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A File Collaboration job provides distributed teams a fast and efficient way to collaborate with shared project files.  Unlike other file collaboration solutions that centralize files into a single data repository that cause slow file access across a WAN, a File Collaboration job replicates shared project files to each office site in a distributed environment so that end users are guaranteed high-speed LAN access to shared files no matter their file size.  Version conflicts are prevented through integrated distributed file locking.

By keeping hot data local, File Collaboration maximizes end user productivity.  Because files are close to the users, their applications, and their compute resources, the actual performance is as fast as possible from a physical view.  At the same time File Collaboration ensures version conflicts are eliminated with file locking.