According to the Zweig Group’s “2023 Information Technology Report of AEC Firms,” there was a noticeable shift from local storage to cloud storage for project archives between 2019 and 2023. The report highlights that the median AEC utilization of shared online disk storage in the cloud has increased from 3 terabytes to 17 terabytes, which shows the industry’s commitment to modernization. Egnyte, an enterprise file-sharing and content governance platform provider, confirmed that cloud storage solutions are becoming increasingly popular among its AEC customer base. This trend reflects the industry’s growing need to manage complex models, project drawings, simulations, and collaborative projects, which, in turn, is leading to a remarkable surge in data storage. All the versions of each of these respective file types will accumulate over the lifetime of the project. 

AEC Data Insights Report