Nearly 76% of companies prefer a hybrid model in the use of the cloud

Increasingly, companies are interested in building their own private clouds for the management and control of critical information. By 2018, 69% of the information will be hosted in closed clouds.

Everyone wants to go to the cloud. Users already use it without knowing and companies are building new business strategies that involve the adoption and implementation of this type of technology.

In five years, Cisco projects a strong growth of traffic in the cloud. In its fourth annual report, Cisco Global Cloud Index (2013 - 2018), it is indicated that data center traffic worldwide will triple from 2013 to 2018 with an annual growth rate of 23%, increasing from 3.1 zettabytes / year in the 2013 to 8.6 zettabytes / year in 2018 (one zettabyte is one million million gigabytes).

Global traffic in the cloud is growing faster than the total traffic of data centers. In 2013, the cloud represented 54% of the total traffic of the data center and, in five years, it will represent 76%.

There are three ways in which a company can rise to the technological wave. They can use cloud computing services such as software, infrastructure and platform.

Walter Sanchez, manager of Cloud Computing, indicates that the tendency is to use one of these types of services in hybrid adaptation models, that is, to 'build' an own cloud or use the public cloud.

"The implementation will be mixed, the critical applications that they need to control will be implemented in their own data centers and the applications or cloud services that need lower cost, speed, flexibility, will be put into public cloud", explains the Cisco executive.

Thus, about 76% of companies prefer this mixed model.

"This implementation of software as a service (is) in the industrial sector, manufacturing, education, and the sector that is consuming more infrastructure is finance, banking, where there is greater development of technology," said the specialist.

The use of cloud services grows in the Peruvian market at the same pace as the regional one.

"Latin America has a growth rate of 34% in cloud usage, like the Peruvian market."