Brocade WAFS consolidates enterprise-wide storage, simplifying branch office IT services and optimizing WAN file traffic to reduce operating costs and increase administrative productivity.
Branch Office Consolidation and Improved File Management
Brocade WAFS provides LAN-like read-write access to shared files across Wide Area Networks (WANs)-enabling organizations to consolidate their IT assets while unlocking significant productivity gains and protecting remote data. For enterprises with distributed locations, Brocade WAFS helps streamline branch office IT operations, improve operational efficiency, and centralize data management.
Brocade WAFS features a pair of appliances: the Brocade WAFS Core Appliance located at a central site with the file server and one or more Brocade WAFS Edge Appliances located at remote sites. This unique design can significantly improve critical business functions such as accelerating the performance of Microsoft Exchange-based e-mail and enabling global file sharing for centrally located data.
Because it centralizes the management of file, print, network, and Web caching services, WAFS helps reduce remote office servers, storage, and backup hardware requirements, as well as software and other related costs. In addition, it significantly reduces the need for remote site IT personnel and expensive site visits to support "lights-out" operation at multiple remote locations.
Highlights - Simplifies IT infrastructure with transparent network integration, storage consolidation, and centralized management of branch office operations
- Centralizes enterprise data management at the data center, eliminating the need for remote backup, storage systems, and associated software licenses
- Improves application performance and workforce productivity, enabling distributed users to collaborate in real time
- Improves resiliency and business compliance by managing common WAN disruptions and integrating advanced security standards in native Windows environments
- Reduces capital and operating expenditures through consolidation, greater resource sharing, and "lights-out" remote operations
Brocade and Microsoft Branch Office Solutions
| Microsoft and Brocade jointly provide branch office IT solutions based on the Windows platform, extending data center services to help optimize IT operations at remote locations. These solutions utilize Microsoft technology to provide a full range of file, print, network, and management services for branch offices. |  |
Calculate Potential ROI with Brocade WAFS
Brocade WAFS provides dramatic and rapid return on investment in the form of consolidation; IT process, labor, and bandwidth savings; productivity improvements; and greater overall flexibility. For remote file server and backup infrastructure that needs consolidation to a central location, go to http://www.brocade.com/products/tapestry/Server_ROI-Calculator.jsp to estimate the type of ROI you might expect from Brocade WAFS. |