Cloud Pa, what the alliance between Almaviva and Aruba hides. The choices of the Mef and the Fincantieri case
Here are the news between facts, rumors and scenarios on the Public Administration Cloud. Almaviva's role
The Cloud operation of the Public Administration is warming up in the name of Italian style. Here are all the news between facts, rumors and scenarios-
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF ARUBA AND ALMAVIVA
Almaviva and Aruba presented a joint expression of interest to the Ministry of Innovation (Mitd) for the creation and management of the National Cloud National Strategic Hub.
WHAT IS THE NATIONAL STRATEGIC POLE
Provided by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, the National Strategic Pole (PSN) is presented as a dedicated cloud infrastructure, located on the national territory and at the forefront of performance and security, on which to migrate data and strategic services of the public administration, to support of the digital transformation process with a "cloud first" strategy.
HOW THE POLO WILL BE
The Hub will in fact be a new infrastructure that will be managed by an economic operator selected through the launch of a public-private partnership on the initiative of a proponent entity (the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, controlled by the Ministry of Economy) and therefore not through a competition, as many insiders thought given that until recently the government had not indicated the way of a public-private partnership.
WHAT ALMAVIVA AND ARUBA HAVE ANNOUNCED
Almaviva and Aruba – it is written in the press release in which the two companies announce that they have presented the expression of interest – intend to propose an innovative technological and service solution for the establishment of the National Strategic Pole at the service of Central Public Administrations, Local Health Authorities and main local administrations, oriented towards the centrality of citizens and businesses, in line with the AgID guidelines and the strategic objectives indicated in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
ITALIAN OWNERSHIP AND GUIDE
"The experience of the two companies – wholly owned and led by Italy – on infrastructural, cloud and transformation issues – write Almaviva and Aruba – points to the birth of a Cloud Factory that can act as an engine of innovation and digital revolution of the country system , guaranteeing at the same time the speed, quality and safety necessary for an effective, sustainable and structural change ”.
THE ROLE OF FOREIGN COLOSSUS
The underlining in the press release – "two companies wholly owned and led by Italian" – is emblematic of a scheme chosen by the Draghi government, inclined to favor a national system solution, without having the foreign giants of the sector in the forefront (Google, Aws and Microsoft) which will also be present in a French-type solution , such as the one foreshadowed by the same minister Vittorio Colao.
THE ROLE OF THE TREASURY AND OF CDP
The focus of the operation followed at the Ministry of Economy by the Director General of the Treasury, Alessandro Rivera, was entrusted to the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, now led by the CEO Dario Scannapieco , appointed by the Draghi executive in place of Fabrizio Palermo.
THE FINCANTIERI CASE
A direction of travel that effectively excludes another Italian group that was applying for the Cloud, namely Fincantieri, which for this purpose had entered into commercial agreements and partnerships with Aws and Almaviva . But if – as it seems certain – Cdp will be in the game, Fincantieri will not take the field, given that the group led by the CEO, Giuseppe Bono, is controlled by Cdp Industria (subsidiary of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti) with 71.32% . According to industry observers, today's announcement by Almaviva was born from this scenario as well, which saw the consortium with Fincantieri vanish.
THE CHOICES OF ARUBA AND ALMAVIVA
Aruba's choice to ally itself for the Public Administration Cloud with Almaviva was also significant, while in the previous weeks it had announced an agreement with Leonardo : the group chaired by Luciano Carta had then entered into a technological partnership with Microsoft.
THE ROLE OF LEONARDO
Does the choice of Aruba mean that the former Finmeccanica consortium for the Cloud is outdated? Yet the group headed by the CEO, Alessandro Profumo, according to the latest journalistic reconstructions, would be in symbiosis with Tim, with a view to a system operation according to the government's wishes.
THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN TIM AND GOOGLE
Basically, some insiders point out, the American giants of the sector that hold the technology useful for the Cloud would be kept in the second row. However, there are those who point out that the pivot group of the government scheme is at this point Tim and the group chaired by Salvatore Rossi and led by the CEO, Luigi Gubitosi, has made an iron alliance that with Google, not only for the cloud .
WHAT ARUBA DOES
Aruba – underlines Ansa – has experience in the development and management of proprietary Data Center infrastructures, with structures and systems that comply with the highest safety standards in the sector (Rating 4 ANSI / TIA 942-B) and located on national territory . Thanks to this, the expertise in the implementation of complex IT projects in the Cloud, Data Center and Trust Services area has also been consolidated.
WHAT ALMAVIVA DOES AND HOW IT MOVES
Almaviva – points out Corriere delle Comunicazioni – today manages many Cloud systems in many forms and has managed transformation processes from legacy infrastructures to modern architectures that have involved important mission critical systems. Overall, the company's Data Centers hosting these services are part of the National Critical Infrastructures.
And notoriously, the group founded by the Tripi family has always known how to act effectively with institutions and ministries.
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-almaviva-e-aruba/ on Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:08:22 +0000.