Moving To The Global Collaborative Economy

Three Key Requirements For Effective Real-Time Multi-Site Collaboration

Working collaboratively when users are geographically close together and storage is local is straightforward. File operations are performant and users can automatically leverage application-specific mechanisms that avoid accidental file "collisions" that result in overwriting.

However, significant challenges arise as soon as users are separated from the location in which files are physically stored. These challenges grow increasingly more difficult to overcome with distance and number of locations.

At this point, IT leaders discover that very few solutions are well equipped to empower distributed teams to work collaboratively on files. In fact, many organizations resort to cumbersome and expensive methods of file sharing including scheduled replication boosted by wide area network (WAN) acceleration in a bid to reduce the time it takes to achieve a measure of file consistency between locations.

In this free download, we explore the 3 key requirements for effective multi-site collaboration, the impact it has on organizational speed and overall enterprise value. We compare leading solutions Panzura and Nasuni and illustrate how their architecture and approach affect the outcomes you can expect to achieve.

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