Cloud Traffic to Surge Courtesy of IoT, Says Cisco

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Public cloud workloads will also post a 44 percent compound annual growth rate from 2014 to 2019 as private cloud grows at a 16 percent clip. 

Global cloud traffic is expected to hit 8.6 zettabytes by the end of 2019, up from 2.1 ZB in 2014; data created by the Internet of things will hit 507.5 ZB by 2019; and public cloud workloads will grow at a 44 percent compound annual growth rate, according to Cisco’s Cloud Index. The Cloud Index is designed to be a planning document to study Internet Protocol network traffic. 

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