Archive for January, 2011
Home Hardware uses MessageWay for MFT
Here’s a great story of how retail giant Home Hardware is using Ipswitch MessageWay solutions to efficiently manage, secure and share over 4 million business-critical files annually among its 1,000+ retailers. And best of all, MessageWay is saving Home Hardware money every single day!
Speed, automation and validation were among Home Hardware’s the key business requirements. They send over 75,000 essential business files per week (including vendor/product info, pricing and POS software updates, and order confirmations) and also need to reduce download times and validate orders.
Home Hardware is now able to:
- Move files faster – cutting transfer time from hours to minutes
- Automate and speed product orders and software updates
- Prevent lost orders do to file transfer glitches
- Tighten security around sensitive data transfers
- Accelerate time to revenue by expediting orders, payments and settlements
- Ensure compliance and accountability with full visibility into the file transfer process
Why Home Hardware selected MessageWay for Managed File Transfer:
“MessageWay is second-to-none, and our efficiency improved dramatically as soon as we implemented, ” said Brent Horst, Director of Corporate Applications at Home Hardware.
“MessageWay transformed the way we send and receive files. The speed, automation and reliability are the best we’ve seen. The most important features that Ipswitch MessageWay provides are the speed of file transfer, file validation and guaranteed delivery,” said Horst.
Got a great Ipswitch story of your own to tell? Email us at mystories@ipswitch.com…. We can’t wait to hear all about it!
During the past year, we shared news of our expanded partner program and new partner web portal, reinforcing our commitment to the channel.
Today, we’re very excited to share news that our suite of MOVEit solutions will now be made available for sale through North American distributor Tech Data.
“Adding MOVEit to their portfolio ensures that our partners will have a strategic offering to meet the evolving needs of their customers.” said Gary Shottes, president, Ipswitch File Transfer.
“Businesses of all sizes are looking to VARs to support their security and compliance needs, and Tech Data and Ipswitch are working together to ensure that VARs have access to the support they need to add the MOVEit solutions to their offerings.” said Stacy Nethercoat, vice president at Tech Data.
Our channel partners will continue to be a critical component of the Ipswitch File Transfer worldwide sales team, providing customers with advisory and consultative solutions. Please do visit our partner webpage to find a local Distributor or Reseller.
If your file transfer solution could look into the future and predict 3 things for you, what would they be?
To kick this off, here’s a list of predictive needs I often hear from customers:
1) Am I about to miss my service levels, and which ones are about to cost me the most?
2) If I grow X% next year or bring on body Y of new traffic, what do I need to plan for in terms of system capacity, staffing and related technology?
3) Can I test a new transmissions proposal as if the test items were really coming from real people during real transmissions windows…all without affecting production?
Would these be your top 3 predictors as well? We’d love to know either way.
Does it feel like you’re hearing about a new data breach almost every day?
Well guess what — you likely are. The Identity Theft Resource Center recorded 662 data breaches on its 2010 ITRC Breach List. That averages to over a dozen reported breaches per week…. And a whopping total of over 16,000,000 reported exposed records in 2010. The fact that social security numbers and/or credit card information is included in the majority of breaches just makes things even more alarming!
Denise Richardson lays out a solid argument for mandatory data breach reporting, as well as some key takeaways from the ITRC Breach List, including:
- Malicious attacks still account for more breaches than human error, with hacking at 17% and insider theft at 15%
- 39% of listed breaches did not identify the cause — Indicating a clear lack of transparency and full reporting to the public
- 49% of breaches did not list number of potentially exposed records — A clear sign of inaccuracy and incompleteness of reporting
- 62% of breaches reported exposure of Social Security Numbers
- 26% of breaches involved credit or debit cards
As I’ve blogged about before, I firmly believe that breached individuals have the right to timely notification. Delays are unacceptable, and hiding it is unthinkable. Afflicted people deserve quick notification so they can ensure their credit report isn’t showing strange activity and that their social security number isn’t being used to open new credit cards or being used to fraudulently report wages.
Mandatory disclosure would provide the structure, discipline and enforcement required for consistent and transparent breach information. Compliance would require a very high level of visibility and control of all files that enter, bounce around and exit an organization. This would benefit not only breached individuals, but also the organizations and their business partners.
