The cloud is at the center of the interest of companies and PA and represents one of the pillars of the Italian plan for the Government’s digital transition. However, only 37% of companies are fully satisfied with the use of the cloud. This is what emerges from a global research by Accenture, the American multinational that dedicates a considerable commitment to the cloud, with 100 thousand resources in the world, 5 thousand in Italy.
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Among the causes of the partial take-off of the new technology, Valerio Romano, Accenture’s Cloud first lead, identifies above all “the lack of specific skills in companies”. Other reasons that hinder the success of the cloud are: “complexity and specificity of the business, lack of confidence on the part of the leadership of companies and IT-related functions in migration, fears related to security and compliance, data sovereignty and infrastructure “.
“There is a great discontinuity with the past, the predisposition improved”
However, in the face of a still unsatisfactory scenario, according to the Accenture global observatory, «there is now – explains Romano to DigitEconomy.24, report by Sole 24 Ore Radiocor and Luiss Business Schooll – a great discontinuity with the past, it is changed the predisposition for the better. In Italy in particular, with the Recovery Plan which focuses on digitization and the cloud, we want to use the opportunity to make up for the gap. ”The pandemic, also in this field, has acted as an accelerator.
To date, only 30% of Italian SMEs actually use cloud services
The demand for cloud computing has soared, with a public cloud services market growing, according to Gartner, by 6.3% in 2020 for a total of 257.9 billion, compared to 242.7 billion in 2019. In Italy market growth was 21% on 2019, at 3.34 billion. The public & hybrid cloud earns the biggest share with a value of 2 billion and grows by 30 percent. A study by the Institute for Competitiveness underlines that a full adoption of cloud computing solutions by Italian companies could lead to an increase in turnover of up to 600 billion euros, of which more than half for the benefit of small and medium-sized enterprises. To date, however, only 30% of Italian SMEs actually use cloud services. The impact on the public sector could generate up to over one billion savings per year, thanks to lower energy costs and higher staff productivity.