What the minister of innovation and digital transition, Colao, said during the press conference for the presentation of the national cloud strategy of the Public Administration

First official details on the government project for the Public Administration Cloud.

In the realization of the National Strategic Pole, which is the first "Mission" of the PNRR also aimed at the cloud of the PA, "let's see what comes as a proposal, but there is a certainty to keep control by the State, perhaps in a flexible form" . This was stated by the Minister of Innovation and Digital Transition Vittorio Colao during the press conference for the presentation of the national cloud strategy.

The minister then underlined the importance of having the ability to manage this entity, "but – he added – I do not want to lose the contribution of outsiders".

The award of the tender for the national strategic cloud pole must take place at the latest by the end of 2022.

The timing also provides that at the latest by the end of 2021 the tender notice for the construction of the pole will be published; then there will be the awarding of the tender by the end of next year.

The transfer process will start from the end of 2022 and must be completed, for at least 75% of administrations, by 2025, in fact.

In the migration phase, priority will be given to the Pacs that currently operate with their own data centers classified, according to the AgID census of the Pa's ICT assets, in Category B (with structural and / or organizational deficiencies or that do not guarantee the continuity of services).

"In the next few days we expect proposals for the national strategic pole", Colao specified.

Present at the press conference for the presentation of the Cloud Italy Strategy were Franco Gabrielli, undersecretary of state delegated for security, Roberto Baldoni general director of the National Cybersecurity Agency and Paolo de Rosa, chief technology officer of the Department for Digital Transformation.

The Cloud Italia project in the government slides

All the details.

AWARD OF THE TENDER FOR THE PSN BY 2022

The Cloud Italy Strategy will be divided into successive phases starting with the publication of the call for tenders for the creation of the national strategic hub.

As Colao has outlined, by the end of 2021 the call for tenders for the realization of the PSN will be published. “At the latest by the end of 2022, the award of the call for tenders will have to take place”.

RESOURCES

Colao then recalled that the total sum of the NRP for digitization is 6.7 billion and about 1.9 billion between Psn and aid for cloud migration.

CLOUD MIGRATION BY 2025

In the national cloud strategy presented today at a press conference, it is expected that the migration will have to be completed by 2025, through a uniform process for all administrations.

OBJECTIVE OF THE NATIONAL STRATEGIC POLE

As explained, the objective of the National Strategic Pole is to host the critical and strategic data and services of all central administrations (about 200), of the Local Health Authorities (ASL) and of the main local administrations (Regions, metropolitan cities, municipalities with more than 250 thousand inhabitants).

The administrations interested in the services of the PSN, also based on the results of the Census conducted by AgID in 2020, were divided into three groups.

"We will be in the area to help public administrations make the migration" assured Colao. “We did a well-coordinated job with Minister Brunetta”.

THE FEATURES OF THE PSN

As stated on the website of the ministry for technological innovation, "The Pole will have to: migrate the data and services of the administrations without alteration (ensuring at least the lift and shift mode) and enabling private cloud services (private cloud), hybrid (hybrid cloud) in Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) mode, also using scalable technologies (hyperscaler); comply with the European provisions on localization and data processing and guarantee suitable solutions to solve the legal problems posed by the extra-territorial application of the legislation of countries outside the European Union ".

COLAO'S CLARIFICATIONS ON THE "RACE"

The current choice to set up the National Strategic Pole "will not technically be a classic tender but an offer of partnership and we expect proposals from public and private entities" specified the Minister for Innovation and Digital Transition. "We expect a proposal to arrive and if we like it it will be evaluated by a series of subjects, then we can publish it anyway" and at that point there will be counter-proposals, explained Colao.

And he stresses that the choice criterion will not be "who is the shareholder" but "who has the skills to do so". And he specifies that the project “is not open to non-EU countries, such as China. There is a wall called Europe, with its rules ”. Because "Italians must be able to trust that their data in the Public Administration are safe".

THE OFFERS

In the meantime, the partnerships of the major Italian and international groups are emerging to participate in the PSN tender.

From the Ambrosetti forum came the statements of Luigi Gubitosi, Tim's head of the company who announced the next descent on the field in the PSN race: «We work with Cdp, Leonardo and Sogei, there is a consortium. Minister Colao will not be disappointed, the offer will be there, ”he said.

Tim has Google as its technical partner, while Leonardo uses Microsoft, the reference operator of the Italian PA. Without forgetting two other consortiums such as Fincantieri-Amazon and Poligrafico-Fastweb.

At the beginning of August, however, the expression of interest of the newly formed Consorzio Italia Cloud arrived, following the one presented last July 15 by the tandem Almaviva, a group active in digital solutions, and Aruba, a cloud provider and data center company.

And precisely when asked about the hypothesis of a consortium between Tim, Cdp, Sogei and Leonardo for the national cloud pole, Minister Colao replied: "I read the newspapers, I read and heard what was declared regarding an offer from a consortium, I read it, let's see what will happen ". There was the phase of the "expression of interest, we replied, we clarified what was asked, at this point it is the moment in which something must be realized".

The Cloud Italia project in the government slides

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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-sara-a-controllo-pubblico-parola-del-ministro-colao/ on Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:42:48 +0000.