When I spoke to colleagues at bigger engineering firms about how they supported remote offices, I didn't like what I was told. These were major companies, and they were relying on one-way updates to or from remote sites between 2 am and 4 am. I knew that we could never work that way. We have more than 160 thousand files requiring approximately 60 GB of disc space, with many users creating files or accessing, modifying and/or referencing the existing set of files across three sites.

Eddie Greene