What Intesa Sanpaolo, Tim and Google Cloud will do
All the details on Intesa Sanpaolo's agreement with Tim and Google for the migration of the banking group's information system to the cloud
Intesa Sanpaolo turns to the cloud through Tim and Google.
On Tuesday, Intesa Sanpaolo, Tim and Google, at the conclusion of the negotiations started with theMemorandum of Understanding signed on May 21 , signed the definitive agreements under which the institute will migrate a significant part of its information system on Google's cloud services.
As stated in the joint note, the agreement will benefit from the creation of two Google Cloud Regions in Turin and Milan, on which Intesa Sanpaolo will build its digital services.
The Google Cloud Regions will be built within Tim's Data Centers.
Meanwhile Intesa Sanpaolo and Tim are part of the 29 Italian companies and associations that have joined Gaia-X , the project for a European cloud infrastructure.
All the details.
THE OPENING OF A TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN TURIN
According to the agreements, Google will offer Intesa cloud services on Tim's Italian Data Centers.
The project, which has been subjected to scrutiny by the competent authorities as required by law, provides for the opening in Turin of an innovative technological infrastructure for the provision of Google Cloud services.
In addition, a center dedicated to artificial intelligence, training and professional support of start-ups will be created through initiatives to be defined jointly between Intesa Sanpaolo, Google and Tim.
GOOGLE'S TWO CLOUD REGIONS
The two mirror Google Cloud Regions in Italy, in Milan and Turin, will guarantee the “operational continuity of cloud services” for Intesa Sanpaolo.
"Both Cloud Regions will be built – explains the press release – according to the most recent environmental sustainability best practices and will be carbon neutral, in compliance with the guidelines of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, shared by Tim".
THE OBJECTIVES
"The services of Google Cloud in the Cloud Regions will allow" – writes the note – to families and Italian companies of all sizes to take advantage of the technological and economic advantages of cloud computing in a safe and sustainable way, making a decisive contribution to the acceleration of digitization of the country ".
THE AGREEMENT SIGNED IN MAY
In fact, last May Intesa Sanpaolo signed the Memorandum of Understanding both with Google and with Tim (Big G and the company led by Luigi Gubitosi started a partnership for the creation of public, private and hybrid cloud services to support Italian companies and the PA ).
THE AGREEMENT ACCORDING TO INTESA SAN PAOLO
"The opening of two Region Clouds, based on the most advanced Google solutions in Tim's Data Center, provides Intesa Sanpaolo with a significant competitive advantage both because it enables faster cloud adoption and because it positions us as a leader, also in the technological field , in Europe ”said Massimo Proverbio, Chief IT, Digital & Innovation Officer of Intesa Sanpaolo.
THE WORDS OF D'ASARO BIONDO (TIM)
"The agreements signed today with Intesa Sanpaolo and Google Cloud represent an important step forward within the larger project that Tim is carrying out with a view to equipping the country with the digital infrastructures suitable for growing our businesses" underlined Carlo D ' Asaro Biondo, Executive Vice President – Partnerships, Alliances and Tim Cloud Project (in the past D'Asaro was top manager of Google).
“The Cloud represents a strategic solution for all companies and institutions that will benefit from cutting-edge solutions capable of providing the highest standards of security and confidentiality. Thanks to our Data Centers and recent investments in cloud solutions and professional services, we are convinced that we can contribute significantly to the enabling of new services that will simplify the Public Administration and the way of doing business, while accelerating the spread of digital culture. at all levels ".
GOOGLE: "OUR CLOUD IS THE MOST SUITABLE RESULT"
“The Google Cloud proved to be the most suitable for guaranteeing the extreme reliability required of a systemic bank” commented Fabio Fregi, Head of Google Cloud Italy. ( Here the deepening of Start on the planetary crash of all Google services which took place on December 14 )
INTESA SANPAOLO AND TIM ON BOARD GAIA-X
In addition to the partnership with the technology giant of Mountain View, on November 19th Intesa Sanpaolo and Tim formally joined Gaia-X , the Franco-German project for a European cloud infrastructure.
If the majority of the 181 members who make up the initiative today are still German and then French, the Italian representation is third in terms of number of adhesions.
The initiative intends to build a set of standards and rules to promote data sharing between manufacturers.
As Mf / Milano Finanza pointed out, "the next step will be to create a national Gaia-X center to involve Italian entrepreneurs and politics in the project that already enjoys the support of the Minister of Innovation".
The purpose of Gaia-X is not to create a European cloud alternative to the American giants, but to allow companies to exchange data with each other regardless of the cloud used and, in case, to pass without technical or economic obstacles from a cloud service provider to other.
TOGETHER ALSO WITH GOOGLE
Precisely for this reason, foreign giants such as the Chinese Alibaba and Huawei and the Americans such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google are also involved in the Gaia-X project.
However, US big techs, "like any company that is not based in Europe, will not have access to the board of directors".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/cosa-faranno-intesa-sanpaolo-tim-e-google-cloud/ on Tue, 29 Dec 2020 11:53:38 +0000.