Knowledge Transfer with Ipswitch File Transfer

Archive for June, 2010

Jun
30

Today Microsoft recognized Ipswitch as an “Independent Software Vendor” (ISV) in its Certified Partner Program.

Ipswitch was previously enrolled in the program with a security competency but was recognized today as an ISV after L10NBRIDGE provided third-party certification of WS_FTP Professional 12.2′s fitness under Microsoft Windows 7.

In addition to benefits Ipswitch already enjoys as a member of Microsoft’s Certified Partner Program, ISV status within that program provides Ipswitch with even more access to Microsoft technical expertise for initial design of products or deep-end debugging.

Jun
24

As part of our acquisition of MessageWay Solutions I had the chance to sit down and talk with Architect Bob Cheal.  One of the things I didn’t expect to hear over dinner was our common roots in technology from Burroughs, a key mainframe middleware player in the late 1980s and 1990s, and technology through which much early EDI traffic flowed.

Standard Networks, the company I was acquired into Ipswitch with, got its start developing front-end processors (FEPs) to handle heavy transaction loads to Unisys mainframes and its (often) banking applications.  MessageWay Solutions, our newest acquisition, also had FEP roots in the HP (aka Tandem) NonStop systems.  Both companies’ technical experience in those markets drew directly from Burroughs and its focus on high uptime, accuracy and throughput.

From there Standard Networks’ MOVEit brand specialized in data transmission security, working its way into Fortune 50 enterprise deployments by providing solid answers to security and regulatory challenges.  MessageWay Solutions specialized in high volume/high performance B2B communications and data translation supporting a wide array of data formats  in the banking, healthcare and supply chain markets, working its way into Fortune 50 enterprise deployments by providing solid answers to governance challenges around file lifecycle and performance challenges on open platforms.

With acquisitions of both companies now complete, Ipswitch now has a potent combination of technologies and high-volume, mission-critical experience whose institutional memory stretches back to the 1980′s and beyond.  As our product portfolio evolves, we will be combining these capabilities to provide new and innovative solutions to our existing customers and to the MFT market place, as well as accelerating the development of certain core components that will extend our existing product capabilities to meet the ever changing needs of our customers.

Stay tuned and in touch with your account representatives for more information on this front, or to find out how our recent acquisition of MessageWay can help address your EDI, transformation or multi-platform challenges today.

Jun
22

Ipswitch File Transfer is proud to announce the release of Ipswitch Sendable – a better way to send large and important files.  Sending files has never been so fast and easy, as Sendable’s entire user experience was designed from the ground up to be accessible yet powerful.

Sendable represents Ipswitch’s second foray into “Software as a Service” (SaaS) and combines the accumulated experience of self-service satisfaction through ecommerce sales of WS_FTP with infrastructure and people that have been online serving thousands of customers for over five years.   However, Sendable is truly something new in the Ipswitch portfolio: an web-based application that optimizes the experience for individuals who need to do something NOW.

Ipswitch is well aware that people will often do whatever they feel is right to send information to their partners, customers and comrades around the globe.   With the introduction of Sendable and Ipswitch’s other “ad hoc” solutions, Ipswitch now has the only product suite in the industry that allows sole proprietors, small businesses without an IT shop, one-person IT shops and departmental/divisional IT shops at the enterprise level to all deploy their choice of  SaaS or on-premises solution to meet their specific scope and implementation needs.

Please take the time to try out Sendable today or contact your account representative to continue the conversation.

Jun
22

Today the PCI Security Standards Council will announce that its three main publications will switch to a synchronized three year cycle.   There will still be a new PCI DSS coming out this October, but the next one will not come out until fall 2013.

This shows that the payment card industry, lately seen as a security leader in the financial space, is generally happy with its efforts to define what an appropriately secured and managed environment ought to be and expects future changes to come more slowly than they have in the past.

Jun
21

Over the weekend support manager Kevan Bard and his operations team successfully upgraded Ipswitch File Transfer’s MOVEit DMZ Hosted Services (that’s MOVEit DMZ software as a service) to version 7.0.  There were two highly-available setups one thousand files apart involved in the upgrade, and a significant banking customer on this infrastructure (with just over 500 users and 35GB online) was moved between data centers the same time.

The upgrade/migration of these systems and their thousands of active users was one of Ipswitch’s more complex operating challenges in recent years and was planned, tested, staged and executed with a high degree of success.  If your data deserves the white-glove treatment too, rest assured that the right people are in place to support your technology, whether on-premises or in one of our SaaS offerings.