{"id":9216,"date":"2013-10-17T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/oct\/17\/how-cloud-services-usage-is-rising-in-middle-east-and-africa\/"},"modified":"2013-10-17T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T12:45:00","slug":"how-cloud-services-usage-is-rising-in-the-middle-east-and-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-cloud-services-usage-is-rising-in-the-middle-east-and-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How cloud services usage is rising in the Middle East and Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the third annual Global Cloud Index, Cisco forecasts that global cloud traffic, the fastest growing component of data center traffic, is expected to grow 4.5-fold &#8212; that&#8217;s a 35 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) &#8212; from 1.2 zettabytes of annual traffic in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017.<\/p>\n<p> The Cisco Global Cloud Index (2012&ndash;2017) was developed to estimate data center and cloud-based Internet Protocol (IP) traffic growth and trends. The Index serves as a complementary resource to existing network traffic studies, providing new insights and visibility into emerging trends affecting data centers and cloud architectures.<\/p>\n<p> The forecast becomes increasingly important as the network and data center become more intrinsically linked in offering cloud services. Overall global data center traffic will grow threefold and reach a total of 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017.<\/p>\n<p> Approximately 17 percent of data center traffic will be fueled by end &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the third annual Global Cloud Index, Cisco forecasts that global cloud traffic, the fastest growing component of data center traffic, is expected to grow 4.5-fold &#8212; that&#8217;s a 35 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) &#8212; from 1.2 zettabytes of an&#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-9216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216","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=9216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}