Nearly All Data Center Traffic Will Be in the Cloud by 2020
November 15, 2016
Grazed from PointAndBeyond. Author: Kelley Katsanos.
A recent Cisco white paper projects cloud data center traffic will exceed 14 zettabytes (ZB) in 2020 — a 262-percent increase from 2015, according to a report in Data Center Knowledge. Also by 2020, 92 percent of all workloads will be in the cloud, and total global traffic will reach 15.3 ZB annually.
Data Center Traffic Projections by Cisco
The Cisco Global Cloud Index white paper shows that the number of Hyperscale data centers will grow from 259 at the end of 2015 to 485 by 2020. Moreover, most traffic through data centers will move from private to public clouds this year, and, according to Data Center Knowledge, “public cloud will continue to grow by 35 percent CAGR throughout the forecast period (compared to 15 percent for private), boosted by demand for cost efficiency and agility, along with strengthening public cloud security.”…
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