Packeteer
iShared®
iShared is Packeteer’s Wide Area File Services (WAFS) solution product that will help your customers dramatically improve file access performance for branch locations and consolidate servers with confidence. The iShared solution can be delivered as fully-integrated Windows-based appliances or as Windows or Linux software to accommodate the way your customers do business.
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Why sell iShared?
Because the distributed workforce is the common business structure today and this trend is continuing to grow. Remote office end users demand LAN-like speed and file access, while IT administrators require the ability to manage data and storage growth, protect data that poses a risk at the branch location because of poor backup processes, as well as utilize technology that is designed to take into consideration compliance regulations such as SOX and GLBA. With iShared, the branch office becomes a streamlined, consolidated environment that does not sacrifice performance or introduce risk.
iShared addresses and solves the common performance and data integrity issues that are encountering when consolidating servers and storage at the branch office. Key features and benefits of iShared are:
- Fast File Performance: centralized files seem local with CIFS and TCP acceleration. Files can be opened, saved and managed remotely.
- Drastically Reduced WAN Traffic: File-aware, dictionary-based compression and read/write LRU RAID-backed caching reduces the amount of data sent—optimizing bandwidth consumption. Only data changes are transmitted—not entire files.
- Central Branch Office Management: Manage branch offices from a single point—not multiple servers—in the context of your existing Windows infrastructure without breaking Microsoft security.
- Eliminate Date Integrity Risk: Ensure data integrity and availability with maximum WAFS performance by protecting branch users from stale data, write collisions, WAN outages and system failures. iShared's distributed file system supports end-to-end security mechanisms like SMB signing or Ipsec. It also incorporates sophisticated journaling and recovery techniques that maintains full availability and transparency for file read/write operations in case of WAN disruptions/outages.
