Cisco estimates Cloud Computing Traffic to grow 12-fold by 2015
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE On the issue of Cisco Global Cloud Index (2010 - 2015), The Company has estimated that global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, a 66 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The Cisco Global Cloud Index is generated from a modeling and analysis of various primary and secondary sources, including more than 30 terabytes of data generated each month over the past year from a variety of data centers around the globe, measurements of more than 45 million broadband-speed tests and third-party market forecasts. The Cisco Global Cloud Index also includes a "workload transition"forecast on the workload shift from traditional data centers to the cloud as well as a "Cloud Readiness" analysis of major geographic regions regarding their networks' abilities to support various types of business and consumer cloud-computing services. Suraj Shetty, VP, P...