7 Cloud Computing Solutions and Data

Center Trends You Should Know

Late in 2016, the Cisco Global Cloud Index Forecast released interesting cloud
computing solutions and data center trends for 2015 to 2020. The following
predictions may interest you:
Public cloud growth is expected to increase by 35% per year, with private
cloud computing increasing at 15% per year
Cloud data center traffic is expected to grow by 262% and exceed 14
zettabytes
By 2019, 55% of the consumer internet population (2 billion people) will
use personal cloud storage
By 2020, 92% of all data center traffic will be cloud workloads
If these predictions are accurate, data center demands and public and private
cloud computing solutions will experience increasing growth and changes in
infrastructure by 2020.
Heres a recap of Ciscos forecast with the top seven data center and cloud
networking trends:
1. High growth in global data center relevance and traffic. This includes
hyper-scale data centers and a 3x increase in data center IP traffic. Hyperscale data center operators will nearly double the number of data centers
by 2020 to meet high traffic demands. This will account for up to 47% of
installed data center servers, 83% of the public cloud server installed base,
and 86% of public cloud workloads.
2. Continued global data center virtualization. Migrating workloads from
traditional data centers to cloud data centers will be easier thanks to the
increase in virtualization within the cloud. This offers more efficient
workloads a necessary requirement to meet the growth demand of cloud
services.
3. IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS workloads will gain traction from 2015 to 2020. Cisco
forecasts IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) will grow at nearly 17% each

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year, PaaS (Platform as a Service) at 24% each year, and SaaS (Software as a
Service) at 30% each year through 2020.
By 2020, public cloud workloads will surpass traditional and private data
centers across all applications except for ERP, collaboration,
database/analytics/IoT, and other business compute applications.
Data center storage capacity will increase 5x between 2015 and 2020. By
2020, there will be 1.8 ZB with 88% of it being cloud based.
IoE (Internet of Everything) will impact data centers. IoE and cloud
services could generate nearly 600 ZB of data by 2020, up from 145 ZB in
2015. While not much of the data will be stored, it will be used. Data may
best be serviced with Edge or Fog computing.
Delivering improved security while improving customer experience is
necessary. Companies will continue to be concerned about storing data in
the cloud. When moving to the cloud from traditional data centers, its
necessary to focus on latency and network performance to deliver optimal
cloud benefits.

Ciscos top seven predictions pinpoint the need for continued improvement in
network capabilities to support advanced cloud applications. In addition, meeting
consumer and organizational expectations.
For complete details on all data center trends and the importance of cloud
computing solutions, download the full PDF:
Cisco Global Cloud Index Forecast for 2015-2020
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