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Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021

posted by janrinok on Thursday February 22 2018, @06:03PM   
from the lots-of-ones-and-noughts dept.

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.

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• Re:Distinction without a difference Re:Distinction without a difference (Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Friday February 23 2018, @01:06AM (1 child)

  by MostCynical (2589) on Friday February 23 2018, @01:06AM (#642128) Journal

  Don't forget, with a "traditional" data centre, you get to choose the location.
  For some sensitive data (health, national security, etc), *some* countries try to keep stuff "on shore"

  (Although, as most US citizens have had their data released anyway, there can't be much left to protect, these days)

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  "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

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• Re:Distinction without a difference (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday February 23 2018, @01:15AM

  by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Friday February 23 2018, @01:15AM (#642132) Homepage Journal

  (Although, as most US citizens have had their personal data surreptitiously collected by those who seek to profit from selling such data, then much of that data has been exfiltrated and released anyway, there can't be much left to protect, these days)

  There. FTFY.

  --
  No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr

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