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Storage: Cisco Predicts Mass Migration of Data from Local PCs to Cloud and non-PC devices by 2019
The volume of cloud traffic is exploding. Cisco estimates that in 2015 total global cloud traffic will be on the order of 2.1 Zettabytes (ZB), and they predict that cloud traffic will grow to 8.6 zettabytes by 2019. Cloud traffic is a subset of all date center traffic; total data center traffic also includes data traffic moving between data centers.
Another dramatic shift predicted by Cisco is the migration of data being that is being stored on local PC devices to other devices, like smartphones, tablets and M2M devices. Currently, about 73 percent of data is stored on PCs, but by 2019 a majority of data will instead be stored on non-PC devices.
Factors driving cloud traffic include:
- Increasing use of mobile smartphones, tablets, and the personal cloud
- Rapid growth of cloud computing among businesses
- Increased virtualization in private clouds
- Growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections
Doug Webster, vice president of service provider marketing, said that “the fact that cloud is moving well beyond a regional trend to becoming a mainstream solution globally, with cloud traffic expected to grow more than 30% in every worldwide region over the next five years… Enterprise and government organizations are moving from test cloud environments to trusting clouds with their mission-critical workloads. At the same time, consumers continue to expect on-demand, anytime access to their content and services nearly everywhere. This creates a tremendous opportunity for cloud operators, which will play an increasingly relevant role in the communications industry ecosystem.”
