Cloud storage growth dominates projections for 2016 digital storage. According to Scality’s Jerome Lecat, “By the end of 2016, 80% of SMBs will host some or most of their business in the cloud. Because of this, the service providers that provide the cloud-services to such businesses will need new infrastructure to meet the increasing demand, and support its customers.” While public cloud storage is growing rapidly, the vast bulk of data still resides on private storage, which may be access through the Internet (the cloud) or in an internal network. Public hyperscale cloud storage is dominated by object storage, which is capable of keeping vast quantities of information available to users while private storage is still largely file based. In 2016 we expect continued growth in object storage in private as well as public cloud storage. At the same time file access is more appropriate for many applications…