Cisco Global Cloud Index: Cloud to Dominate Data Center Traffic
October 16, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Cloud traffic will soon be dominating data centers, according to new research from Cisco Systems (CSCO). The networking giant’s Cisco Global Cloud Index (2012 – 2017) forecasts that cloud traffic will be the fastest-growing part of overall data center traffic over the next five years, with a 35 percent combined annual growth rate (CAGR).
Considering how quickly consumers and businesses are shifting to the cloud, even in small ways, high cloud traffic growth within the data center probably comes as little surprise. But here’s what this really means in terms of bandwidth being consumed. In 2012, cloud represented 1.2 zettabytes (ZB) of traffic. By 2017, it’s going to consume 5.3 ZB of data center traffic every year. Total data center traffic in 2017 will reach 7.7 ZB…
For those of us who haven’t even wrapped our brains around petabytes, let alone exabytes or zettabytes, Cisco offered some perspective. For instance, 1 ZB (1 billion terabytes) would be equal to:…
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