Africa, ME to come tops in cloud workload rate by 2018 – Cisco

The report, which is the fourth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index, also indicated that by 2018, majority of the world population estimated to be at 7.6 billion people according to the United Nations record will have residential internet access.It is also projected that more than half of those users will use personal cloud Storage from […]

The report, which is the fourth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index, also indicated that by 2018, majority of the world population estimated to be at 7.6 billion people according to the United Nations record will have residential internet access.
It is also projected that more than half of those users will use personal cloud Storage from 2013 – 2018.
Cisco forecasts continued strong growth of cloud traffic, cloud workloads and cloud storage with private cloud significantly outpacing public cloud.
Over the next five years, the study projects data center traffic to nearly triple, with cloud representing 76 percent of total data center traffic.
African enterprises are steadily embracing cloud computing as the next big step in the advancement of the internet.
Head of Architectures Emerging Markets, Den Sullivan said, “As mobility is becoming more and more prolific across the continent, people are demanding to have access to personal, business and entertainment content wherever they go and on any device.”
This has increased the demand and use of cloud-based technology across Africa. The Cloud is definitely becoming a reality in Africa as businesses gain confidence in both the security and reliability of the Cloud.”