Cloud will account for 95 percent of total data center traffic by 2021

Cloud services are increasingly dominating the internet and could account for 95 percent of data center traffic in three years time. This is among the findings of the latest Global Cloud Index report from networking company Cisco, which finds both consumer and business applications are contributing to the growth in demand. The study forecasts global cloud data center traffic to reach 19.5 zettabytes (ZB) per year by 2021, up from 6.0 ZB per year in 2016. A zettabyte is a billion terabytes, in case you were wondering. Globally, cloud data center traffic will represent 95 percent of total data center… [Continue Reading]