What people say about their file infrastructure once the badge comes off
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in Soho on 20 October where infrastructure leaders compare notes on the file estate they inherited, off the record.
At a recent dinner discussion in Soho on October 20th, senior infrastructure professionals shared their honest experiences with file infrastructure. Joe Fay, editor-in-chief of The Register, led the conversation, with LucidLink VP Rupert Watson present to field questions. All attendees were peers running distributed teams on storage bought for their offices.
Under the Chatham House Rule, what was said could be shared, but those responsible remained anonymous. The evening shed light on topics typically left out of case studies: VPN access lingering after employees left, teams setting up their own sync services due to slow official routes, and security teams' reactions upon discovery.
The evening began with governance and security, addressing the challenge of controlling unstructured data spread across offices and home connections, and the adequacy of the current setup against emerging threats. The conversation then shifted to cost and performance, including the issue of duplicated storage as each team maintained its own copy. The evening concluded at 9pm at The Soho Hotel, with limited seating available by invitation.
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