The world is in a profoundly delicate place when it comes to energy generation and consumption, as well as and the cost of these to the environmental bottom line.

Environmental degradation, global warming and ozone layer depletion have forced both governments and major private players to rethink how the world is powered — with renewable sources identified as the solution. Enter SNAM S.p.A., an Italian energy infrastructure company.

“SNAM is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure operators, and we basically beat the energy infrastructure center offering our slew of services,” said Roberto Calandrini (pictured), head of architecture for digital and  AI services at SNAM. “Our mission is to guide the evolution of the energy sector and lead the energy transition to a low-carbon future. And as you can see in our last investment plan, we declared our net-zero carbon objective to be reached by 2040.”

Calandrini spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the recent Red Hat Summit. They discussed SNAM and the current state of cloud-driven solutions for the global energy sector. (* Disclosure below.)

SNAM and Red Hat

Net-zero emission is a mantra that gets thrown around a lot lately. While admirable, it is proving difficult for even the most advanced countries to carry out — and SNAM wants to see that dream realized all over Europe and, indeed, the world.

“Limited data provide limited information about the internal states of our assets because they’re coming from the census. And we thought, what about the environment in which our assets are located? So, following up on that, we integrated data coming from remote-sensing technologies. So, think about drones and satellites, major relays,” Calandrini stated, explaining his company’s cloud-driven data scaling efforts over the years.

SNAM has worked with Red Hat Inc. since 2018 — when the company leaned heavily on several Red Hat solutions to set up a cloud readiness map and move its load into a more modern architectural stack.

“In 2019, we decided to accelerate the moving of our application workload. We started moving 10 to 20% of our workloads on OpenShift. And since then, most of our new software projects are now cloud native and developed on OpenShift,” Calandrini doncluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Red Hat Summit. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Red Hat Summit. Neither Red Hat Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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