Wright-Pierce Engineering a Better Environment with Morro Data
Wright-Pierce
Wright-Pierce is an award-winning multi-discipline environmental engineering firm providing sustainable water, wastewater, and infrastructure engineering services. With more than 250 professionals and twelve offices throughout the US Northeast and Florida, Wright-Pierce has always been looking to identify and deploy the best solution for the continuous challenges of managing its distributed project teams and widespread data. After working with other data solution providers for many years, Wright-Pierce switched to Morro Data in 2019 to provide global file services for all its locations and project teams.
Industry
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
Regions
US Northeast
Deployed Solutions
Global File Services
Cloud File Server for AEC
Wright-Pierce decided many years ago that they needed global file services in order to bring their multiple offices into one virtual office for better collaboration between distributed design teams. The company became an early adopter of global file services and worked with a respected pioneer in that field. The decision paid off in achieving the goal of remote collaboration and sharing distributed resources. However, over the years they also experienced some challenges. The following are the summary of their experience with the early generation of global file services:
Previous Solution - Benefit
- Collaboration of remote teams with LAN speed access of all corporate files from various locations
Previous Solution - Challenges
- Cost & complexity of adding additional sites. The technology and architecture of their previous solution made it difficult to deploy new gateways as the company rapidly expanded.
- Single Point of Failure. Their previous global file services solution required a master gateway to control file syncing and file locking. Whenever this master gateway was offline or suffered an extended power outage it caused all other gateways to suspend connectivity. In fact, during an extended 4-day Northeast power outage the master filer needed to be relocated to a remote office for all other filers to resume connectivity and function properly.