Enterprise Server

These days, much of IT is on the cloud. One reason is convenience. However, there are situations where private servers are better than clouds, like sensitive data storage for small businesses. Cloud apps are accessible everywhere, while the point of private servers is to restrict access to locally authenticated users. It may sound trivial, but the current affair is that private servers lag behind clouds in usability.

Take drive for example. Cloud drives allow users to sync data while keeping local storage size in check. There is no latency working with a local copy. On private servers, users connect to storage services resembling external disks. There is no sync. The latency of working directly with online copies is often unacceptable. Users are forced to first copy the content from servers, then work locally, and finally upload the result back to servers. The workflow is outdated compared with clouds.

It seems that private servers can benefit from offering functionalities found in cloud apps to better address IT issues.