Italy to award tender for national cloud hub by end-2022

ROME: Italy plans to award a tender for the creation of a national strategic hub that will implement a country-wide cloud project by the end of 2022 at the latest, Innovation Minister Vittorio Colao said in presentation slides on Tuesday.

The cloud hub initiative is part of European Union efforts to make the 27-member bloc less dependent on large overseas tech companies for cloud services, but is also meant to increase security for public administration data storage.