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Need a solution for Photography/Design studios with Adobe products

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I am currently looking into providing a solution for my Photography studio teams and the retouchers who work with them. We have Adobe Creative Suite running on most of the machines here. The photographers churn out photos onto our fileservers constantly and it eats up the space. The fileservers are all saving files on our SAN. These photographs then get worked on by our retouching teams which then go from what they were in size to multiplying because of all of their layers etc.

They all are running on High Sierra. They are saving files on a Windows 2003 server and a Windows 2012 server. The bandwidth we have at our head office is a dedicated 200MB link with the capability to increase.

Based on the fact that we have Adobe Creative Suite, is there a way of having a centralised location which these guys can work on in the cloud? If not, then is Adobe Lightroom a suitable option?

The only thing I'm wondering is whether working on local servers will always be far quicker than any cloud based systems due to the fact that transfers are all gigabit on the LAN and that the cloud cant match that at the moment?

Any help would be great as I am looking into implementing a decent solution.

Thanks for helping
Yashy
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The only thing I'm wondering is whether working on local servers will always be far quicker than any cloud based systems due to the fact that transfers are all gigabit on the LAN and that the cloud cant match that at the moment?

Yes.  A local server will be faster than a cloud server.  It's not only the upload and download speed, but the ping times that affect the experience.  

If your users are all on Mac, why are you using Windows for a file server?  Do you have other users on Windows?
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"If your users are all on Mac, why are you using Windows for a file server?  Do you have other users on Windows"
We have a mixed environment as a lot of users also access those pictures (not for editing) to upload the content onto the website and those guys use Windows.

Are you suggesting a Mac server which they can connect to instead of a Windows one?

Also that wouldn't resolve our space issues right? Do you know of any solutions and what others who work in a creative environment do?

Thanks again
Yash
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I was looking into an enterprise level solution i guess. A Synology NAS will merely be a NAS. We have a SAN which is far faster.