Five Ways to Reduce the Cost and Complexity of File Sharing

There are two ways a legacy technology solution gets retired. Gradually, and all of sudden. No one likes outdated file servers. Employees dislike their clunky, unfriendly user experiences compared to more modern, cloud-first tools.

For IT, file servers present nightmares for user administration, backup and archiving, and data lifecycle and multisite management. They also tend to host many security and privacy gaps. And when your workers are driven to unapproved — and insecure — consumer file services, your risk of data breaches and penalties from regulatory non-compliance essentially doubles.