The volume of data center traffic in 2019 will be equivalent to 144 trillion hours of streaming music.

How many zettabytes will the so-called data center traffic globally by the end of this decade?

Cisco has the answer. It seems they will be 10.4 Zettabytes in 2019, According to their calculations. This company has published a new Cisco Global Cloud Index, which also notes that 3.4 Zettabytes were reached last year.

Going from 3.4 Zettabytes to 10.4 will mean more than tripling the traffic of 2014. And it will also mean, as the authors of the report explain, working with the equivalent of 1.2 trillion hours of UHD video.

Or with 6.8 billion HD films, 24 billion hours of web conferences, or 144 billion hours of songs being streamed on streaming.

In addition to all those Zettabytes, the 83 % or up to 8.6 Zettabytes per year will correspond to cloud traffic global.

North America will be the region where the largest volume of traffic will originate in 2019. The public cloud will then grow faster. than the private sector. The most important service will be SaaS. And there will come a point when PCs will be displaced from their leadership as client devices with the greatest accumulation of data.