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From practical experience before we moved everything to "the cloud" and emptied the office server rack: These small businesses have a Windows server in a closet
by t0mas88 6y ago
From practical experience before we moved everything to "the cloud" and emptied the office server rack: These small businesses have a Windows server in a closet somewhere with huge amounts of files on it, typically a users complete documents folder etc.
When the user is in the office, they have a 1gbit LAN connection to that server and everything is great. Now 20 people work remote and all those files are behind a shared 20mbit uplink from the office to the internet.
So the problem isn't only people watching YouTube or the fact that they VPN through the office to get online, it's also that all the files are still in the office.
- lordnacho 6y agoI've been in those kinds of offices too, before the great cloud switchover. What kind of usage would result in high upload volumes? How big is your average Excel, Word or Powerpoint? In my experience, it's not enough to touch the sides. The only time there was ever a problem was when we bought a huge dataset to run quant strategies on, but that's not your usual office workload?
- dijit 6y agonot to be a party pooper, but I've seen excel files in the multiple gigabytes thrown around. Excel is actually one of the better tools ironically; I've seen powerpoint that make me genuinely sad for the state of computing.
- t0mas88 6y agoExcel can be huge (think: all orders from a long time frame) but PowerPoint is also famous with lots of pictures or embedded video.