{"id":9119,"date":"2013-10-11T00:10:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/oct\/11\/how-cloud-opportunities-set-aloft-by-ethernet\/"},"modified":"2013-10-11T00:10:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:10:01","slug":"how-cloud-opportunities-are-set-aloft-by-ethernet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-cloud-opportunities-are-set-aloft-by-ethernet\/","title":{"rendered":"How cloud opportunities are set aloft by Ethernet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ian Redpath, Principal Analyst, Network Infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 10th Ethernet World was held in Prague September 30 through October 2. The global enterprise Ethernet service market continues to grow robustly. For full-year 2013, Ovum projects a $34bn Ethernet service market worldwide, growing to $62bn by 2018 at a 13% CAGR. <\/p>\n<p>Ovum chaired the cloud services and data center day at the conference. The industry discussion on cloud services continues to mature based on new business model constructs, a growing body of compelling use cases, more data center&ndash;optimized connectivity, and growing high-capacity mobility deployments. The industry has been openly discussing impediments to cloud adoption to date, enabling a productive discussion on potential solutions.<\/p>\n<h3>The promise and allure of clouds: new Ethernet traffic generated<\/h3>\n<p>Three years ago, <em>cloud <\/em>was an over-hyped marketing term. The industry still uses the term, but it now rests on a firmer, more down-to-earth foundation. Cloud colloquially means &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Redpath, Principal Analyst, Network Infrastructure<br \/>\nThe 10th Ethernet World was held in Prague September 30 through October 2. The global enterprise Ethernet service market continues to grow robustly. For full-year 2013, Ovum projects a $34bn Ethern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}