1. Solutions

1. Streamline Branch Office IT

1. Intelligent Acceleration

1. Network Visibility

1. Application QoS

1. Voice & Video

1. Application Server
   Consolidation

1. Manage WAN Costs

1. Migrating to MPLS

1. Satellite/Long Haul

1. Server/Storage Consolidation

1. Real-time File Collaboration

1. Government

Overcome performance and data integrity risks inherent in file access across the WAN—or across the world.

The Challenge: Slow, Unreliable File Access and Saves

Just about every office team file shares or uses specialized data management applications to ensure that everyone works from a common base. Introduce remote offices and users into the mix, and look out for trouble.

Workarounds Abound

Accessing and sharing files and data over the WAN is impossibly slow and requires workarounds to facilitate global collaboration. E-mailing files, FTP and other forms of replication create hordes of stale, out-of-synch and redundant data that consume storage. One change to shared data turns into a nightmare of notification and file updating.

The Packeteer Solution: Real-time File Collaboration

Packeteer WAFS (Wide Area File Services) solution enables real-time collaboration and file sharing around the globe—or across town—with a transparency and ease never before possible. Through the deployment of an appliance or software solution in each location, all offices share common access to centralized storage and server resources at LAN-like speeds.

Save Hours per Day

Save hours each day through faster, real-time data access to a shared, single global dataset whether collaborating through file sharing or knowledge management applications such as Microsoft SharePoint. No more searching for the most current file version or time-consuming merging changes over e-mail. Instead, enjoy dramatic improvements to user productivity and collaborate in ways never before thought possible.

Opening and Saving Files

Less is More (Efficient)

Packeteer iShared data reduction technologies—such as file caching, data compression and dictionary-based data reduction—reduce what needs to be sent over the WAN. Only unique data makes the trip; redundant data doesn't.

Maintain Data Integrity and Reduce Risk

Overcome storage protocol risks due to frequent WAN disruption and outages, safeguarding remote users from network problems. With 100 percent coherency via lock/lease management, iShared asynchronous write-back with synchronous logging to RAID disk ensures data integrity and survives WAN disruptions. Data stays safe!