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BRIGADATA, the green fortress of your data!

« BRIGADATA: Briançon Green Alpes Data« 
BRIGADATA is the project to set up a green DATA center and a super calculator, low energy consumption (hydroelectricity and solar) and passive cooling (hydraulics) in the Vauban forts (Le Fort des Tête, Le Fort du Randouillet and Le Fort Dauphin).
« In place to house possible wealthy tourists! let us host our data with complete peace of mind! « 
The greenest, tallest and most secure server in the world!

« I am sure that B: DATA will become a driving force in the Briançonnaise economy, generating jobs and new services. An opening for our young people to the digital and IT professions which represent 25% of French growth!
In addition, this part of Vauban’s work is called the three heads and locks access from Italy: three heads like the Cerbère!
A Cerberus in a green Fortress (Briga) to protect my data? that speaks to me, it is a seller, a guarantee for customers, in addition it is connected to a hydraulic power station right next to it, it is exceptional! « . JPA.

Faced with a digital transition with multiple societal effects for territories, it is necessary to strengthen the capacities of communities in terms of development and governance of urban data services, to make them instruments of general interest promoting ecological transition , energy and social. Essential tools for the implementation of citizenship 3.0.

the findings:

No local data center offer.
No digital resilience structure.

Very strong dependence of all on digital tools and urgent cybersecurity needs.
misunderstanding of the systems used.
Lack of training and initiatives.

unlectronics (15% equipped) and under equipment (15% not equipped) at the time of citizen 3.0.
Cyber ​​recycling without sector.

the axes:

Develop the local offer by creating a DATA center.

Harmonize digital practices through training.

the solutions:

Commitment n° 1: Equalize access to information by grouping social subscriptions.

Commitment n ° 2: Develop the city connected in THD (very high speed) and 10Gb / s connection.

Commitment n ° 3: Train the population to fight against unlectronics.

the partners:

BULL,…
CCI, CR,… and others
Investors. the Bank of Territories.
ADEME and others

« The terms » Data centers « and » Cloud « are now widely used in everyday vocabulary. They reflect strong trends: explosion of data, more and more marked desire to store it “in an industrial way” and to secure it, virtualization, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, etc.

Local authorities and local public actors are obviously concerned and are taking up the subject. They often consider the Data Center as a structuring asset for a territory, an element of attractiveness and competitiveness. The subject is vast, complex, and can take many forms: data hosting, outsourcing, value-added IT services in the cloud, etc. »

It is an opening to the world of large greenIT companies, capable of investing in the renovation of buildings and in the development of modern IT systems. Today, there is a market offer, supported by recognized players, and it is justified to initiate a local data center development project with, however, several possible intervention scenarios.

With the ambition of proposing to UNESCO, an exceptional site for the conservation of the world digital heritage:

“Cultural and educational resources from around the world are increasingly produced, distributed and consulted in digital form; to the detriment of the paper medium. Heritage on the original digital medium, be it an online newspaper, a web page or an online database, is therefore an integral part of the heritage of mankind. However, from a technical point of view, digital information is likely to be rapidly obsolete or deteriorate. « 

https://fr.unesco.org/themes/information-preservation/digital-heritage

In a comparable perspective and to use all the capacities of Vauban fortresses, the establishment of this DATA center promotes the establishment of a super calculator for the digital needs of scientific research (astronomy, biodiversity project, etc.).
But also the possibility for the French state to host the data of sensitive ministries (internal security, defense and external security currently hosted in the USA!) With a security level « TIER » 4 (4 layers).

In all cases, several questions must be asked before the project:

  • A local data center: what for?
  • What is the purpose of the project?     
  • What are the typical characteristics of a local data center project?     
  • What are the different possible strategic options (intervention scenarios) of the public actor (s)?     
  • What are the possible public-private collaboration schemes (legal-financial arrangements)?
  • With which partners?     
  • What are the main conditions of economic equilibrium for a project of this type?
  • What is the purpose of the project?     
  • What are the major economic and political challenges of the project (access to outsourced services, pooling of own equipment, local economic development action, etc.)?     
  • What is the market situation?     
  • What are the target vision of local decision-makers and their expectations?     
  • What are the main possible strategic options?     
  • What are the calendar constraints (migration of equipment for example)?
  • What are the standards of the data center offer?     
  • What are the concepts of technical and technological architecture (including devices to reduce energy consumption)?     
  • What are the trends ?     
  • Who are the market players?
  • What do they offer?     
  • What are the business models?     
  • What is the local offer?     
  • What are good market practices?     
  • What is the feedback from other public actors who have already developed a local data center or are asking the question?

