This document discusses Cisco's Global Cloud Index forecast for 2013-2018. Some key points:
- Data center traffic is forecast to nearly triple over this period, growing at a 23% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) as cloud adoption increases. Cloud workloads are expected to surpass traditional workloads by 2018.
- The Asia Pacific region will have the highest traffic volume by 2018, while the Middle East and Africa will see the fastest traffic growth rate at 40% CAGR.
- Within data centers, most traffic (around 75%) will remain internal, while about 17% will go to users and 8.5% between data centers by 2018.
- Software as a service (