ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION
Your Infrastructure Is Costing You More Than Your Lease
AEC firms run on large files, tight deadlines, and fixed-fee contracts. The infrastructure you are on was built for neither. InMotion Cloud is managed private cloud built for the way AEC projects actually work.
Three problems every AEC firm knows
The principal IT tax
Your highest-billing person is fixing VPN issues, managing storage alerts, and troubleshooting file sync errors. At $500 per hour, five hours a week is $130,000 a year in lost billing.
Two vendors, one problem
Egnyte runs on Google Cloud. Panzura and Nasuni run on AWS or Azure. When infrastructure breaks, those vendors open a ticket with their cloud provider. You wait for two queues to resolve one problem.
Variable costs on a fixed-fee business
Architecture firms bill on fixed contracts. Cloud platforms with per-user licensing and variable infrastructure costs underneath make next month’s bill impossible to predict. Your infrastructure billing should work like your project billing.
Data lives in every phase. Your infrastructure has to keep up
- 01
Proposal
RFP and Scope
- 02
Schematic
Early Concept
PEAK LOAD - 03
Design Dev
All Disciplines
PEAK LOAD - 04
CDs
Final Drawings
- 05
CA
Field Access
10-YR LIABILITY - 06
Archive
10-Year Storage
Every phase creates data in different formats. Every location needs access: studio, job site, home office, client meeting. Most infrastructure was not built to handle this. InMotion Cloud was.
- DWG
- Revit
- SketchUp
- Rhino
- PDF sets
- RFIs
- cold archives
Three things. Nothing more
Your files, anywhere. No VPN
We own our data centers in Los Angeles and Ashburn, VA. Your data lives on our hardware, not borrowed from AWS. It maps as a network drive and works from any location without a VPN client.
One flat monthly number
Spin up compute when a project ramps. Shift to cold archival in a slow season. Your invoice does not move. No recontracting, no overages, no surprise upgrades. One number, every month.
A human who picks up
25 years of infrastructure support. We own the hardware, so when something breaks we fix it. Not a third-party ticket queue. One call. One person. Done.
The other options run on someone else’s hardware
| FEATURE | EGNYTE | PANZURA / NASUNI | AWS / AZURE DIRECT | INMOTION CLOUD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure backend | Google Cloud (shut down own data centers in 2022) | Customer chooses: AWS, Azure, or Google. Billed separately. | Their hardware. Shared with millions of tenants. | Our own hardware in LA and Ashburn, VA. Private. Nobody else is on it. |
| Billing model | Per-user licence. Cloud storage costs sit underneath and vary. | Software licence plus separate cloud storage bill. Two invoices. | Fully variable. Spikes with every file transfer and compute event. | One flat monthly number. No egress fees. No overages. Ever. |
| Support when it breaks | Software support only. Google handles the infrastructure below. | Platform vendor handles software. Cloud provider handles infra. Two queues. | No one to call. You manage the full stack yourself. | One call. We own every layer. We fix it. |
| Hot and cold storage tiers | No native tiering. Storage cost depends on Google Cloud usage. | Tiering exists but cloud cost varies by provider choice. | Available but complex to configure. DIY. | Managed hot and cold tiers built in. Archive liability covered. |
| Built for AEC specifically | No. Built for general enterprise content governance. | Partially. File system is AEC-aware but infra is generic public cloud. | No. Built for DevOps teams with cloud engineering resources. | Yes. Fixed billing, owned hardware, and managed support built around AEC workflows and liability windows. |
- Infrastructure pedigree behind the product
- 25 yrs
- Customers on InMotion infrastructure
- 170,000+
- Egress fees on file transfers between studio, field, and clients
- 0
- Flat monthly. No overages. Ever.
- 1 bill
From assessment to live in four steps
- 1
Discovery call
30 minutes to understand your current setup, file sizes, and pain points.
- 2
Infrastructure map
We document your current architecture and identify the gaps specific to your project workflow.
- 3
Proof of concept
We run your actual workload on our environment so you can see performance before committing.
- 4
Go live
Fully managed migration. Your team notices nothing except it works.
What an AEC firm actually pays
Every plan is one flat monthly number. Pick by how much project data you carry, not by how many people touch it.
Explorer
Exploring Virtual Private Clouds
- 24 vCPU Cores
- 82 GB RAM
- 1.7 TB Storage
- Managed hours + senior engineers
Small
Startups & Small Projects
- 72 vCPU Cores
- 248 GB RAM
- 5.1 TB Storage
- Managed hours + senior engineers
Medium
Growing Businesses
- 150 vCPU Cores
- 520 GB RAM
- 10.5 TB Storage
- Managed hours + senior engineers
Large
Scaling Applications
- 380 vCPU Cores
- 1,360 GB RAM
- 26 TB Storage
- Managed hours + senior engineers
See what your move to InMotion Cloud looks like
- 1Discovery call
- 2Infrastructure map
- 3Proof of concept
- 4Go live