example of Arras and its DATA center in a Vauban powder magazine:

https://www.decima.fr/datacenter/
  • What is the current consumption of IT resources (m2, number of servers, power, storage capacity, level of reliability / availability, volumes and frequency of processing, types of applications used, political storage capacity, PRA, etc.)?     
  • What are the specific needs to come in the coming years (especially major projects to come, IS developments, etc.)?     
  • How satisfied are the current solution and the desired changes?     
  • What are the cost of the current solution, the expected gains and the budgetary constraints (investment and operation)?
This phase must also lead to forming the project team and defining governance, project management methods and the target schedule. It is a question of federating all the stakeholders of the project around a common vision of the targeted objectives; the alignment of actors is a key factor in the success of the project. here are some possible examples:

Study of the potential integration of other public partners as initiating members of the project. It involves meeting other local public actors (e.g. local authorities, universities, hospitals, etc.) to gauge their level of appetite for joining the project.

The specific case of health establishments

Healthcare establishments and healthcare professionals are becoming more computerized and increasingly required to store their patients’ medical data. They can either host this data internally or have recourse to external providers. In addition to the Data Protection Act, the hosting of health data must comply with certain specific rules defined by the law of March 4, 2002 on the rights of patients and the quality of the health system. This law creates ministerial approval for accommodation providers, making it possible to guarantee patients the quality of the services offered by approved accommodation providers. Compared to the Data Protection Act, « ministerial approval constitutes an additional guarantee of another kind, in particular in areas where the competence of [the CNIL] cannot be exercised. This is the case, for example, in the ethical field, where it is advisable to exclude the hosts likely to present conflicts of interest and in the economic and financial field, where it is advisable to exclude from the market of companies fragile to the model uncertain economy, the interruption of which would have serious consequences for data retention. With regard to respect for patients’ rights and data security, the legislator has given the Accreditation Committee powers which overlap in part with those of the CNIL, which also controls the data controllers. « 

Who is concerned ?

As the First Activity Report of the Accreditation Committee for Hosters 2006-2011 specifies, « the definition of accommodation has been clarified by the debates around the LCEN14. The host has been defined as ensuring permanent or at least durable storage of data and whose functions go beyond just direct storage, that is to say that which excludes any processing. This form of deposit is defined by the storage of data which will be returned identically to the person who produced it.  » In practice: approval can be granted both to healthcare establishments hosting their data internally and to IT companies specializing in hosting (data centers or cloud computing), to health software publishers providing storage of the data supplied, or to manufacturers of monitoring devices. The provisions concerning the approval appear in article L1111-8 of the Code of public health. This article specifies that the hosting of health data can only take place with the consent of the data subject; it differs in this from the Data Protection Act which provides grounds for exceptions allowing to dispense with consent.
The conditions to benefit from an approval appear in articles R1111-9 and following of the Code of public health. In order to obtain the status of approved host, the candidate must in particular: offer all the guarantees for the exercise of his activity, in particular by the use of qualified personnel and by the implementation of technical solutions, of an organization and adequate procedures; have a confidentiality and security policy to ensure the requirements of sustainability, secrecy and protection against unauthorized access; individualize in its organization the accommodation activity and the resources dedicated to it; designate a doctor responsible for ensuring patients’ right of access to their data. The candidate must on the one hand carry out the procedures planned for the treatment he wants to implement with the CNIL, and on the other hand file an application for accreditation with the Accreditation Committee placed with the Minister of Health. . He must thus initiate two very distinct procedures, even if they have common points. Indeed, the CNIL also decides on the accreditation application file, which is systematically transmitted to it by the accreditation committee. The approval given to a candidate is not general. It is limited to the service which was the subject of the file, and does not relate to all of the services offered by the candidate to his clients. An organization wishing to obtain approval for several separate services must therefore submit several files.

A data center is an infrastructure with very high availability of IT resources