On Thursday, October 17, members of the CIO Club Campania and three Googlers who arrived directly from the Dublin office met in Palazzo Fondi, Naples, to talk about digital transformation, the Cloud, and area businesses.
The event, organized by power2Cloud in collaboration with the CIOs and IT managers of Campania welcomed as many as 52 Companies from Campania, excellences of the territory that stand out with their work in Italy as well as abroad.
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The CIO Club Campania: networking among the territory's excellence
Thursday's event, in fact, fits right into a rich schedule of events that the IOC Club Campania intends to propose to its members to address technical issues and issues of common interest.
In a historical period such as this one dominated by expertise, confronting the challenges faced every day by small, medium and large enterprises, regardless of their sector, is very important!
This need on the part of technicians in IT departments was taken up with foresight by Pasquale Testa who with energy and much enthusiasm decided to found the CIO Club Campania by gathering around him other colleagues to give life to new activities.
"Sharing knowledge," Pasquale confirms, "of methods, platforms and experiences is the main success of an ecosystem of professionals and companies in our area."
Before the summer, the CIO Club Campania had just three registered members; today it has as many as 92, a number that is destined to grow. The growing participation in proposed initiatives demonstrates what is a common need in the IT environment even here in southern Italy.
Google: culture of change must accompany technological transformation
."How many are afraid of change?" asked those in attendance provocatively Lucia Fabrizio and Andrea Borgia, Territory Manager G Suite SMB, who arrived from the Dublin office along with Simon Wallace, Sales Manager EMEA SMB.
.Happy to be in Naples, and thrilled by the welcome they received, the three Googlers wanted to tell how they are helping Companies grow, transforming themselves, because change is not only technological but cultural!
"Growth is possible in an environment where people can realize their full potential and productivity tools provide a competitive advantage. Google, through its solutions, looks to a faster, smarter and more collaborative community, not surprisingly 8 Cloud products have more than one billion users worldwide.
The reality of Businesses has changed, they mused, because the way we relate has changed, think for example of the fact that we now book our vacations almost exclusively from smartphones.
Today we have information available in different channels: the sales cycle is different, you have to be very clear about the risks, the ROI, that's why many are no longer looking for a supplier, but for a collaborator to follow and develop their activities!".
power2Cloud: how the business idea and way of working together with Google
has evolved.In the same vein, Giordano Iovine and Davide Bussetti, respectively the CEO and CTO of power2Cloud, also wanted to contribute by sharing instead of the classic demo the story of the change they have gone through with their companies in recent years.
The entrepreneurial evolution of the companies they have followed in the past and then transformed into the ones they are today practically demonstrates how the adoption of Google Apps for Business, known today as G Suite, has revolutionized the way they work over the years. With the way of working, the tools have also changed!
"In 2005 we founded our first company, a Software House oriented to the development of web-based solutions with which we faced - they recall - quite a few internal difficulties, which our Customers also suffered from: interruption of services, onerous management of backups and high maintenance costs, just to name a few, were the order of the day!
From in-house servers we moved in 2010 to adopting Google Apps for Business, known today as G Suite, for e-mail. This allowed us to solve all the weaknesses addressed previously, using so many applications included, think Drive, Google Calendar, Hangout Meet and more.
Since then it has been a crescendo! In addition to becoming Google Cloud Partners with power2Cloud born in 2015, our Companies have moved to IAAS mode use of GCP services and DevOps/CD methodologies, aiming more and more at microservices that represent the future for any Company that intends to scale and be more competitive for its Customers as well." You can read more here.
Play & Learn with power2Cloud
.In full compliance with the style of Google events, power2Cloud also wanted to come up with an agenda of work that was a bit out of the box.
Since playing is learning, CIO Club Campania members were involved in a series of activities to learn about Google Cloud solutions and better interact with IT colleagues.
Thanks to a Google Module, many tried to fill out the quiz related to G Suite features, lingering at length at parallel session desks to talk with experts. Facing off in the field were Googlers, the power2Cloud technical team, and customers already using Google Cloud services, such as Sole365 and LIU JO UOMO, represented by CIOs Pasquale Testa and Vincenzo Oreste, respectively.
They were the ones who told firsthand how they are facing the challenges related to innovation and how they were accompanied in this transformation by the power2Cloud team.
In doing so, doubts and curiosities were addressed directly by CIO Club Campania members to the experts in attendance. Everyone then lingered in the charming courtyard of Palazzo Fondi for an aperitif.
The event ended late in the evening proving that comparing is a pleasure, not a job!