Enterprise IT organizations have been challenged with centralizing distributed server infrastructure due to the need to maintain compliance, improve data protection, and control costs, without compromising the productivity and experience of the remote office user.

Accessing applications that are rich in content, such as e-mail, over WAN links with high latency, packet loss, and bandwidth constraints creates performance challenges for end users and can quickly overwhelm existing WAN infrastructure. To overcome those challenges, many IT organizations have been forced to deploy, manage, and protect local infrastructure at every small to medium remote location