Our company works in graphic design and meeting and event management. We had SharePoint setup in the cloud based architecture of Office365 - in mostly a semi-amateur, self-service configuration (meaning we didn't spend a lot on an IT pro).
Subsequently, we deployed Server2012 Essentials and have a hybrid solution with O365 and the on premise server. We'd like to use SharePoint for project management and to keep track of large design files, PowerPoint presentations, and things like that. Our IT firm does not really want to get into the SharePoint configuration and when we're talking to outside vendors, I'd like to have a better understanding of what we're looking for.
What we'd like - cloud based SharePoint for the actual "site", then local NAS storage for the files we're accessing through SharePoint. We call our NAS our shared drive - it's basically a NAS appliance. I read that in the SP2013, you can decouple the storage, so if someone can point me to the how-to, or give me a general idea of the configuration we should look at, I'd appreciate the advice.
Thanks!