We’re a bit unsure what to do with one specific client.
The client currently has 5 workstations,where 4 of the workstations go to a shared folder on one of the workstations to access shared files. The client now wants to upgrade all their workstations to brand new machines. Total data over these 5 machines comes to about 50GB.
The client may be looking to double their number of employees/workstations over the coming months.
The client deals with sensitive data – so cloud backup would need to be encrypted (and I know of several that are).
I’m leaning more towards the centralised server option – mainly for login terminals on the workstations and sharing these files correctly. It is possible that employees *might* benefit from logging on a different terminal, but this was not discussed in our earlier meeting,
I know you can use RAID on a server, but I’m trying to get a definitive way forward for the client – server or cloud. It would be great if extra benefits could be told to me so I can lay this all out as a decision maker.