In 2011 both GlobalSCAPE® and Ipswitch® reduced the amount of effort they put into their CuteFTP® and WS_FTP® secure file transfer brands, leading some to wonder if these two venerable brands were on their last legs. To understand how much less effort was spent in 2011, we conducted an review of publicly available release notes from 2007-2011. [...]
File Transfer Governance
December 29, 2011 By
File Transfer Consulting and Primeur have collaborated on a new white paper that redefines managed file transfer from the perspective of business units served by shared IT services. >> Download the PDF: “File Governance for File Transfer” “Too many teams behave as if their customers were individual end users rather than the business units that [...]
Top Three Managed File Transfer Trends of 2011
October 25, 2011 By
Since we aren’t tightly coupled to one particular vendor in the managed file transfer industry, File Transfer Consulting has the opportunity to see things from a slightly different perspective. We also got some interesting feedback from the folks who participated in our free 30-minute industry consultations and the dozens of people we talked to running [...]
Managed File Transfer Budget Survey to Reveal Trends in Data Exchange
September 6, 2011 By
A managed file transfer budget survey circulated by File Transfer Consulting will soon yield results that will help transmissions teams and IT leaders plan their 2012 managed file transfer budgets. Managed file transfer teams will soon be able to benchmark their budgets against industry standards, thanks to a new survey now being circulated by File [...]
Difference Between Secure File Transfer and Managed File Transfer
July 26, 2011 By
One of the most common questions I encounter today is “what is the difference between secure file transfer and managed file transfer?” The short answer is that managed file transfer is secure file transfer PLUS several additional capabilities and a different sales and support model. The remainder of this article delves into the specific technological [...]
Forrester’s “Managed File Transfer Solutions” – Good, Bad and Ugly
July 14, 2011 By
I was delighted when Forrester’s Ken Vollmer published his “Market Overview: Managed File Transfer Solutions,” to help fill the space that Gartner vacated when it elected to drop the Magic Quadrant for Managed File Transfer. Vollmer provides a good introduction to the market – though of course I have my quibbles. So, without further ado, [...]
How do Managed File Transfer and eDiscovery relate?
July 14, 2011 By
With eDiscovery costs of $30,000 or more per trial, smart companies are now taking a closer look at the files that pass through their managed file transfer systems. As the name implies, “managed” file transfer adds a layer of monitoring and non-repudiation that “unmanaged” file transfers using email, plain old FTP or web-based file send [...]
Is Managed File Transfer dead?
June 21, 2011 By
Now that Gartner has marked the “Managed File Transfer” magic quadrant as “Retired” (see this), vendors, buyers and consultants alike are anxious to know whether or not the managed file transfer industry is dead. However, before we can answer that question, we need to make sure we can define the role managed file transfer (“MFT”) [...]
What features should I expect in a managed file transfer product?
June 1, 2011 By
We often hear people ask “what should I expect in a managed file transfer product?” A lot of that depends on your own needs, but managed file transfer capabilities can generally be grouped as follows. Table Stakes – the features that almost every managed file transfer vendor has. – Lots of protocol support (e.g., FTP/S, [...]
