Just as local storage sufficed for your business when it was small, the trajectory of such massive growth is common and along comes scalability problems with traditional solutions. To this end, knowing the tell-tale signs you are outgrowing your current storage environment and preparing to address new ones can allow you to move into cloud-based storage long before issues start impeding productivity and smooth operations.
- Constant “Storage Full” Warnings
Local storage has reached a point where employees are habitually deleting files to make room or IT is just bolting on additional hard drives. This reactive approach results in a waste of time and money, with ad-hoc tools only adding to your data management nightmare. Cloud storage can scale instantly, with no need to order and install new hardware. For a Wasabi Partner, visit www.primesys.co.uk/partnerships/wasabi
- Remote Access Struggles
Local storage is not helping, when employees have to drag and drop documents back from home or client sites, which impedes productivity. Office servers are slow, unreliable; VPN access is constraining and not always available but cloud storage offers rapid access anywhere one has internet connectivity.
- Collaboration Bottlenecks
Frequent changes to the documents via multiple people emailing versions, or waiting for colleagues to finish files indicates collaboration issues. Local storage enforces serial workflow, whereas cloud platforms enable collaborative editing live with autosaving and version history.
- IT Maintenance Overhead
If IT staff are spending valuable time managing storage hardware, dealing with system upgrades or troubleshooting connectivity issues then the potential savings of local storage can quickly cost more than that centralised capacity. Cloud storage does away with the majority of maintenance, and frees competent IT talent for other strategic business opportunities.
By knowing these early signs, your business will not be affected by the limitations of that storage growth.
