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Data center, how many are needed really to the Italian?
The Agency for Digital Italy has started to rationalize the regional level. But it opens the debate, two national Ced in Rome and Milan will be sufficient to ensure greater efficiency and cost cutting?
Luke Beltramino, Managing Director TelecityGroup Italy
If the premise is positive, the declination is negative. The Italian state, according to the orientations of the ' Digital Agency Italy - Agid, wants to streamline and optimize the system in the data center of the central public administration (PAC) and the PA in general. Protagonists and perpetrators of this - needed - the revolution will be the regions. In essence, they will be created from scratch in each of the 20 different Ced Italian regions. This means the creation of 21 local agencies if we consider the two autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano.
As pointed out by the "Courier Communications" on June 9, in the regions of ICT professionals working fine. Nevertheless, the wealth of data centers of the PA is estimated to amount to 1,033 units in the Pac-only, to go up to 4000 considering all the PA (Agid position paper "Guidelines for the rationalization of the ICT infrastructure of the PA").
According Assinform, the annual expenditure on ICT in the public administration would amount to about five and a half billion Euros and 30% of this is due to the data center management (2011 data). Among the data center of the CAP and the local PA (Regions, Local Authorities, Health), would be used more than 20 thousand people. Most of the organizations and industry observers agree that the current assets in the data center is inherited from the past, policies and guidelines for energy efficiency are inadequate, human resources often poorly trained and motivated people.
Faced with this scenario, you need a radical change. What to do? The solution, in my opinion, is to centralize the data center, as it is indeed taking place in other advanced countries. As for Italy, I think the PA would require only two data centers, one in Rome and one in Milan, a city that already hosts two major national Internet nodes.
Centralization I wished he historical evidence. A data center is more efficient as it is larger and more modern in their security systems and energy efficiency. Building one / two / three or even more depending on the size Ced territorial in each region would simply lead to a proliferation of diseconomies of scale. Instead, the data center of the PA should be made in the most strategic points of convergence and connectivity of electrical infrastructure, features that are missing in the majority at the time of the Italian regions.
The government's plan defines, from a somewhat questionable, enhancement of DC national and regional portals of local autonomies and municipalities. All this will undoubtedly lead to the creation or use of obsolete structures. These will be positioned to come in areas with poor services and Internet bandwidth to be achieved and will require investments that can be used for this purpose. What sense does it build a data center in those areas where there is no connection to broadband? Failing that, it is important to remember, currently covers 12% of the entire Italian territory.
The data center model relies heavily on a centralized ICT scheme. In this system, the centralization of infrastructure in a single location can be supplemented by a second location of the backup conjunction with the development of the entire national territory of the broadband data transport services and Pac and PA in general: in this way all the country should enjoy the efficient distribution of services.
The centralization of data centers is even more motivated by the desire to apply the model to the cloud services of Public Administration. The European Union has placed at the center of its Digital Agenda for the spread of cloud computing. The EU is thus estimated to reach 2.5 million new jobs by 2020 and an increase in GDP of 160 billion Euros, or about 1% of European GDP. The model first Cloud has the advantage of being centralized in a main data center that is then subjected to operation of backup in mirror in a structure appropriately distant.
Cloud enables abroad already evolved forms of shared services . In many parts of the world have been set up projects by central governments as well as provide services to the decentralized bodies. And 'this is the case, for example, of solid experience in Australia and Singapore. Several government to promote foreign countries for some years now initiatives to cloud-based shared services , ie develop application components and portals where the government can procure services in decentralized mode self-service on-demand . And suffice it to mention the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative in the U.S. or the G-Cloud Marketplace in the United Kingdom.
The investment in data center should be done at the central level in locations well served by broadband, with the presence of multiple operators TLC, where there is plenty of power and space available for future growth. The savings in the proliferation of data centers could be used for investment in infrastructure bandwidth, and ultra-wide, to enable the population to have access to the services of the PA from all over the country. Avoiding construction of dozens of new data centers in the country and building only two, it would save more than five billion euro, which could be used just to the spread of broadband and ultra.
The centralization of data centers, finally, should be fully in the direction of what is making the government led by Matteo Renzi , based on principles of centralization, rationalization and simplification of processes, with a view to spending review. The regionalization of ownernship data center probably arises from a misconception: that of Federalism at all costs (and not coincidentally the Senate reform is based on a federalist logic). If it is true, overt and accepted by all the principle that services should be "close" and paid where the consignee is the final user, the data center industry, paradoxically, provides the opposite of that possibility: the services will be much closer to the citizens as the data will be managed and will transit in centralized data centers that is modern, efficient and safe.
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