Cloud traffic to quadruple by 2019, dominate data centres: Cisco

SAN JOSE, CA – Growing personal and public cloud storage, denser private cloud workloads, and the Internet of Everything are among the key drivers that will push global cloud traffic to more than quadruple in the next four years, according to new data from Cisco.The fifth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2014-2019) forecasts that global cloud traffic will spike from 2.1 to 8.6 zettabytes (ZB), outpacing the growth of total global data centre traffic, which is forecast to triple during the same time frame (from 3.4 to 10.4 ZB).The report also predicts that by 2019, 83% of all data centre traffic...