Cloud Pa, here’s how Fastweb tries to seduce the government
One institutional partner and four US cloud providers. All the key points of the Aruba and Fastweb proposal for a tender for the national Cloud Pa
The Aruba-Fastweb duo intends to create the national Cloud with the American technologies of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle.
The tender for the National Strategic Pole (Psn), which provides for the construction of the cloud for the public administration, has been assigned at the moment to the grouping consisting of Aruba and Fastweb.
This was announced by the Ministry for Technological Innovation on 22 June .
This is a total change of front given that in the first part of the race the group made up of Sogei, Leonardo, Cdp Equity and Tim had won. Now the latter group – according to the rules – has 15 days to be able to 'match' the proposal and be awarded the tender.
Waiting for the more than likely counter-offer (there is time until July 7) Alberto Calcagno, CEO of Fastweb, reveals the main points of the proposal based on the use of four large data centers to manage critical data of the PA in a interview with Sole 24 Ore .
From the governance proposal to the presence of US cloud providers, this is how the Fastweb-Aruba tandem is a candidate to create the national cloud with a more economically advantageous offer than the consortium led by Tim. ( Here the in-depth analysis of Startmag on Fastweb and Aruba play the trick on Tim, Leonardo and Cdp on the national Cloud ).
All the details.
THE FASTWEB-ARUBA TANDEM RELIES ON AWS, MICROSOFT AZURE, GOOGLE CLOUD AND ORACLE
Like the consortium made up of Sogei, Leonardo, Cdp Equity and Tim, Fastweb-Aruba will also rely on American cloud providers.
The proposal of the Tim-Cdp-Leonardo-Sogei consortium for the PSN is based on agreements with some of the main Cloud Service Providers, going "to operate directly, with its own staff or its Members and at its own data centers (located in Italy) on Public Cloud technologies made available by CSPs.
The same technological choice also for the Fasweb-Aruba tandem.
“We have included four suppliers in the offer – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle – one more than the first offer of the other consortium. And our technical solution was evidently considered by the government to be faithful to its interest in preserving the security of our data and the independence of governance ”, the CEO of Fastweb Calcagno underlined to Sole 24 Ore .
THE MOTION OF THE GOVERNMENT
The clarifications regarding data security and the independence of governance are an essential prerogative for the realization of the PSN, one of the missions envisaged by the NRP.
In fact, it should be remembered that last January the Chamber approved the majority motion indicating the commitments to the Government in terms of security and transparency of the national cloud.
The document dedicated to "Efficient and secure digital infrastructures for the conservation and use of public administration data", on which the executive expressed a favorable opinion, calls, among other things, for initiatives to be taken "to ensure that the National Strategic Pole (Psn) is subject to public supervision, in particular under the control of the National Agency for Cybersecurity as regards the methods of adaptation and localization of strategic data and the management of keys and encryption tools for public administration data within the scope of the competences already provided for by the current legislation and that in any case the concessionaires of the same are, for the entire duration of the concession, in compliance with the requirements defined by the exercise of the 'Golden power' ".
ENSURING TRANSPARENCY ON THE AUTONOMY OF THE PSN
With the motion, the Presidency of the Council and the Ministry of Defense are urged to "send the competent parliamentary committees a detailed report for the completion of the procedures relating to the Hub, in order to ensure transparency regarding the technological autonomy of the PSN, with particular reference to the possible involvement, even indirect, of non-European operators ".
The indirect reference is – in fact – to Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (Aws), operators subject to US extraterritorial cloud regulations.
THE FEARS DETAILED BY CLOUD ACT USA
US giants Google and Microsoft, along with market leader Aws, dominate the realm of data storage around the world. However, they also fuel concerns in Europe about US surveillance risk in the wake of the adoption of the 2018 Us Cloud Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa).
The US Cloud Act allows US authorities, law enforcement and intelligence agencies to acquire IT data from cloud computing service operators (hence Google & co) regardless of where this data is located; so even if they are on servers outside the US.
Therefore, the involvement of these operators in the National Strategic Pole raises concerns about the confidentiality and security of the data of Italian citizens stored in the Pa cloud.
THE PROPOSED GOVERNANCE
But Fastweb with Aruba intends to ensure the government, in the event of the final award of the tender, the choice of an institutional partner to be included in the team. So as to ensure that the National Strategic Pole (Psn) is subject to public supervision, as desired by the diktat of the Chamber.
Regarding the public subject, “The ministry would choose, any indication would be fine for us”, the number one of Fastweb specifies to the Confindustria newspaper. “We undertake to renounce a minority share of the share capital in favor of the public company, the institution, the body that will be considered most suitable for sharing the control, supervision and strategic direction of the Hub. And, mind you, in our opinion the other consortium, in light of the rules of the public partnership established by the Procurement Code, should guarantee this same governance structure to the client ”added Fastweb CEO Alberto Calcagno.
FASTWEB MAKES THE ENTRANCE OF DEFESA SERVIZI SPA
In reality, the consortium led by Tim already has three partners controlled or participated by the Mef, underlines Il Sole 24 Ore .
“But maybe the Ministry of Innovation is interested in having companies that are even more specialized in the management of the project. The opposing consortium was formed independently from the client, to whom we give a tool of greater flexibility to choose who has more competence. Let's think of the same Difesa Servizi Spa specialized in security ”concluded the number one of Fastweb.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/cloud-pa-ecco-come-e-perche-fastweb-cerca-di-sedurre-il-governo/ on Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:33:54 +0000.