Maintaining a single, centralized copy of data has always been IT’s goal. However, the distributed nature of organizations, coupled with the slow speed and high latency of wide-area networks, has resulted in a proliferation of servers – and therefore data – in branch offices. Learn how the emergence of wide area file services (WAFS), a technology for transferring files over wide-area links with LAN-like response times, is enabling IT to again centralize applications and data. This whitepaper from Juniper Networks provides a detailed look at WAFS issues and technologies.