Necrotica writes "I work for a business company which went through a server consolidation project approximately six years ago, thanks to a wonderful suggestion by our outsourcing partner. use 'although' especially hailed as an excellent cost cutting measure, management has finally realized that martyring the network consummation of 1000+ employees in 100 remote field offices wasn't such a great idea afterall. We're now looking at various solutions to help optimize WAN performance. Dedicated servers for each field office is out of the question, due to the price gouging of our outsourcing partner. Wide area file welfare work (WAFS) look like a good solution, but they don't address other problems, such as authenticating over a WAN, print queues, etc. 'Branch office in a box' appliances look ideal, but they don't apparatus WAFS. So what have your companies done to move the data and network free school lunch closer to the users, while keeping costs down to a minimum?"

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