Who tugs Colao on the Public Administration Cloud
How and why the Consorzio Italia Cloud mumbles after the press conference by Minister Colao who presented the Cloud Italia Strategy
The Call for the National Strategic Cloud Pole will be awarded by 2022.
The migration of the Public Administration to the cloud must be completed by 2025, “through a uniform process for all administrations”. This is what is foreseen by the Cloud Italia Strategy illustrated on 7 September in the presence of the Minister for Innovation and Digital Transition Vittorio Colao.
The current choice to set up the National Strategic Pole (Psn) "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".
The rejected tender project in favor of the public-private partnership causes the Italia Cloud Consortium which includes 6 Italian companies (Seeweb, ETH, Netalia, Infordata, Sourcesense, Babyloncloud) to grumble – according to the indiscretions collected by Startmag government project.
“We have listened carefully to the statements of Minister Vittorio Colao and we feel we can say that Italian companies in the sector, which we represent, have all the necessary skills and have long adopted all the most advanced technologies in the world. There are no technological issues for which the country's companies are inadequate, both in terms of resources and skills ”said Michele Zunino, president of the Italia Cloud Consortium.
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THE POSITION OF THE ITALIA CLOUD CONSORTIUM AFTER THE WORDS OF COLAO
"That of the Cloud is the game of the heart for the relaunch of the Italian economy and must be oriented on the basis of economic needs, efficiency of services and security, to avoid that, through the Cloud, Italy loses sovereignty over the data of its own citizens. Our Consorzio Italia Cloud is ready to present its proposal, but we are waiting for Minister Colao to indicate the technical lines necessary to participate in the selection, lines that must be indicated by the National Agency for Cybersecurity, and that is why we have expressed in time to Minister Colao our expression of interest ”, added Zunino.
In fact, at the beginning of August, the newly formed Consorzio Italia Cloud presented its expression of interest in the PSN project which follows the one presented last July 15 by the Italian tandem Almaviva, a group active in digital solutions, and Aruba, a cloud provider company. and data center.
ABOUT THE RISKS OF CLOUD ACT
“The Italia Cloud Consortium looks with interest and appreciation at the government's orientation of wanting to involve all the subjects in the field. The solutions indicated so far do not yet seem to give any security regarding the risks deriving from the Cloud Act ”underlines the president of the Italia Cloud Consortium.
In fact, the "Cloud Act" has been in force in the United States since 2018. The latter may allow the American justice or intelligence services to access data hosted outside the United States in some cases.
And so far the major Italian companies have chosen to ally themselves with the US giants of the cloud market.
In May, the Tim-Google tandem was preparing to compete with Leonardo-Microsoft and Fincantieri-Amazon for the tender announced by Minister Colao for the management of the National Strategic Pole. However, now American companies "must remain one step behind but not excluded", Riccardo Luna pointed out in the Repubblica newspaper at the end of July.
WHAT IS EXPECTED FROM THE GOVERNMENT
Returning to the position of the Italia Cloud Consortium, according to President Zunino “The government will have to say how it intends to tackle the problem and whether or not to align itself with what Germany and France are deciding. Investments in the Cloud must be an important opportunity for the enhancement of Italian companies, universities that carry out research on these issues and must promote a new industrial policy in the direction of digitization of the country ".
Colao recalled that the resources allocated to the PNRR are approximately 1.9 billion between PSN and aid for cloud migration.
THE MEMBERS OF THE ITALIA CLOUD CONSORTIUM
As we said, all Italian companies are part of the Italia Cloud Consortium: Seeweb, cloud computing provider; Sourcesense, an innovative SME operating in the IT sector on the Italian and English markets and leader in cloud-native solutions based on “Open Source” technologies; Infordata, active in the ICT sector; Babylon Cloud, startup focused on cloud storage technology; the Consorzio Stabile in the sector of Ict Eht services and the national public cloud provider Netalia.
All six companies are engaged in the Cloud market, with a total of 1,900 human resources and approximately 300 million in turnover.
THE PROPOSAL
The Italia Cloud Consortium has proposed a PSN management and development model that enhances the skills and infrastructures of Italian public and private operators already present and operating in the area in order to support an effective digitization process in the public sector, in line with what envisaged by the NRP, able to protect citizens' freedoms through the management of data and aspects of security and privacy, digital sovereignty, interoperability, transparency and efficient use of resources without any technological dependence.
WHICH OTHER SUBJECTS ARE COMPETING FOR THE REALIZATION OF THE PSN?
But the expression of interest presented by the Italia Cloud Consortium and that by Almaviva with Aurba are not the only proposals that the ministry will have to evaluate.
"In pole position is the consortium formed by Tim, Leonardo, Cdp and Sogei, which would have US giants such as Google and Microsoft as technical partners", wrote La Stampa yesterday.
For the Corriere della Sera there are two consortiums: “Cassa depositi e prestiti with Tim, Sogei and Leonardo, and Almaviva together with Aruba”.
“It has now been declared by the companies concerned that there will be a Tim (with Google) -Cdp-Leonardo-Sogei proposal. On paper, it may not be the only one to arrive in the next few days, nor are aggregations excluded ”, added Il Sole 24 Ore .
The indiscretions of the newspaper Repubblica are therefore confirmed, which over the weekend wrote: "The other two consortiums, Fincantieri-Amazon and Poligrafico-Fastweb could be wrecked because it is rumored that the Mef is trying to discourage other public companies from competing with the squadron in which militant Cdp, Tim, Sogei and Leonardo ".
“So the Treasury has decided which companies directly or indirectly controlled by the State can apply for the Public Administration Cloud”, commented Gianluca Zappa on Start .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/chi-strattona-colao-sul-cloud-della-pubblica-amministrazione/ on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:59:48 +0000.