An Anonymous Coward provides the following news from this Cisco white paper:
● Hyperscale data centers will grow from 338 in number at the end of 2016 to 628 by 2021. They will represent 53 percent of all installed data center servers by 2021.
● Traffic within hyperscale data centers will quadruple by 2021. Hyperscale data centers already account for 39 percent of total traffic within all data centers and will account for 55 percent by 2021.
● Annual global data center IP traffic will reach 20.6 Zettabytes (ZB) (1.7 ZB per month) by the end of 2021, up from 6.8 ZB per year (568 exabytes [EB] per month) in 2016.
● Global data center IP traffic will grow 3-fold over the next 5 years. Overall, data center IP traffic will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 25 percent from 2016 to 2021.
● By 2021, 94 percent of workloads and compute instances will be processed by cloud data centers; 6 percent will be processed by traditional data centers.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Sulla on Thursday February 22 2018, @06:52PM (1 child)
We just had our budget system down for four days because there was an issue connecting to our cloud system. SUCH EFFICIENCY! It was on our providers side as well. There are some savings to having things off site but small problems seem to balloon much more than they otherwise would if we could have fixed it in house.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 22 2018, @07:26PM
Cloudy with a chance of IoT.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.