Question

A media production company maintains 80 TB of active project files on aging on-premises NAS hardware that is nearing end of life. The team needs low-latency access to frequently used files from their local network, but wants the authoritative copy of all data stored durably in cloud object storage to reduce the on-premises footprint and enable off-site protection. Which design best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Deploy a hybrid cloud storage gateway appliance on-premises that caches hot files locally while backing all data to cloud object storage as the authoritative store

Answer

Migrate all files to cloud block storage volumes and mount them over the internet to on-premises workstations

Answer

Replace the NAS with a larger on-premises NAS and schedule nightly backups to cloud archival storage

Answer

Move all files to a cloud file service and have editors access every file directly over the WAN with no local caching