Patent ID: 8458295

Claim:
A computer network comprising: a wide area network; and a local area network comprising: an application server, wherein the application server is configured to launch one or more applications, a plurality of client computers, a content delivery server storing content received from the wide area network and configured to enable streaming delivery of the content to one or more of the plurality of client computers within the local area network, and wherein the content delivery server is further configured to be implemented as a supplemental application server when the application server is inoperable, and a network-attached storage (NAS) device having data storage capacity, wherein the wide area network transmits data for storage by the NAS device through the content delivery server during a period of low demand for bandwidth between the local area network and the wide area network, wherein the content delivery server transmits files including image files and configuration files of the application server within the local area network to the NAS device, wherein the content delivery server is configured to use the files stored on the NAS device for at least one of disaster recovery and survivability of the application server within the local area network, and wherein the files used for the at least one of disaster recovery and survivability of the application server within the local area network are retrieved locally from the NAS device rather than from the wide area network.