file transfer

Consumer-focused technologies that are deployed by employees can provide tremendous value to any business and can provide IT organizations with more functionality than they can afford or are willing to deploy. However, consumer technologies must be appropriately managed in order to satisfy corporate security, compliance and other requirements. This means integrating consumer technologies into the existing IT fabric in order to achieve the greatest possible synergies between consumer-focused and IT-deployed technologies.

Aberdeen Group research finds that file transfer has transformed from a loose collection of low-level protocols to full-featured, enterprise-class solutions for secure, reliable managed file transfer. This report examines how organizations benefit from managed file transfer solutions, and recommends steps to success for all organizations.

This Aberdeen Group research shows why you should be looking more closely right now at secure/managed file transfer solutions.

This whitepaper discusses the critical importance of finding a better alternative to email as a file-sharing mechanism. It also provides information on the sponsor of this white paper – Attachmate – and its relevant solutions.

Is your file transfer system keeping up with growing trading-partner requirements? Can it accommodate multiple platforms, protocols, and security standards? Can it successfully deliver large files, to the right person, on time? If uncertainty is part of your daily routine, you need to see this video.

From email to Dropbox and FTP, the file transfer process in most organizations is fraught with risk and simply does not meet most organizations’ corporate governance requirements. The result is that the status quo of file transfer in most organizations can be considered UFT—or Unmanaged File Transfer. What is needed to overcome the problem, therefore, is Managed File Transfer (MFT)—a solution that will enable complete control over content, its lifecycle, access rights to that information, the maintenance of an audit trail, and disposition of data according to corporate governance requirements. This white paper, sponsored by Attachmate and based on a survey conducted by Osterman Research, describes current file transfer practices and the extent of risk that organizations face by not managing file transfer properly. It also explains the benefits of MFT, provides guidelines for evaluating file transfer vendors, and describes FileXpress®, Attachmate’s MFT solution.

In a world where only the fittest survive, Axway can help. Our Managed File Transfer Survival Guide gives you a step-by-step plan for building a business case to ensure your success in managing the integrity of your data infrastructure. Download your complimentary survival guide today!

Industrializing IT Workload Automation," Forrester Consulting and BMC Software analyze the results of a comprehensive survey that addressed job scheduling on the ground today.

Hear VPs from Forrester Research and BMC Software discuss the results of our 2012 job scheduling survey in "Workload Automation Survey Results: Peer Insights and Expert Analysis.

Visit the IDC iView interactive library to get the analyst's take on how self service for workload automation can contain costs and improve service.

Online collaboration has allowed companies to leapfrog their competition. But how do they avoid risk? This paper explores options for high-productivity collaboration supporting security and compliance. Must reading for anyone interested in strategic IT and compliance!

Research and Education (R&E) networks are experiencing a surge in capacity demand as a result of the massive growth of streaming media (Netflix, Facebook, YouTube), growing utilization of public cloud services, and the continued need to support large scientific data file transfers for researchers collaborating around the globe. This increase in traffic is driving many operators to evaluate network backbone upgrades to 100G. Upgrading is necessary but costly. But what if operators could upgrade their R&E networks to 100G for 50 percent less CAPEX investment and extend the life of the existing routers, while actually simplifying the architecture to enable lower operational costs? Download our app note to learn how.

Functionality, cost effectiveness and efficiency drive your firm. Apply those standards to sharing large files if you want to beat competitors who use standard, less professional file-sharing tools with clients. Read this e-book to discover how you and your firm can: Avoid the unreliability and time-consuming limitations of FTP and email. Stop breaking up files and start tracking their status. Increase the speed of transferring proposals, specs and more without sacrificing security.

Modern MFT is designed to connect all of your information sources and consumers in a way that drives business agility with a simple user experience to manage data movement across your organization and beyond. With legacy and outsourced MFT technologies, companies are at a disadvantage when it comes to managing business-critical file transfers. Read this white paper to learn 10 considerations when evaluating the capabilities of your existing MFT solution or a replacement to help your business better meet existing and future use-case requirement.

