“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”

by Sam Morris on July 20, 2010

I’ve always heard stories about restaurants that throw challenges at their patrons claiming, “if you eat the whole thing, you don’t have to pay for it.” 

I’ve most recently heard about the “World Famous” 72-ounce (about 2 kilograms) steak dinner that one can get for free (if eaten in 1 hour).  This feast is offered by the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas.

To quote their web site, “Many have tried.  Many have failed.”

Just as 72-ounce steaks will provide a significant challenge to the gastro-intestinal systems of the average human being, so too do large files when one attempts to transfer them via legacy file transfer systems.

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What’s that guy wearing?

by Sam Morris on June 18, 2010

One of my favorite tales by Hans Christian Andersen is titled “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” In this story, a couple of swindling weavers offer to make a suit of clothes for a gullible emperor, invisible to anyone not sufficiently intelligent or capable.  The suit of clothes wasn’t real, of course, but since the emperor and his ministers couldn’t see it, they wouldn’t risk pointing out that fact and being exposed as stupid and incompetent.

Over the years, there have been many times when I’ve found myself nodding my head in pretend understanding when various technical acronyms, jargon and concepts are thrown around in a meeting or during a presentation. I feel like one of those advisors, pretending to know something that I do not, and I kind of feel like everyone else in the room is either like the advisor, or like the swindlers.

No invisible clothes here…

Since we use the acronyms SSL and SSH frequently in these blog posts, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to provide some fundamental description of what they are and what they do.

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MOM Doesn’t Always Know Best

May 12, 2010

This past weekend in the United States, Mother’s Day was celebrated. This special day affords all the opportunity to reflect on, among many other things, the wonderful wisdom imparted over the years from our mothers. In the words of Dr. Benjamin Spock, “I really learned it all from mothers.”
It’s no surprise then, when dealing with [...]

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IT veteran authors new eBook on file transfer security and reliability

April 26, 2010

If you’re an IT professional and you’re looking for guidance on how to go about strengthening the security and reliability of file transfer in your organization, then you will want to read The Shortcut Guide to Eliminating Insecure and Unreliable File Transfer Methods written by Dan Sullivan.  This eBook, published by Realtime Publishers and sponsored [...]

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The perils of Do-it-Yourself (DIY) file transfer

April 20, 2010

My parents have always been real do-it-yourselfers. When I was a kid, every weekend seemed consumed with remodeling some room, or landscaping some portion of our yard. Sometimes they knew what they were doing, sometimes they didn’t. Some of their work has stood the test of time…some of it has had to be replaced.
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You DO need a file transfer strategy

April 14, 2010

Being a marketer, I will occasionally come up with profoundly thought-provoking questions, such as “Is Your Existing File Transfer Strategy Effective?” Maybe the first question you are asking yourself upon hearing that particular question is “do I need a file transfer strategy?” After all, would you apply the concept of a strategy to an ordinary [...]

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Why are we blogging anyway?

April 9, 2010

If your business is like most businesses, there’s electronic data in motion all of the time. It’s flying through the air over wireless networks, or pumping through the cables in your walls. It’s jumping in messages between people, and it’s racing between your servers. Electronic data moves into your organization from the outside, and goes [...]

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