Beamz is a cloud-based finite elements analysis software.
Beamz is hosted in Europe, in 2 differents European cloud providers, in different data centers, to avoid as much as possible the disaster of a data center loss or cloud provider loss.
Backups are stored in different locations, allowing a state-of-the-art disaster recovery.
It's possible to only use local storage.
But, in this case, you will not be able to use the cloud features of Beamz, like history, sharing structures among colleagues or students, seeing colleagues' modifications, ...