Abstracting Data Locations
[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
There are three areas in particular where applications need to help in achieving a manageable environment:
By following these guidelines, applications allow the enterprise network to be used much more flexibly. In particular, they enable three kinds of usage that have not been possible before:
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Roaming use. You can log on to any unused computer in your organization and have all your settings and data available to you.
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Mobile use. When you take your laptop home or on a trip, you automatically have access to cached copies of the network data you need.
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Side-by-side computer replacement. If your computer fails, you can replace it with a new one within minutes, recovering your configuration and data automatically.