Cisco Sees Cloud Apps Fueling ‘Zettabyte Era’

June 14, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from EntperpriseTech.  Author: George Leopold.

Brace yourself for the Zettabyte Era.  That forecast comes from networking equipment giant Cisco Systems, which has released its latest Visual Networking Index that foresees global Internet Protocol traffic growing three-fold through 2018 to a hard-to-get-your-brain-around 1.6 zettabytes, or more than one and a half trillion gigabytes, per year.  (The concept of zettabytes is so new that automated spell checkers still don’t recognize the word.)

Driving IP traffic over the next five years will be high-definition streaming video and the emerging network of intelligent devices popularly known as the Internet of Things. Traffic demand will be augmented by faster broadband speeds…


We talk about the traffic inside the datacenter a lot here at EnterpriseTech, and what is driving the compute, storage, and networking needs of hyperscale and enterprise datacenters, and this report shows where a lot of the traffic is coming from.  Much of the backbone supporting the expected torrent of IP traffic will be cloud applications and services, the Cisco index noted…

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