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Wide area file services (WAFS) products allow remote office users to access and share files globally at
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speeds over the WAN. Distributed enterprises that deploy WAFS solutions are able to consolidate storage to corporate datacenters, eliminating the need to back up and manage data that previously resided in their remote offices. WAFS uses techniques such as SMB and
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protocol optimization,
data compression In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compressio ...
, and sometimes storing recurrent data patterns in a local
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. WAFS is a subset of
WAN optimization WAN optimization is a collection of techniques for improving data transfer across wide area networks (WANs). In 2008, the WAN optimization market was estimated to be $1 billion, and was to grow to $4.4 billion by 2014 according to Gartner, a tech ...
, which also caches
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Intranet and ASP applications and
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multimedia traffic as well, to accelerate a greater percentage of WAN traffic. The term was coined by Brad O'Neill of the analyst firm
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in a May 2004 article for ''InfoStor'' magazine.


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"WAFS reins in remote office backup"
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