Friday, March 19, 2021

Is it impossible to get a cloud based NAS?!

Hi all, I'm new to this so please excuse my ignorance.

We're a small office of less than 10 people. We currently have a NAS on-site that isn't backed up anywhere. Recently we're been plagued with brownouts which have caused the NAS to reset and become unresponsive, nearly losing all of the data.

There's 1TB of business info on there, with 4-5 users accessing word docs/excel etc daily.

All I'm after is a simple solution where I can replicate this in the cloud and allow people to connect from the office and at home.

I've spoken to Microsoft Azure, but it seems you can't just buy an off the shelf online storage solution. You need to explain your "data requirements" to them, then their sales team call you back in 3-5 days with a proposal and price?

I've looked at our 365 accounts which seem to have 1TB of space with them, but don't allow a collaborative space.

Apparently our NAS (Buffalo LS-WXL26D) is too old to have cloud storage connected to it, for an off-site backup.

Is there not a simple solution of moving our local backup to the cloud, that people can work on collaboratively?



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