Cisco Report Predicts that 75% of Global Data Centers are Moving Towards Cloud
November 5, 2012
Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.
If you need more evidence of an effect of cloud computing on the high technology and the impressive growth of Internet traffic, the Global Cloud Index report prepared by Cisco, will put everything in its place.
According to the study, by 2016 total volume of traffic passing through data centers around the world will grow by 4 times and reach the level of 6.6 zettabytes. The compound annual growth rate of total traffic volume of the cloud – the fastest growing segment of the traffic data centers – will increased from 683 exabytes in 2011 to 4.3 zettabytes by 2016 (an increase of 44 percent)…
Cisco experts predict that two-thirds of all traffic data centers and server loads by 2016 will relate to cloud computing, and the average load on the cloud servers will be 4 times higher than conventional counterparts. Compound annual growth rate of cloud traffic generated by normal users, will grow faster than corporate cloud traffic – 46 percent for normal users against 37 percent for corporate users…
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