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by sbuk 2358 days ago
I looked into this about 3 years ago. Architectural firms are in a unique position - they generally have SMB requirements for the majority of their needs, except data storage. I had ~24Tb of data, ~18Tb of which were Revit/AutoCAD files. Cloud solutions were just horrifically expensive or just couldn’t handle the volume of data. De-duplication is a must, as is regular scavenging of app generated backup files.

That said, StorSimple and Azure looks like it’s matured enough to look at now. The main potentially prohibitive factor being cost. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storsimple/

Edit; this has got me thinking about how awful model syncing it Revit is! A big part of the problem for me was that the only solution for syncing was local data storage. Remote working with Revit was a nightmare.