Cache Servers

Hi all

We have had 2 new servers installed in our office (2003). We have been told
that these servers now only hold cached copies of our current data, and
don't actually hold the physical data.
The physical data is held on servers in another office, and it is cached
onto our new servers. Is this just some sort of dfs setup? I'm a bit unsure
what is going on with the whole cached idea.

Thanks

Not enough information, but there are solutions out there (e.g. Packeteer,
Cisco, Riverbed) that help optimize WAN utilization. Since my site just
started looking into these types of solutions to help our branch offices,
here is a link to Packeteer's iShared appliance.

http://www.packeteer.com/products/ishared/

I found reading the pdf links on the right help you get a feel for how
caching appliances work.


"Exit12" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> We have had 2 new servers installed in our office (2003). We have been
> told
> that these servers now only hold cached copies of our current data, and
> don't actually hold the physical data.
> The physical data is held on servers in another office, and it is cached
> onto our new servers. Is this just some sort of dfs setup? I'm a bit
> unsure
> what is going on with the whole cached idea.
>
> Thanks
>
>