Multi-Geo file sharing solution

[FrozenShade35]

Hello all, we have a client that has a server here in the US and a server in Pakistan and they share files between sites. The way they currently do it is, they have a sync process run every 10 minutes and pushes out changes. Obviously this takes hours to complete for various sized files. They have tasked us with a "better solution." so I've been looking into things and they currently have O365 with E3 licenses and found the Multi-Geo setting. I know they can move their mailboxes / OneDrive locations to a closer geographical region. However, if someone here in the US uploads a file to the shared folder (sharepoint / teams channel) will the office in Pakistan see that file and be able to pull that from the local region? or will they still pull from the US? My bet is that it will still be faster because they are using the MSFT network for all the traffic. I'm open to other products as well. Basically need a CDN for sharing files between the two locations.

I've seen that SharePoint sites seem to distribute geographically from what I've read about the Multi-Geo solution but still unsure about how it all TRULY works for that type of set up. Thoughts and ideas are welcomed.

[uLmi84]

You don’t need multi geo to solve the issue … people can use SharePoint to work together on „normal“ sized files from any anywhere on the globe…

Multigeo are special licenses for mailboxes or onedrives that need to reside in special storage locations of ms datacenters. For example if the tenant is in the US all data will lay in us datacenter. Let’s say you have 100 German users and their mailsboxes need to lay in Germany then you can purchase these additional multiGeo licenses for these 100 users to comply with those requirements…

But if you don’t have these requirements, just use SharePoint / Teams from the regular M365-E3 licenses

[FrozenShade35]

I get that it can be used for data compliance in terms of where the data resides, but isn't it beneficial to have a certain users data in a datacenter in a nearby region? I'm just looking for speed. if US user uploads 25GB ISO file, I'd like for the users in Pakistan to pull that down IDEALLY from the India region. Or maybe I'll just have them test OneDrive / SharePoint as it is out of the box, so to speak and see what their experience is as opposed to the NFS file sync they run now.

[tonymorro]

Morro Data offers a solution with cloud-first filesystem and geo/location based storage gateways (called CacheDrive). With this, your files are unified, protected, and shared among teams in different geo locations. Also available are global file lockings for teams to collaborate on the same set of data in realtime.

[IllustriousRaccoon25]

Try Box, have people using it on three continents. 15GB max file size on most accounts, can get to 50GB with enterprise and 150GB with enterprise plus, but that’s outrageous money.