Tacit Networks began shipping its Wide Area File Services (WAFS) solution based on Windows Storage Server 2003. The company already offered a UNIX implementation of the file sharing solution, which provides transparent availability to data for remote office users regardless of the physical location of enterprise storage systems.
Tacit Networks’ WAN-optimized protocol connects directly to industry-standard CIFS and NFS file systems and layers six simultaneous software technologies including differencing, data streaming, compression, data aggregation, I/O clustering and read-ahead. http://www.tacitnetworks.com
- Tacit Networks has developed an enterprise storage caching appliance designed to enable low-latency file sharing among geographically dispersed locations. The platform leverages a unique Storage Caching/ Internet Protocol (SC/IP) developed by Tacit Networks that is interoperable with existing storage, network and hardware infrastructure. The Tacit Storage Cache attaches directly to the LAN at a remote site and connects back to a Tacit Cache Server in the data center through a gateway using a standard VPN. From the LAN user’s perspective, the Storage Cache appears to be a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device, providing access to shared files using standard file sharing protocols like CIFS (for Windows) and NFS (for Unix). The Tacit Cache Server is a thin appliance that sits in front of a network attached storage (NAS) system at the data center and coordinates access by multiple remote Storage Caches to the consolidated storage resources. Tacit’s SC/IP protocol, which is run between the Tacit Storage Caches and the Tacit Cache Server, uses compression and file differencing to minimize the amount of data transferred over the network. The storage caching system is aimed at enterprises that need to share data in real time.