It's the local encodable media that hasn't been ideal for cloud storage. They had a SharePoint server running and local exchange, but even then, encoding over lan was not great. They dumped local exchange for Microsoft hosted, and dumped local SharePoint for Egnyte. It's worked out really well for the most part. A few of the users are into multiple TB of data that they need high availability, which is kept on their desktops mirrored to ELC and local Egnyte nas for direct cloud mirror on a device that can be accessible at a good speed, but still backed up by the cloud service.
We tried Solidworks on the SP2 and SP3, and it seems the drivers just aren't there yet. Modeling glitches, and some of their really large models seem to cause the units to hang after a while. I notice that the CPU will peg max turbo for about 5-15 seconds, then dip drastically lower probably due to thermal limits. Even so, it's a superb design IMHO for what it is. On desktop they can use Quadro cards. I like the FirePro stuff myself but as the Quadros always seemto be perfect with SW I just stick with it. 1tb raid 840 pro for a few, 500gb 840 pro for the rest, with spinners for bulk data. And of course their desktops allow for quad and hex Xeons. I tell them that i7 are mostly the same but the WS builds have worked wonderfully so far. Only downside is ECC ram isn't available with extremely high speeds.
They really like the Surface Pros for out of office work. They're also very pleased that the 3s have a taller screen, wide and short isn't ideal for business usage. Their desktops are all 16:10 @ 2560x1600, which replaced 1920x1200 with the old laptop setup.
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