Nokia chooses Google for the cloud
The European Nokia chooses the US giant Google for the cloud. The list of European companies that choose the cloud of the Mountain View giant is getting longer. All the details
The European Nokia chooses the cloud made in Silicon Valley.
Nokia has signed a five-year agreement with Google to replace its IT infrastructure, including data centers, with Google's cloud offering. The Finnish network equipment maker seeks to cut costs, it said Wednesday.
Nokia did not disclose the financial details of the contract, but said it will take 18-24 months for the full migration.
Another blow for Big G which is increasing the number of contracts in Europe in the Cloud.
NOKIA'S AGREEMENT WITH GOOGLE
“The agreement is expected to drive significant operational efficiencies and cost savings over time. Thanks to the reduction of the real estate footprint, the energy consumption of the hardware and the purchase needs of hardware capacity ”, the company note reads.
This partnership is Nokia's way of accelerating digitization and gaining flexibility while controlling operating costs.
THE NOKIA 5G RACE
As Bloomberg recalls, Nokia is now focused on building next-generation 5G wireless service network equipment . New CEO Pekka Lundmark is engaged in a three-way battle for the global 5G market with Sweden's Ericsson and China's Huawei.
COLPACCIO FOR BIG G
In recent times, the Mountain View giant has gone beyond its research and advertising activities to become one of the largest Internet infrastructure providers, building the Internet "pipes" in a role dominated by telecom operators in previous decades.
“We are making significant progress very quickly in the telecommunications sector,” said Rob Enslin, president of Google Cloud sales, referring to recent agreements, such as the one with Vodafone Group Plc. Google also recently won a multi-year deal to archive Renault's manufacturing data, marking the US giant's first major industrial cloud deal in France.
THE COMMENT OF THE FRENCH NEWSPAPER "LE FIGARO"
In the midst of the implementation of 5G, the choice of the equipment manufacturer risks causing controversy according to the French newspaper Le Figaro. In the current context, the consequences of this strategic collaboration go far beyond the framework of a simple Cloud and hosting service contract.
The cloud partnership between Nokia and Google comes as “European telecom operators are rolling out their 5G network. However, the nature of the information transferred to Google Cloud has not been specified. All this while the American government has a formidable weapon: the Cloud Act, which allows it to ask any American company to provide it with the information it has about its customers, American or not ”.
Who knows if Gaia-X, the European cloud project, had already been operational, the Finnish company would have made a different choice.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/nokia-sceglie-google-per-il-cloud/ on Thu, 15 Oct 2020 06:00:34 +0000.