MS DFS - Leveraging the Benefits and Filling the Gaps

 
Here is an interesting White Paper that Peer Software has Co-Published with TechTarget.This e-guide covers the following: 

Why use Microsoft DFS
Problems with FRS - The advantage of DFS R2
DFS R2 improvements - Namespaces and replication
The DFS R2 limitations: No file locking
Tools that add file locking to Microsoft DFS

Microsoft DFS: Leveraging the Benefits and Filling the Gaps

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How do you optimize DFS such that version conflict is limited among multiple collaborative locations?

DFS (Distributed File System) was introduced in Windows 2000 to manage shared resources across a network and to more easily locate and access them. However, its capabilities were limited, particularly in facilitating high availability across distributed environments; generally, users found it cumbersome to replicate shared resources over slow links. DFS in Windows Server 2003 offered [...]

Global Full Mesh File Mirroring Through TCP

The pressures of globalization have presented organizations with a fundamental challenge: how do you establish local “footprints” while maintaining central control – and oversight – of everything from standard business transactions and practices to underlying IT processes.
Circumstances on the ground are ever-changing; it’s not just the pace of business that has quickened, synapses have too, as [...]

Peer Software Announces PeerSync 7.4, Providing Expanded Functionality and Improved Performance for Enterprise-Level Synchronization and Backup

PeerSync 7.4 Offers Tighter Integration With PeerLock and Enhanced Scanning to More Efficiently Handle Large Volumes of Data and Complex Directory Structures. 

Peer Software on January 31st released PeerSync v7.4. This version offers numerous new features and performance enhancements, most notably tighter integration with PeerLock, providing more flexibility and control over file locking and releasing within [...]