The document provides 10 facts about cloud storage to prepare attendees for the NetApp Insight conference in October and November. Some key facts include that 80% of companies see business benefits within 6 months of adopting cloud technologies, 90% of enterprises have implemented a cloud strategy, and global data center traffic is expected to triple from 2012 to 2017. The conferences will provide over 300 technical sessions on building data fabrics across flash, disk and cloud storage.

1. Cloud Storage Facts
​ October 12-15 | Las Vegas
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​ Ten Cloud Storage Facts to Prepare for NetApp Insight

2. This year we’ve planned over 300 technical
breakout sessions. You’ll learn how to build a
data fabric that connects your silos of
information, whether your data lives on flash,
disk, or cloud.
Here’s a list of ten cloud storage stats to
prep you for Insight 2015.
The Learning Starts Now

3. Source: Cloud Storage Trends for 2015. iisl.com
Cloud Technologies Quickly
Improve Your Business
80% of companies that adopt cloud
technologies see business results within
6 months of adoption.

4. Worldwide Cloud
Adoption is Exploding
Over 5% of the top 1,000 companies
worldwide use cloud services.
Source: BuddeComm Intelligence Report - The Cloud Computing Revolution. 2014. marketresearch.com

5. 90% of Enterprise businesses have
implemented a cloud strategy in their
business.
Source: BuddeComm Intelligence Report - Cloud Technology Trends and Statistics 2015. budde.com
Most Large Businesses
Have Embraced the Cloud

6. SMB’s need to build and execute effective
cloud strategy to improve efficiencies
and cost.
Source: BuddeComm Intelligence Report - Cloud Technology Trends and Statistics 2015. budde.com
Small Businesses Still Need
to Embrace the Cloud

7. China offers a significant opportunity for
future cloud growth with the market
expanding by around 30% a year.
Cloud Growth is Expanding
Quickly in China
Source: BuddeComm Intelligence Report - Cloud Technology Trends and Statistics 2015. budde.com

8. 74% of enterprise-level businesses
surveyed by NetApp said they have a
hybrid cloud strategy. BlackLine and
Amazon Web Services are among these
businesses.
Source: NetApp Benefits of Data Fabric. 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp
Well-Known Businesses
Have Applied a Hybrid
Cloud Strategy

9. 78% of cloud users surveyed said that it’s
critical or extremely important to manage
data across multiple clouds.
Source: NetApp Benefits of Data Fabric. 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp
NetApp Provides Multi-
Cloud Private Storage

10. 52% of Amazon Web Service users said
that they’d already moved some of their
AWS assets in-house, or to another
cloud provider.
Source: NetApp Benefits of Data Fabric. 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp
Businesses Are Moving
Away from AWS

11. Cisco forecasts that global data center traffic
will triple from 2.6 zettabytes in 2012 to 7.7
zettabytes annually in 2017, representing a 25
percent CAGR.
Source: Cisco projects data center-cloud traffic to triple by 2017. 2013. zdnet.com
Global Data Center
Traffic to Triple

12. 7.7 Zettabytes is Equivalent to
Source: Cisco projects data center-cloud traffic to triple by 2017. 2013. zdnet.com
about 1.5 yrs of continuous
music streaming
107 trillion hrs of
streaming music =
19 trillion hrs of
business Web
conferencing
about 14 hrs of daily web
conferencing=
8 trillion hrs of online
high-definition (HD)
video streaming
about 2.5 hrs of daily
streamed HD video=
…for the population in 2017

13. North America to Generate
the Most Cloud Traffic
By 2017, North America will generate the most
cloud traffic with 1.886 zettabytes annually.
Asia Pacific, with 1.876 zettabytes annually, will
narrow the gap, with Western Europe trailing
with 770 exabytes annually.
Source: Cisco projects data center-cloud traffic to triple by 2017. 2013. zdnet.com

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