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

Server/Storage Consolidation

Streamline and consolidate branch office IT without introducing risk or sacrificing performance. Reap the benefits of server and storage consolidation—happy branch office users and secure, accurate data.

The Challenge: Overcoming Consolidation Challenges

Server and storage consolidation projects aim to simplify branch office IT and centralize file server and data management at corporate headquarters. A streamlined, consolidated remote IT environment helps lower branch TCO while leveraging best practices for compliance and data integrity in the data center. Yet challenges abound.

Branch Office IT Challenges

Good IT practices are notoriously difficult to maintain in branch office environments. Lack of trained IT staff and poorly maintained backup processes conspire to put business information at risk. When branch offices maintain their own data stores, data proliferates and version control becomes problematic—resulting in multiple copies, out-of-control information management issues and unchecked data growth at the branch.

Exploding Data Growth

As the number of remote users increases—along with increased use of data—provisioning new servers and storage arrays becomes more difficult to predict (and only increases the management issues). This problem compounds with new requirements to centralize data arising from Regulatory Compliance--such as HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley—and new corporate standards to control data.

Slow File Access for Users

Maintaining an acceptable level of service to branch office users is key to consolidation success. Round trips between client and server that once took seconds in a LAN environment now take minutes to traverse the network. This is the reason so many consolidation projects fail.

Impact on Other WAN Traffic

Consolidate servers, and suddenly much more traffic starts to run over the WAN—and much more bandwidth is required to run them. File opens and saves occurring across the WAN will crowd out time-critical applications like voice or ERP that need precious network resources.

Data Integrity and Accuracy Risk

Attempt to ensure complete data integrity and consistency in the event of WAN disruptions or appliance failures at the branch office. Eliminating additional risk during save operations across the WAN poses a new set of challenges.

Residual Servers in the Branches

Keep a few local servers around to circumvent these challenges and forfeit the advantages of true server and storage consolidation. The temptation to keep functions like print handling and domain controller at the edge may be great, but lead to an incomplete and unsatisfactory solution.

The Packeteer Solution: Consolidation without Compromise

Enjoy server and storage consolidation without performance or security compromise. Packeteer solutions overcome the challenges of storage/server consolidation projects—poor performance and the inability to truly consolidate data and manage storage centrally. Ensure your server/storage consolidation projects succeed with the unique Packeteer WAFS (Wide Area File Services) solution that:

• Dramatically accelerates performance
• Increases capacity and utilization of links
• Single instance of corporate data for compliance, integrity and control
• Consolidates and delivers key IT services at each branch in a single device

Delivering on the Promise

Realize the promise of server consolidation with Packeteer WAFS solution enabling efficient, effective centralized storage and data to branch locations. Lower cost and complexity at the branch by consolidating more than just storage—also file and data integrity management—to the central site.

LAN-like Performance for Branch Users

Working in concert, protocol acceleration and data reduction techniques deliver LAN-like performance over the WAN. The Packeteer solution starts to fix Microsoft file access and WAN latency issues by dramatically accelerating the underlying communications protocol. Next, it reduces WAN impact and avoids overload using sophisticated data reduction technologies that leverage file or word differencing to transmit only file changes. And use pre-population to move large files during off hours to even out network utilization and improve user performance.

Secure, Accurate, High Integrity Data

Overcome storage protocol risks due to frequent WAN disruption and outages, safeguarding data and isolating remote users from network problems. The Packeteer solution is a drop-in appliance that offers virtualized storage access across the WAN and a single, virtual instance of corporate data for compliance, integrity and control.

Using unique lock/lease management and asynchronous write back, data survives WAN disruptions. High Availability (HA) features at the branch and data center yield further protection from disasters.

Eliminate Branch office Servers

Consolidate and deliver key IT services at a branch location in a single "Branch Office in a Box" device. Centrally manage multiple server functions at the branch office—providing local functions like print, domain controller authentication, DNS, DHCP and SMS upgrade and patch distribution. All server functions are handled on a single device to simplify management and administration—consolidate five boxes down to one!

Slash TCO

Control data growth and distributed storage costs without compromising performance or security. Central management features manage device deployment from a central site. Centralized monitoring and logging provides visibility into data optimization amounts, appliance CPU, memory and disk usage for any device. Run software upgrades from the Web-based GUI, pushing out to an entire network of devices.

Secure IT Environment Fit

The Packeteer solution—software or hardware—slots natively into the existing Windows infrastructure and is compatible with end-to-end Microsoft file security, a critical attribute. Enjoy optimization from Microsoft SMS software upgrade and patch distribution to branch offices.

Economy and Scale

Scale up to hundreds of remote sites with solutions that match different office sizes. Mobile workers employ an entirely software-based solution. As many as five hundred branch office users are accommodated with our top-of-the-line branch office appliance—or even implement a software-based deployment. Hardware independent, implement the solution on qualified servers from HP, IBM or Dell. Cluster devices at data center for additional levels of redundancy.

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