Today, in the age of information, people are paid for their ideas: to create original knowledge products or add value to existing products. Given their self-reliance, it is not surprising that workers take pride in their outputs—up to half of employees take a portfolio of files with them when they leave. When employees move on, many feel entitled to the work they’ve created.They presume it is acceptable to transfer work documents to personal computers, removable media, tablets, smartphones or online file sharing apps. Some pilfered data is innocuous and already in the public realm. But some of it is classified. Read this paper to find out how to collect and secure data to protect operations, reputation and continuity when employees leave.

Examines IPv6 issues specific to file transfer applications, then tests 14 applications for readiness.

Patton Harris and Rust and Associates has 13 branches.  Management and IT needed a way to help these offices work on projects together to optimize company resources.  Using GlobalSCAPE WAFS gave PHR+A fast file access across branches using minimal system resources. No management is required as it operates in the background and real time byte level differencing not only reduces bandwidth usage and spikes but also the changes are sent as they happen – not when they are needed.

Jordan & Skala Engineers is a growing company with 5 offices.  It needed a scalable solution to optimize their network and their resources as more and more work was distributed across sites. Using GlobalSCAPE WAFS files mirror instantly in real time using byte-level differencing.  So as soon as a file is saved or closed, the file deltas appear in every other location on the network. Users are never waiting for files to upload, download, or open across a network.

AON’s Human Capital division needed a better way to automate their data transfer processes. They wanted a simple yet flexible system that didn’t require customization to adapt to growing needs.  They wanted to consolidate their sensitive data transfers and ensure the security of this data and to provide integration with current workflow and key legacy applications. AON deployed the GlobalSCAPE EFT (Enhanced File Transfer) server.

Williams Lea is a leading global provider of customized corporate information solutions. The company needed to reliably, easily and securely transfer sensitive files and implement a system to share files and ensure a business continuity/disaster recovery plan.  Today, Williams Lea uses the GlobalSCAPE’s Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) solution to provide secure protocol support and encryption to protect data in transit and at rest.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a detailed series of 130+ requirements that anyone who stores or transfers credit card data has to comply with.  However due to the protection it offers, the PCI DSS is fast becoming a security standard for all sensitive data that needs to be protected.  The goal of the standard is to ensure security of data in transit and at rest while ensuring compliance is maintained. 

This whitepaper provides guidance on common high-availability and scale-out deployment architectures, and discusses the factors to consider for your specific business environment. Three basic models are described for deploying an on-site managed file transfer (MFT) solution. The attributes of each option are described; each has pros and cons and offers a different balance of cost, complexity, availability, and scalability. The paper explains that, no matter how reliable each model is, any deployment can experience outages. The recommendation is to use clustering services to protect your data when the inevitable hardware, software, or network failures occur.

This whitepaper describes the formal and informal file-sharing methods business employees use to perform their daily functions and explains that, from sending small text documents to multi-gigabyte video files, the right managed file transfer (MFT) solution can allow such transfers to continue without risking the security of the corporate network. The paper explains that the right MFT solution can enable business growth, enhance operational efficiency, enable compliance, reduce costs, and increase ROI. Choosing the right MFT solution requires eight considerations described in the paper, and concludes by explaining why Globalscape solutions are the choice of our customers around the world.

This whitepaper examines the "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) movement, from carrying around a floppy disk to today's "cloud" services. This paper explains that employees may not be aware that their file transfer methods can cause a risk to security. Ways to ensure that employees can securely send files without risking corporate data security and what that dangers are with BYOD transfers are also discussed. Recent security breaches are referenced in the paper, and why such attacks are expected to continue into the future. The paper concludes with a description of how companies can ensure data security and how Globalscape's secure file transfer products meet and exceed that need.

Email. It can be the source of some of IT's biggest headaches. As it eats up storage and bandwidth, it also opens up holes in your IT security plan. But there is good news. Mail Express can easily solve your most troublesome headaches surrounding email and it can reduce costs, too!