GlobalSCAPE's 100% software solutions inexpensively deliver new levels of acceleration, remote-site file sharing, and continuous backup. The software runs on your existing Windows servers - just load the Agent on a server at one or multiple sites. Only file differences at the byte level, compressed, ever transfer. The software operates in real time, with advanced acceleration and optimization techniques performed end-to-end.
GlobalSCAPE's replication software delivers real-time and global data solutions for all Windows server platforms. The software mirrors multidirectionally between any number of remote servers, without file conflicts, open-file issues, or changes to any LAN, WAN, router, or user configuration.
Wide Area File Services (WAFS) allows branch office users to access and share files over the WAN at LAN speeds through proprietary algorithms that continuously monitor file changes at the byte level and transfer only the differences. WAFS also supports native file locking, so users can access files with WAFS exactly the same way they do on the LAN, except that they can share files and work with any branch office, anywhere, as if it were locally connected.
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) backs up all of your data as quickly as any changes are made. If you need to roll back to a previous version of a file, or even roll back the entire data set, with CDP you can restore that backup to any point in time. The servers backup in real time as files change to your backup site, which can be at the same location, or at any remote location. Your data will safely mirror to disk at the backup site, continually and in real time, as it changes. CDP ensures that bandwidth is eliminated, and latency will not affect the integrity and availability of the mirrored data. Should anything happen to your servers, you can failover to the backup or any second site. The backup server can keep any number of past versions of each file (and deleted files) and allows you to restore from point-in-time snapshots. Restore via browser, direct from disk, or recreate an entire server transparently over the network.
Enterprise combines the functionality of WAFS and CDP into one package. Run Enterprise on your servers if you need a true wide area file service with file acceleration and real-time mirroring, but you also need continuous file server backup that keeps track of all changes made and allows you restore data to any point in time.
An example Enterprise deployment at an engineering firm includes the following software:
In Boston, deploy Enterprise to provide a multidirectional solution for engineering files.
In Chicago, deploy WAFS Multi-Directional, which coherently synchronizes the engineering files with the Boston and Denver sites.
In Denver, deploy WAFS Multi-Directional, which coherently synchronizes the engineering files with the Boston and Chicago sites.
Finally, deploy a Backup in NYC, to backup the accounting files.
WAFS/CDP is comprised of the following components:
The Server acts as the hub, directing traffic, synchronizing mirrors, ensuring file coherency, and resolving any file conflicts. In all deployment scenarios, a single instance of Server is used.
An Agent is installed on those computers in which data is directly accessed. Agents communicate directly and only with the Server.
Jobs are the basic building blocks of a WAFS deployment. Jobs are a collection of synchronized folders and the links between them. Once an Agent adds a folder on its local computer to a Job, full synchronization is ensured between that folder and folders on other computers that are linked to that same Job. You can create up to 60 Jobs per Agent.
The Vault is the working space on the Server that stores one or more Jobs' current file versions, past versions, deleted files, and log files. The default location is C:\AD.
For examples of how GlobalSCAPE customers are using WAFS in their organizations, review the various case studies available at http://www.globalscape.com/products/casestudies.aspx.