusts the completion of the tender procedures to the company Difesa Servizi spa, controlled by the Ministry of Defense. A choice presumably dictated by the national security aspects connected to the management of data in the cloud which will involve, as suppliers of the successful bidder, large non-EU operators such as the American cloud providers Google (which is also Tim's technological partner in the company Noovle spa) , Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon web services ".
The latter Amazon Web Services just hired by Fastweb, a member of the third consortium competing for the PSN.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/perche-fastweb-si-affida-ad-amazon-ed-engineering-per-fare-affari-con-la-pa/ on Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:02:06 +0000.