Top File Transfer Headaches and How to Find Relief

May 25, 2012
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It is no surprise that transferring enterprise data continues to be a hot topic that impacts organizations large and small. Everyone transfers files, but not everyone transfers files securely, effectively and efficiently. This can lead to painful headaches for IT staff and end users. Aberdeen analyst Derek Brink wrote in his report “Secure/Managed File Transfer: [...]

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6 Ways FileXpress MFT Technology Delivers File Transfer Solutions

May 16, 2012
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Are you the conqueror of your IT department?  Are you looking for a challenge to knock off your to do list? Well look no farther than the file transfers that go on in your organization and become the hero.  Chances are that you’ll run into one of these issues:   There is no efficient and [...]

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Security and Compliance Risks with FTP

May 2, 2012

We’ve previously written about the shortcomings of file transfer protocol (FTP) and how organizations using FTP are putting themselves at risk for security and compliance issues. Though FTP is convenient and inexpensive, it can carry devastating consequences. Despite the warnings, 51 percent of organizations use FTP sites to send and exchange large files. I recently [...]

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5 Capabilities Enhancing Server-to-Server File Transfer

April 4, 2012
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In the last post we looked at key use cases for server-to-server file transfer, where existing solutions tend to fall down, and the evolving requirements that support IT’s need to both maintain a reliable data infrastructure and respond quickly to new business initiatives. In this post, we’ll look briefly at the modern technology in managed [...]

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5 factors compelling enhanced server-to-server file transfer

March 16, 2012
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Routine, scheduled and automated file transfers between servers occur in a wide range of use cases in just about every organization. In this post, we will begin a two part series and look at those use cases and the top five factors compelling enhanced server-to-server file transfer. In the next blog post we will look at [...]

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File Transfer Governance? What’s that?

February 28, 2012
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“File Transfer Governance” isn’t a term you hear very often.  But it relates to the kinds of rules you deal with in everyday life. Rules are guiding principles for everything. There are rules to govern the way you conduct yourself at your job, at the gym, as you participate in hobbies and as a citizen. [...]

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Upgrading your pipes – SSH for a secure file transfer infrastructure

February 17, 2012
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In the modern world where we live, constant advancement, refinement and people’s needs regularly demand infrastructure overhauls to a road, building or city, where what was reliable and efficient before, has quickly become unreliable and vulnerable to failure.  Data is the new water, secure file transfer is the new “pipe” Even the most common and [...]

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Classic File Transfer Fails

January 27, 2012
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Failure is not a term sought after by most. People do not start a project with the intention to fail, but rather to succeed. The same is true for the key file transfers that keep your business moving. Nobody wants to be set up for failure; however, with the wrong tools in place, failure is [...]

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How You Know it is Time for a File Transfer Strategy

December 29, 2011

  Before you decide it’s time for a new home appliance, there are usually signs that indicate it’s time to bring in the new and recycle the old. Your washer and dryer aren’t what they used to be. From funny noises, to clothes left stained and damp, the signs are hard to ignore. The same [...]

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Research Tools to Evaluate MFT Solutions

December 16, 2011

We talk a lot about the benefits of an MFT solution on the “Data in Motion” blog. But once you’ve identified the need for MFT, how do you go about selecting the best one? We thought it might be helpful to provide you with some research tools to utilize when evaluating your options and selecting [...]

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