What will Tim do with the French Atos on the cloud (towards Gaia-X)
Tim has entered into a strategic cloud development partnership with France's Atos, which will provide innovative solutions to build a hybrid cloud platform. While the synergies between Tim and Google continue
A cloud partnership is underway between the Italian Tim and Atos, a French listed company specializing in digital transformation.
The two companies have signed a strategic agreement to develop a digital platform for Tim's cloud. The latter will provide innovative solutions for the secure and localized management of public and private data in Italy.
All the details.
TIM AND ATOS CLOUD PLATFORM
The platform – reports the note – will make it possible to provide companies and the Public Administration with speed, flexibility and immediate control of information.
Tim and Atos will jointly define and implement a hybrid cloud model, leveraging their specific skills respectively.
The two companies plan to commercialize the solution by the first half of 202, reads the release.
WITHIN THE GAIA-X PROJECT
“This partnership is a fundamental step towards establishing ourselves as the cloud market leader. The commercial launch of 5G in the country will bring very low latency services that, combined with Edge technology, will allow companies to manage a large number of data in real time, leading to the development of new applications ", said Carlo D'Asaro Biondo Executive. Vice President – Strategic partnership, Alliances and Tim Cloud Project (in the past D'Asaro was top manager of Google).
Furthermore, thanks to this agreement, the two companies will focus on the implementation of the Gaia-X initiative . That is the pan-European project which also includes a platform of reliable cloud service providers, in line with the objectives of the European Commission on data protection in all key sectors of the market.
THE NEXT STEPS FOR THE EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK
As written a month ago by Start , Tim also expressed interest in participating in the French-German initiative Gaia-X European cloud project launched last June . As Key4biz recalled, “our country, with 25 companies competing, ranks third in terms of number of participants after Germany and France: the Gaia-X Foundation was born with 127 initial members. Italy should also come to define, among the first countries, a Regional Hub by the first half of 2021, after France and Germany and more or less in parallel with Holland and on our territory the promoter / fulcrum is Confindustria, still looking for coordination with the government ”.
TIM'S CLOUD STRATEGY
"We are confident that our business model in the cloud, based on partnership with innovation leaders in this area, together with our data centers, will allow an acceleration of the country's economic system", underlined Carlo D'Asaro of Tim. . The reference is to the partnership with Google Cloud for the construction of state-of-the-art proprietary data centers (up to Tier IV level).
DATA CENTERS WITH GOOGLE
Based on the memorandum of understanding signed in November last year, Google has signed several collaborations with the Italian telco in recent months.
Last July, the US technology giant announced that it would have invested over $ 900 million in Italy in 5 years to open the two Google Cloud Regions announced in partnership with Tim.
As Tim's CEO Luigi Gubitosi explained , “to maintain and strengthen his leadership Tim has chosen Google as a partner to accelerate development and improve skills in terms of resources, technologies and skills. Google gives us access to its innovation and will allow us to bring innovative services and launch products in the Consumer segment as well. We have signed a long-term contract (renewable 5 years) that sets objectives and operational rules for this cooperation, including training and infrastructure and joint go-to-market ”.
Just last week, Tim's board of directors, meeting under the chairmanship of Salvatore Rossi, approved the creation of the Newco dedicated to the management of the group's Data Centers, in addition to financial results. The newco will be operational from the first quarter of 2021, after obtaining the necessary authorizations. The pro-forma 2020 turnover is expected to be around 500 million euros, with an expected growth of over 20% per year. Thanks to the partnership with Google Cloud, important customers were acquired in the first nine months of the year for the offer of joint services to businesses. The company reported in a statement.
WHAT THE FRENCH ATOS WILL DO
Returning to Tim's hybrid cloud platform, Atos will therefore provide innovative solutions.
"We are proud that Tim has chosen Atos, the number 1 player in Europe for IT security, for the development of digital platforms, from infrastructure to applications, able to guarantee the secure and localized management of data, for the Italian and European market. ”Said Jean-Philippe Poirault, EVP, Global Head of Telecom, Media and Technology at Atos. “This is an important partnership in line with the new Atos OneCloud initiative. Tim and his customers will benefit by accelerating the migration to the cloud and strengthening a secure data monetization platform. ”
ALREADY AT WORK IN THE LEONARDO SUPERCOMPUTER
It will be the French Atos, together with the American Nvidia, to build the world-class supercomputer powered by artificial intelligence. This is the Leonardo system, managed by the Italian multi-university consortium Cineca, which will be installed at the Tecnopolo in Bologna.
As Wired reported, “Atos, who will build Leonardo, has won two other contracts: Vega, the computer that he will build in Slovenia by March for 17.2 million, and Meluxina, the petascale machine in Luxembourg (30 million). All three will mount Ndivia's chips "
Furthermore, the aerospace and defense group Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica) has always chosen Atos as a technological partner for the development of the supercomputer that will be installed in Genoa, in one of the six Italian offices of the Leonardo Labs.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/che-cosa-fara-tim-con-la-francese-atos-sul-cloud-verso-gaia-x/ on Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:20:56 +0000.