(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) The Middle East and Africa will post the world's highest cloud traffic growth rate growing more than eight-fold from 2013-18 according to the fourth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2013¨C18) issued recently.
Globally 'cloud ready' continues to grow from 79 in 2013 to 109 in 2014 that met the single advanced application criteria for fixed network. Qatar and Oman rank in the top ten countries in the world for leading mobile network performance.
Worldwide Cisco forecasts continued strong growth of cloud traffic cloud workloads and cloud storage - with private cloud significantly larger than public cloud.
Global data centre traffic will nearly triple with cloud representing 76 per cent of total data centre traffic.
By 2018 half of the world's population will have residential Internet access and more than half of those users' (53 per cent) content will be supported by personal cloud storage services.
Boosted by the Middle East and Africa (MEA) having the world's highest mobile devices per user at more than seven per user the region's cloud traffic will grow from 31 exabytes in 2013 to 262 exabytes in 2018 at a CAGR of 54 per cent.
MEA will also rank second in the world after Asia Pacific region in growth rates of total data centre workloads (24 per cent CAGR) cloud data centre workloads (39 per cent CAGR) and traditional data centre workloads (five per cent CAGR) from 2013-18.
Iyad al Chammat general manager Cisco Oman said 'Connected daily lives and businesses are becoming a reality across the Middle East with services including virtual offices connected education and medicine on mobile devices all supported by cloud-based applications. Governments and organisations need to prepare now for an increasing level of cloud workload to transition from traditional data centres to virtualised servers.'
Key findings for MEA
Data Centre Traffic
Data centre will reach 366 exabytes per year (30 exabytes per month) by 2018 up from 68 exabytes per year (5.7 exabytes per month) in 2013.
Data centre traffic will grow 5.4-fold by 2018 at a CAGR of 40 per cent from 2013 to 2018.
Consumer data centre traffic will represent 62 per cent of the total data centre traffic by 2018 compared to 25 per cent in 2013.
Consumer cloud storage
Cloud data centre traffic will represent 72 per cent of total data centre traffic by 2018 compared to 45 per cent in 2013.
Cloud data centre traffic grew 85 per cent in 2013 up from 17 exabytes per year (1.4 exabytes per month) in 2012.
Consumers will represent 61 per cent of cloud data centre traffic by 2018 compared to 26 per cent in 2013.
Traditional traffic highlights
Traditional data centre traffic will represent 28 per cent of total data center traffic by 2018 compared to 55 per cent in 2013.
Traditional data centre traffic will reach 103 exabytes per year (8.6 exabytes per month) by 2018 up from 37 exabytes per year (3.1 exabytes per month) in 2013.
Consumer will represent 66 per cent of traditional data centre traffic by 2018 compared to 24 per cent in 2013.
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