Every piece of data in its place.
No NAS in the corridor.

Yes, and the route depends on what is inside it. People’s documents, Office files, PDFs, shared projects, belong on a collaboration platform with versioning, co-authoring and controlled sharing: the network path disappears and nobody misses it. Folders used by ERP systems, applications or machinery, which want a classic network path, go on SMB shares in the cloud with the same domain permissions as today. The two coexist, and the initial inventory is exactly what decides folder by folder.

With access tied to the person’s identity and the device’s health, not to the network: the ZTNA model we also use for the cloud firewall. Users open the share as they did before, the link is encrypted and authorised for that person and that device, and anyone not authorised cannot even see that the share exists. For organisations with many sites or many mobile users the same architecture extends to a full SASE service.

You pay for the space you use and for the service tier: hot for data used every day, cool for data read rarely, archive for data that only needs to be kept. Moving data to the right tier is the biggest cost lever, and we do it with automatic lifecycle rules. In every quote we include the comparison with the real cost of an on-site NAS or file server: hardware, disks, power, backup and the people who maintain it.

Wherever you decide, among four options with clear jurisdiction: public cloud in European regions, European cloud outside US jurisdiction, private cloud in Italy or on-premises. S3-compatible object storage and network shares are available on all of them; disks and the virtual SAN follow the virtual machines. The choice is written into the contract together with the exit strategy, as ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 and 27018 require.

No, and it is worth saying plainly. Versioning, snapshots and immutability protect against deletions, overwrites and ransomware, but they live inside the same service: if an administrator makes a mistake, if an account is compromised or if you change provider, you need an independent copy on another platform, with recovery tests. Cloud storage is where the data lives; backup is the copy that saves it when the storage is not enough. We design them together.

Immutable data, once written, cannot be modified or deleted for the period you decide, not even by an administrator with full privileges. It is needed in two cases: against ransomware, which encrypts or deletes everything it reaches, and for compliant retention of documents that must remain intact for years, electronic invoices, registers, communications. We enable it per container or per folder, with a duration defined by the obligation or the risk, and we document it for audits.

On the public cloud we use the native Microsoft Azure services: SharePoint and OneDrive for documents and collaboration, Azure Files for SMB shares, Azure Blob Storage for objects and archive, Managed Disks and Azure Elastic SAN for virtual machines and clusters, Azure File Sync to keep the on-site file server synchronised with the cloud. On the European cloud and the private cloud in Italy we offer S3-compatible object storage and network shares. We name them here and not in the rest of the page because the choice starts from your data, not from a brand.

Yes, in four ways. Full service: inventory, design, migration and ongoing management of capacity, costs, permissions and versions. Architecture only: we decide together which storage for which data and your IT implements. Consulting only: review of what you have, cost optimisation, retention requirements. Management only: we take over the cloud storage you already have and keep it in order. Data migration, when needed, is our migration service, with coexistence and an agreed cut-over.