Latin America. Currently, 14.5% of Latino companies with more than 100 employees implement Cloud Computing, a storage technology that, although not consolidated in the region, has good growth prospects and 50% of these companies have opted for virtualization.
According to Ricardo Villate, Vice President of Research and Consulting for Latin America at IDC LA, in the coming years we will see a significant growth of this segment since "in a survey of companies in the region, an important adhesion has been noted. In January 2010 about 3.5% of Latin American companies used cloud storage and a year later, in 2011, this figure rose to 14.5% and although it is still very low, in the next five years it will reach 69%".
Among the South American countries, Brazil is the one that is betting the most on this architecture with 25%, followed in an intermediate step and with very similar levels, by Chile, Argentina and Colombia; while Peru and Mexico still remain at low percentages due to the great doubts that remain in the industry.
According to the same survey, 65% of companies say that their main concern for not adopting cloud is the lack of security: how much the information will be protected from hackers; data sovereignty; what do I do if the data is not in this country but in one with different regulation or if there is an earthquake, who is responsible for the losses and the consequences, among others.
However, according to Vitalle, 2011 is the year to know this storage option, understand well what it is and how it is consumed. "We must bear in mind that the macro model is applied first, but it is not the same for all organizations, it will vary according to sectors such as finance, manufacturing, transport and government.
However, what cannot yet be stipulated is whether the trend is towards the public or private cloud. "In these last 6 months we have had real cases, both public and private cloud . But the critical mass is still small so it cannot be defined whether there is an election for one or the other," the official added.
