Today that of Milan, soon that of Turin. Which add up to the 34 Cloud Region already present in the world, and which make theItaly is the first country in the EMEA area with two dedicated Region clouds. In short, if until recently the fact that the data of the companies were geographically delocalized in the “cloud” was considered normal, today we are witnessing an overbearing return of the “sovereignty of the data“. So it was defined by many of the speakers who attended the presentation of the two Cloud Regions in Milan, starting from Ceo di Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian al country manager Fabio Fregi. The fact of have the data “physically” closein fact, it is perceived by companies as the most important of the infrastructure advantages of the regions. Even more than the reduction of latency timescrucial but only for some applications, such as finance, security and sustainability.
The new infrastructure is created in collaboration with Telecom Italia (Tim), which deals with services to make the cloud more secure and offers the logistics infrastructure: “Tim is the largest tech player in Italy – said Fregi – and that is why we consider it a strategic partnership”. Tim’s presence also explains the choice of Milan as a region, while that of Turin has a lot to do with the involvement of Intesa Sanpaolo. But there are also technical reasons: “Proximity serves to minimize data loss in the event of a fail,” he explained Paolo SpreaficoDirector of Customer Engineering Italy, Google Cloud.
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Each region includes three data centers10-15 km away from each other, in three tectonically independent zones, so that everyone can do the failover to the other in case of problems.
Returning to the reasons why Google has decided to locate its cloud, there are mainly 5: the speed (according to Google, latency times are reduced by up to 80%), the computational capacity in terms of peak management, the data availability (the two sites allow each other’s disaster recovery), the safety (the data will remain “at home” on the proprietary network, without ever passing through the public internet, and being in Italy gives the security of adhering, in addition to international standards, to local rules on data security), and last but not leastthe sustainability.
In the face of a announced investment of $ 900 million over 5 yearsa study by the University of Turin tried to estimate the economic fallout of the project (based on the data provided by Google) and reached an employment impact of approx 65 thousand jobs of which 18-20 thousand structural, that is generated by the increase in productivity induced by the cloud infrastructure, and an economic driver of 3.3 billion in the two regions involved. Between these 600-800 million in the construction phase of the data center and approximately 700 million for the installation of the infrastructure, assuming 30% of purchases in the region.
Chapter training, skills and digital literacysore point of Italy and beyond: “we have collaborated with Tim to launch in 2021 Google Cloud Pro, a free training program on Google Cloud, open to the entire ecosystem of Italian developers. In addition, we have collaborated with Tim, Noovle and Intesa San Paolo to support the growth of Italian entrepreneurs, through initiatives such as the Opening Future project, dedicated to promoting digital skills for start-ups, students and small businesses “concludes Fregi.
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