How many times are you paying for the same file?

Distributed teams are often incurring hidden costs by storing and moving the same files across NAS, VPN copies, sync folders, and email attachments, driving unnecessary storage spend, slower collaboration, and version-confusion risk. For CIOs and technology leaders, the strategic issue is no longer whether the office-centric file stack works, but whether it can support modern distributed work without multiplying data sprawl, governance gaps, and security exposure. IT organizations should treat file infrastructure as a business efficiency and control problem, not just a storage problem, and modernize around existing investments rather than continuing to fund workarounds.