Hybrid Cloud, Digital Sovereignty and Security: a strategic approach with Italtel

Digital competitiveness and resilience for businesses and public administrations

In Italy, the cloud market is growing rapidly. According to the Cloud Transformation Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano, in 2024 it reached €6.8 billion, marking a 24% increase over the previous year. This growth is largely driven by Public & Hybrid Cloud, which alone accounts for €4.8 billion.

Italian enterprises have now fully embraced this transformation: 84% have migrated at least part of their critical data to the cloud. However, several challenges remain — 58% struggle to control spending, 54% report a lack of skills, and 43% cite security as their top concern.

How can these challenges be addressed? And how can they become strategic opportunities?

Hybrid Multi-Cloud as a competitive lever

Hybrid or multi-cloud is no longer just a technology choice — it is a strategic decision that combines flexibility, security, and regulatory compliance.
With this model, companies can balance agility and governance, deciding precisely where to store sensitive or mission-critical data and how to manage it.

The ability to distribute workloads across public and private infrastructures helps optimize costs and performance, while ensuring high operational resilience.

Moreover, hybrid multi-cloud solutions mitigate the risk of vendor lock-in, respond effectively to the exponential growth of data, and align with increasingly strict European regulations on privacy and digital sovereignty.
This is not merely a technological evolution — it’s a decisive competitive advantage that enables organizations to innovate without losing control, security, or long-term continuity.

Italtel: a modular and secure path to the Hybrid Multi-Cloud

Digital Sovereignty and Integrated Security

Digital sovereignty is a particularly pressing issue in Italy, where over 50% of data centers are concentrated in the northern regions, creating the risk of asymmetric digitalization.

To address this, Italtel offers a “gate-to-cloud” model, providing enterprises and public administrations access to advanced colocation infrastructures. This approach also enables AI use cases and reduces the need for costly on-premises infrastructure investments.

Cybersecurity is an integral part of this model.
Italtel’s international Security Operation Center (SOC) operates 24/7 under the Follow-the-Sun model, ensuring constant threat monitoring.
In addition to traditional security solutions (firewalls, IPS, sandboxing, access protection, etc.), Italtel integrates innovative technologies such as quantum-safe security, designed to safeguard data against future quantum computing threats.

Partnerships that enable Innovation

Italtel’s ecosystem of technology partners is another key differentiator.
Collaborations with data center vendors, major hyperscalers, and colocation and edge solution providers make it possible to design tailor-made solutions, making hybrid cloud more accessible, innovative, and secure.

A recent example is the partnership with Equinix, which accelerates the adoption of hybrid multi-cloud solutions in Italy, offering tangible benefits in performance and operational cost optimization. 👉 Learn more and read the press release.

Turning complexity into opportunity

The journey toward hybrid cloud is not without challenges, but it represents a unique opportunity to rethink processes, governance models, and security strategies.

With its long-standing expertise in complex networks and critical infrastructures, Italtel is ready to guide clients through this transformation, ensuring reliability, technological innovation, and advanced support.