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MEA to set world’s highest cloud traffic growth

MANAMA, November 18, 2014

The Middle East and Africa will post the world’s highest cloud traffic growth rate, growing more than eight-fold from 2013-2018, a report said.

Cloud workloads, cloud traffic, and cloud storage will also see worldwide growth, with private cloud significantly larger than public cloud, added the fourth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2013 – 2018).

Global data center traffic will nearly triple, with cloud representing 76 per cent of total data center traffic. By 2018, half of the world's population will have residential Internet access, and more than half of those users' (53 per cent) content will be supported by personal cloud storage services, the report said.

Boosted by the Middle East and Africa (MEA) having the world’s highest mobile devices per user, at more than seven per user, the region’s cloud traffic will grow from 31 exabytes in 2013 to 262 exabytes in 2018, at a CAGR of 54 per cent.

MEA will also rank second in the world to the Asia Pacific region in the growth rates of total data center workloads (24 per cent CAGR), cloud data center workloads (39 per cent CAGR), and traditional data center workloads (5 per cent CAGR) from 2013-18, according to Cisco.

Key highlights/findings for Middle East and Africa:

Data center traffic

•    Data center 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.

•    Data center traffic will grow 5.4-fold by 2018, at a CAGR of 40 per cent from 2013 to 2018.

•    Consumer data center traffic will represent 62 per cent of total data center traffic by 2018, compared to 25 per cent in 2013.

Consumer cloud storage

•    Cloud data center traffic will represent 72 per cent of total data center traffic by 2018, compared to 45 per cent in 2013.

•    Cloud data center traffic grew 85 per cent in 2013, up from 17 Exabytes per year (1.4 Exabytes per month) in 2012.

•    Consumer will represent 61 per cent of cloud data center traffic by 2018, compared to 26 per cent in 2013.

Traditional traffic highlights

•    Traditional data center traffic will represent 28 per cent of total data center traffic by 2018, compared to 55 per cent in 2013.

•    Traditional data center traffic will reach 103 Exabytes per year (8.6 Exabytes per month) by 2018, up from 37 Exabytes per year (3.1 Exabytes per month) in 2013.

•    Consumer will represent 66 per cent of traditional data center traffic by 2018, compared to 24 per cent in 2013.

Global cloud readiness

•    Globally, "cloud ready" continues continue to grow, from 79 in 2013 to 109 in 2014 that met the single advanced application criteria for fixed network. Qatar and Oman rank in the Top 10 countries in the world for leading mobile network performance.

Scott Manson, Data Center Middle East Lead, Cisco, said:“Connected daily lives and businesses are becoming a reality across the Middle East, with services including virtual offices, connected education and medicine on mobile devices all supported by cloud-based application.”

“Governments and organizations need to prepare now for an increasing level of cloud workload to transition from traditional data centers to virtualized servers,” he added. – TradeArabia News Service




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