+By 2020, 95% of all workloads in Middle East and Africa will be processed in the cloud, compared to 78% in 2015.
+Consumers will represent 68% of cloud data centre traffic by 2020 in Middle East and Africa, compared to 33% in 2015.
The recently released sixth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2015-2020)* reveals that global cloud traffic is expected to rise 3.7-fold, up from 3.9 zettabytes (ZB) per year in 2015 to 14.1 ZB per year by 2020. In Middle East and Africa, data centre traffic will reach 451 exabytes per year by 2020, up from 105 exabytes per year in 2015. This rapid growth of cloud traffic is attributed to increased migration to cloud architectures and their ability to scale quickly and efficiently support more workloads than traditional data centres.
With greater data centre virtualisation, cloud operators are also able to achieve greater operational efficiencies while flexibly delivering a growing variety of services to businesses and consumers with optimal performance. To better understand data center growth, new analysis on application workloads was developed for this year’s report. The following business and consumer projections were revealed:
Business workloads dominate data centre applications and are growing: Business workloads will grow by 2.4 fold from 2015 to 2020 but their overall share of data centre workloads will decrease from 79 to 72%.
Consumer workloads, while smaller in number, are growing faster: During the same time, consumer workloads will grow faster by 3.5 fold.
Video and social networking will lead the increase in consumer workloads. By 2020, video streaming workloads will account for 34% of total consumer workloads, compared to 29% in 2015. By 2020, social networking workloads will account for 24% of total consumer workloads, compared to 20% in a year before.
IoT/analytics/database workloads are growing the most in terms of share of business workloads with collaboration and compute workloads largely maintaining their share. Search workloads, on the other hand, will account for 15% of total consumer workloads, compared to 17% 12 months before.
“Over the past year, we’ve seen a variety of businesses and organisations develop plans for cloud migration or adoption. The move to the cloud is imminent as cloud computing has advanced from an emerging technology to an essential scalable and flexible networking solution,” said Mike Weston, VP, Middle East, Cisco. “With multiple trends influencing the growth of data center and cloud computing such as increasing digitisation, the widespread adoption of multiple devices and connections and the growth of mobility, the importance of cloud readiness cannot be overemphasised.
“Although our region has made significant strides to reach a capable level of supporting basic and intermediate cloud services, the focus now turns to continuing to improve network capabilities to support the advanced cloud applications that organizations and end users expect and rely upon.”
For the first time, Cisco also quantified and analysed the impact of hyperscale data centres. These data centres are expected to grow from 259 in 2015 to 485 by 2020. Hyperscale data centre traffic is projected to quintuple over the next five years. These infrastructures will account for 47% of total data centres installed servers and support 53% of all data centres traffic by 2020.
A key infrastructure trend is transforming hyperscale (and other) data centres. Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV) are helping to flatten data centres architectures and streamline traffic flows. Over the next five years, nearly 60% of global hyperscale data centres are expected to deploy SDN/NFV solutions. By 2020, 44% of traffic within data centres will be supported by SDN/NFV platforms (up from 23% in 2015) as operators strive for greater efficiencies.
Middle East and Africa Global Cloud Index data centre projections:
In the Middle East and Africa, data centre traffic will reach 451 exabytes per year by 2020, up from 105 exabytes per year in 2015. The 4.3-fold increase is at a CAGR of 34% from 2015 to 2020.
Sixty-five percent of data centre traffic will remain within the data centre by 2020, compared to 73.7% in 2015. Consumer data centre traffic will represent 74% of total data centre traffic by 2020, compared to 37% in 2015. In contrast, consumer workloads will account for 28% (134.3 million) of total data centre workloads globally, compared to 21% (38.6 million) in 2015.
Cloud data centre traffic highlights for the Middle East and Africa
- Cloud data centre traffic will represent 67% of total data centre traffic by 2020, compared to 66% in 2015.
- Data volumes will reach 304 exabytes per year by 2020, up from 69 exabytes per year in 2015.
- Growth is expected to be 4.4-fold by 2020, at a CAGR of 34% from 2015 to 2020.
- Traffic grew 63% in 2015, up from 43 exabytes per year in 2014.
- Consumer data traffic will represent 68% of cloud data centre traffic by 2020, compared to 33% in 2015.
- Traditional data centre traffic will represent 33% of total data centre traffic by 2020, compared to 34% in 2015.
- Data volumes will reach 147 exabytes per year by 2020, up from 36 exabytes per year in 2015.
- Projected growth is for a 4.1-fold increase by 2020, at a CAGR of 32% from 2015 to 2020.
- Traditional data centre traffice grew 38% in 2015, up from 26 exabytes per year in 2014.
- Consumer usage will represent 89% of traditional data centre traffic by 2020, compared to 46% in 2015.
Read the Cisco Global Cloud Index, Forecast and Methodology, 2015–2020 white paper.
Explore the Cisco Global Cloud Index Highlights Tool.
Explore the Cisco Cloud Readiness Tool.
Review the Cisco Global Cloud Index Supplement: Cloud Readiness Regional Details.
*The Cisco Global Cloud Index (2015-2020) was developed to estimate global data center and cloud-based traffic growth and trends. The report serves as a complementary resource to existing Internet Protocol (IP) network traffic studies such as the Cisco Visual Networking Index, providing new insights and visibility into emerging trends affecting data centre and cloud architectures. The forecast becomes increasingly important as the network and data centre become more intrinsically linked in offering cloud services.
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