In a context in which there was so much insistence on the need to combine innovation and concrete solutions, it is vital to chart a viable route towards the economic and productive transformation that Latin America needs.
When we think about what resources are necessary to build a new scenario that allows us flexibility and agility, cloud services appear as the catalyst for growth and innovation.
According to a 2019 report carried out by IDC Latin America for 2020, significant growth was expected in terms of the consumption of cloud services in the structured data storage area (64%), unstructured data - such as objects, videos and audios- (54%), backup and restore (45%) and shared files (49%).
El 2020 marcado por la pandemia comprobó la necesidad de fortalecer el camino hacia la nube, desde la precisión de los datos. En todas las industrias nos vimos movilizados a migrar a este tipo de infraestructuras para poder proveer una mejor prestación de servicios, un salto cuantitativo y cualitativo que tuvo lugar en pocas semanas. Uno de los ejemplos que mejor ilustra la situación es que el 50% de nuestros ingresos de operaciones en la Argentina provienen de servicios en la nube (impulsado por un 80% de nuevos clientes).
Far from being an isolated case, a regional trend can be seen that projects accelerated growth for the next five years.
Among the main findings of the IDC report, we can also see how in recent years a wide variety of organizations began to adopt hybrid environments, in which traditional hardware and cloud hosting services coexist. This modality continues to be a trend in Latin America, where public cloud (31%, YoY) and data center services (5.5%, YoY) will continue to gain ground by 2024.
Countries such as Chile, Argentina and Peru are leading the transformation process that guides investments to the development of cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS). In the case of our country, this trend stood at 30% in 2020 and projects an average growth of 41% by 2024. In comparison, Chile was above the average for the Latin American region with 36% in 2020, and an average compound growth of 41% by 2024. While Peru showed a 35% growth trend in 2020 with a projection of approximately 39% by 2024.
This confirms that the cloud is already a consolidated trend where the leading companies in these countries seek to leverage the advantages of the economy of scale, as well as the flexibility and dynamism that the cloud offers them to align their platforms to business strategies. Meanwhile, the pace of adoption continues to accelerate towards the end of 2021, to the point that nearly 75% of companies in Latin America will establish mechanisms to adopt cloud-based infrastructure and applications at twice the speed of before the pandemic.
We live in a pivotal age that illuminates many opportunities and paths for us, and that encourages us to innovate. However, we know that it is a hyper-digitization process that also demands agility and paradigm shifts that enable the adoption of these processes, always with people at the center.
En la región, cada vez más se pone en evidencia la brecha entre el desarrollo tecnológico y nuestra disponibilidad para adoptarlo. La innovación nace de las personas y, en ese sentido, la nube no sólo es un recurso clave y catalizador en esta aceleración de la digitalización, sino un recurso también para la nivelación de nuestras capacidades como seres humanos y nuestra expansión de posibilidades en Latinoamérica.
Source: https://www.ambito.com/negocios/pandemia/servicios-la-nube-una-tendencia-consolidada-las-empresas-lideres-n5160611
