GlobalSCAPE, Inc. announced the immediate availability of its upgraded Wide Area File Services™ (WAFS™) collaborative software platform, WAFS 5, at Autodesk in Las Vegas, NV. At the event, which brings together around 10,000 design, engineering, and manufacturing professionals, the software will be available for review and demonstration at Booth #354.
WAFS 5 simplifies enterprise collaboration, eliminates errors, and decreases bandwidth usage, providing secure, near real-time data access to both on-premises and cloud-based files located anywhere in the world. The software uses intelligent byte-level differencing technology to instantly update changes to files by multiple remote users with minimal impact on network bandwidth while also ensuring that files are never overwritten, even if opened by other remote users.
The latest version of WAFS includes significant enhancements to stability, performance, and security. Some highlights include:
- Upload performance up to eight times faster, download performance up to 10 times faster, copy speed performance up to 90 times faster
- Increased transparency of file replication activities between servers and desktops to check for errors and ensure delivery success
- Increased system reliability, especially during periods of network instability
- Reduced bandwidth utilization to ensure data transfers do not prevent mission-critical traffic from flowing in and out of the network
- Enhanced synchronization engine to ensure easy, secure file collaboration
