Triumph Group International Replaced Dropbox and Google Drive Sharing With Files.com and European Storage

Triumph Group International is an Italian live-events group that has grown, since its founding in Rome in 1986, from a congress agency into the company governments call when a summit has to run perfectly. It staged the G20 leaders' summit in Rome, the G8 summits in Genoa and L'Aquila, and the ministerial meetings of Italy's 2017 G7 presidency. Its range runs the other direction too, from haute couture shows to drone swarms flown over the Venice lagoon and Singapore's Supertrees. The group operates through three brands, Triumph Group International, Centro Congressi Internazionale, and Twist Lab, from offices across Italy and in the US, UK, and Singapore.

That business runs on heavy creative files. Roughly 400 events a year each generate tender decks, company-profile presentations, event video in 4K, 8K, and 16K, and stand and booth graphics at print resolution. A 15-person creative team produces the work, and almost none of it stays inside the company. It goes out to roughly 35 external consultants and to clients wherever in the world the event is being built.

Multi-Terabyte Media for 400 Events a Year, Shared From Consumer Accounts

The creative department's digital art lived on Dropbox and Google Drive. Event media is nothing but large files: high-resolution footage and print-ready installation graphics that the team had to push out to consultants and pull back in, over and over, on event deadlines.

And the volume never stopped compounding, because event work is revision work.

“We have many revisions. The client says, yes, okay, but I want the logo bigger on the right part of the graphics. We send another revision and store all the revisions until final approval.”

Every revision was retained until final approval, and final files were kept for years. So the group's heaviest and fastest-growing archive, and its most external-facing data flow, sat in consumer accounts outside corporate identity, where the company could not say with confidence who could reach what.

NIS2 Arrived, and the CLOUD Act Question Had No Good Answer

Triumph needed to bring its creative estate and external sharing inside its compliance posture without losing the collaboration habits that kept event work moving. The consumer tools were not carelessness. They were the path of least friction for work that is external by nature, with consultants who change from event to event and clients who need files with zero setup. The team also had a habit worth keeping: two or three people editing the same document in Google Drive at once, watching each other's changes live. Any replacement that took that away would simply be routed around.

What ended the arrangement was regulation. As an Italian company, Triumph Group International is subject to the NIS2 directive, and its IT and cybersecurity leadership made alignment with NIS2 and GDPR the top priority, naming data residency, encryption, and secure file exchange with both internal users and external collaborators. Leadership also weighed the U.S. CLOUD Act and the legal exposure associated with data held by American providers, even in EU data centres. The directive did not create the problem; it removed the option of living with it.

The replacement had to support European storage chosen by the group. It had to take identity from Microsoft Entra ID, since the group runs a Microsoft 365 tenant and was moving its infrastructure to Azure, and feed activity into Azure Sentinel. It had to let consultants and clients receive and return heavy files with nothing to install. And it had to preserve live Office co-authoring, or the creative team would never leave.

Triumph Group International selected Files.com to be that governed front end.

One Files.com Front End Over European Buckets, With SharePoint Still Mounted

The design made Files.com the single interface over storage the group chose, with identity, permissions, and logging on top. Where the data lived was Triumph's decision, not the platform's. Working with its IT partner, the group began by mapping file ownership and departmental workflows so it could clean and restructure data as the phased migration progressed.

Nine departmental Wasabi object-storage buckets in Italy and Germany were mounted behind Files.com through Remote Server Mounts. The arrangement supported the group's residency requirements by placing selected data on European storage under its own accounts.

The design also preserved the collaboration habit. The group's SharePoint site was mounted as a remote server, so simultaneous editing of Office documents continued through the same governed interface. Google Drive, Dropbox, and an FTP server were mounted as well, creating a migration bridge: content still on the legacy systems could be reached through Files.com while departments moved into the new storage model, rather than through a single cutover weekend.

Corporate identity controlled access, external collaborators needed only a browser, and activity flowed into central monitoring. Entra ID provided single sign-on and automated account provisioning and deactivation. Consultants and clients received files through Files.com share links with folder- and file-level permissions, while audit activity fed Azure Sentinel.

The Group's Most External-Facing Data, Inside Its Compliance Posture

With Files.com in production, Triumph Group International replaced an external-sharing layer built on consumer accounts with a governed front end over storage it chose. What changed:

• The creative department's multi-terabyte media, from 16K footage to print-resolution booth graphics, now sits behind one Entra ID-authenticated Files.com interface, whether it is in the new departmental buckets or on connected systems being phased out.
• The Wasabi buckets place selected data in Italy and Germany on object storage under the group's own control, supporting its European data-residency requirements.
• Consultants and clients exchange files through permissioned share links, so deliveries and returned revisions can be governed through the same interface.
• Extending the model to the next department or brand means adding a bucket and group behind the same interface. The permission structure extends across Triumph, Centro Congressi Internazionale, and Twist Lab.

The Habits Stayed Through a Phased Move

Today, a designer can send a revised stand graphic to a consultant in Singapore through the same permissioned, logged interface used to send it to a colleague in Rome. European Wasabi buckets provide a governed destination for media moving off consumer accounts, while the mounted legacy systems let the group phase that transition without disrupting active event work.

The flow that used to be the group's least governed—its heaviest files moving through consumer accounts to people outside the company—is now brought behind corporate identity and central monitoring. And Triumph did not buy that by breaking the creative team's way of working. Live co-authoring continues through SharePoint mounted behind Files.com while the storage estate moves into the new model. The group never had to choose between the collaboration and the compliance; Files.com let it keep both.