1. Two-Thirds of the World's Data Centers Going to Cloud: Cisco

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    Two-Thirds of the World's Data Centers Going to Cloud: Cisco

    That’s the prediction of Cisco’s second annual Global Cloud Index, which forecasts global data center traffic to grow fourfold between 2011 and 2016, reaching a total  of 6.6 zettabytes annually. The company also predicts global cloud traffic, the fastest-growing component of data center traffic, to grow sixfold – a 44% combined annual growth rate (CAGR) – from 683 exabytes of annual traffic in 2011 to 4.3 zettabytes by 2016. That means that two-thirds of all data center traffic will be cloud-based, the report states.

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