OCP Deployment in a Public Administration Data Center: The Emilia-Romagna Region Use Case

In 2012, the Emilia-Romagna Region started realizing three regional data centers, to provide services to local Public Administrations (PAs), with an aim of reuse and efficiency, to be reached by reducing waste and costs. The data centers are connected to each other in ultra-wide bandwidth technology, thanks to the optical fiber Lepida Network owned by the Region and local public entities, already serving the Public Administrations of the territory. One of the strategic goals pursued by the Region through the data center is to provide IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) opensource services to the PAs; for this reason the experimentation for the installation and deployment of the Open City Platform (OCP) was started.