In the fourth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2013 – 2018) Cisco has predicted strong growth of cloud traffic, cloud workloads and cloud storage with private cloud significantly outpacing public cloud in Africa and the Middle East by 2018. Over the next five years, the study projected that data centre traffic would nearly triple, with cloud representing 76 per cent of the total data centre traffic. Findings from the study indicated that by 2018,
half of the world’s population would have residential Internet access and more than half of those users’ (53 per cent) content would be supported by personal cloud storage services.
According to Cisco, the world’s projected population by 2018 will be 7.6 billion people, as initially stated by the United Nations.
The company said African enterprises were steadily embracing cloud computing as the next big step in the advancement of the Internet. “This trend is definitely being witnessed in Africa as more and more individuals and companies are embracing could-based solutions,” the company’s General Manager for English West Africa, Mr. Dare Ogunlade, noted.
Key highlights from the study for the region included, “From 2013 – 2018, Middle East and Africa are expected to have the second highest cloud workload growth rate. Asia Pacific (45 per cent CAGR); followed by Middle East and Africa (39 per cent CAGR); and Latin America (34 per cent CAGR).
“In the Middle East and Africa, data centre traffic will reach 366 exabytes per year (30 exabytes per month) by 2018, up from 68 exabytes per year (5.7 exabytes per month) in 2013, a CAGR of 40 per cent from 2013 to 2018.”
On Global Cloud Index highlights/findings, the study predicted that global data centre traffic would nearly triple from 2013 to 2018 with a combined annual growth rate of 23 per cent growing from 3.1 zettabytes/year in 2013 to 8.6 zettabytes/year in 2018.
It stated, “The 8.6 zettabytes of data center traffic predicted for 2018 is equivalent to streaming all of the movies (approximately 500,000) and television shows (three million) ever made in ultra-high definition 250,000 times.
“Global cloud traffic is growing faster than the overall global data centre traffic. In 2013, cloud accounted for 54 per cent of total data centre traffic and by 2018, cloud will account for 76 per cent of total data centre traffic.”
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