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Does your organization continue to struggle with outmoded file transfer infrastructure?
Point solutions – often deployed over time to address urgent tactical problems, or accumulated through M&A activity – proliferate under the radar, ultimately resulting in significant cost, risk and exposure to the enterprise. This solution ‘sprawl’ can result in data loss, security breaches, SLA violations and loss of customer confidence. Faced with those challenges, more and more IT executives are looking to strategically consolidate their file transmission environments to regain control over this critical business function.
In only 20 minutes you can watch Frank Kenney’s webcast on File Transfer Consolidation and learn more about:
- Pitfalls of relying on multiple tactical solutions for internal and external file transfers, transformation, B2B and scripts
- Benefits of consolidating all the different ways that data flows in and out of your organization
- How to regain control of all file transfers — visibility into what is being sent is critical
- Tips on file transfer consolidation that will lower your overall IT costs and centrally enforce policies to assure security and compliance
On Wednesday, November 3 and Thursday, November 4, Ipswitch File Transfer will be exhibiting and speaking at SecureWorld Expo, the leading regional security conference that brings together the security leaders, experts, senior executives, and policy makers who are shaping the very face of security.
The “Exhibits and Open Sessions Registration” for SecureWorld Expo is complimentary and it gives you access to the expo floor, the keynote presentations, and open industry expert panels. Plus, you’ll get to hear the luncheon keynote from L. Frank Kenney, “The Data Breaches You Don’t See Hurt You The Most,” and the industry expert panel “Data Protection: Walking the Thin Line Between Employee Productivity and Security.”
Here are the details:
What: SecureWorld Expo – Dallas
Where: Plano Convention Centre, Plano, TX
When: November 3, 2010 and November 4, 2010
Why: Meet the Ipswitch File Transfer team, learn about our solutions (from WS_FTP to MessageWay), listen in on L. Frank Kenney’s luncheon keynote, and keep up to date on the latest in the security world!
Plus, if you visit us and mention this blog post, you’ll receive a Starbucks gift card – on the spot!
See you in Dallas!
Interested in learning more about the Managed File Transfer (MFT) market? Want to see how you can map file transfer projects to an MFT Maturity Model?
Join us for a look at the “State of the Industry” with Frank Kenney, former Research Director at Gartner and current VP of Global Strategy at Ipswitch.
During this live webcast, Frank will provide insights into the MFT market, including:
- Convergence of the B2B, EAI, and MFT markets
- Governance implications of sharing information
- Growing role of SaaS
- New opportunities for technology providers in the evolving MFT space
- Evolving vendor landscape amid recent acquisitions and market activity
“Every so often, you have to SYH (shake your head) at the acronyms created by technology companies”
Shane O’Neill, Publisher of CIO magazine and CIO.com
O’Neill has a great point. I remember back in my freelance days I was in some meetings where project managers would reach into a box of Alpha-Bits, grab a handful, toss them on the table and produce the newest acronyms for their latest projects.
Just the other day I was working on a post and came across an acronym I was unfamiliar with. I Googled it, I hit Wikipedia and eventually I figured it out, but it took me much longer than I thought it would take.
Who knew there would be so many definitions for three little letters?
O’Neill poses a lighthearted, but interesting question in his article “Ten Ridiculous New Tech Acronyms.” O’Neill asks if it is “any surprise that acronyms have taken over our lives? They fit perfectly in our fast-paced, multi-tasking society. Why say something in words if you can say it in letters?”
When you consider our industry, O’Neill says that the tech acronyms “can be inscrutable, unintentionally funny, accidentally crass, or just goofy. In total, they add up to a big steaming bowl of alphabet soup.”
Here’s an OMG look at some new LOL acronyms: “Ten Ridiculous New Tech Acronyms“
I’ve been asked at least a dozen times over the last month “What are the benefits of a cloud-based hosted subscription versus an on-premises software deployment?”.
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” ~ Hamlet
There are many benefits of going SaaS, just like there are benefits of deploying on-premises. It all comes down to the problems you are trying to solve, budgeting preferences, and IT resource availability and expertise. Here are some benefits of going the hosted route.
- Fast and easy deployment: SaaS solutions are often available instantly, providing an amazingly fast time-to-value. You don’t need to install any software/hardware yourself and there are no complicated firewall or security configurations to work through.
- Budgeting flexibility & lower up front cost: Hosted subscriptions are treated as an “operating expense” with no capital investment spent on software/hardware. Pay-as-you-go subscription plans often lead to quicker purchase decisions because there is no need to get CapEx budget sign-off.
- Less taxing on your IT resources: SaaS solutions require significantly less effort to deploy and maintain. There are no ongoing software upgrades, patches or backups for you to worry about, and no complex security/compliance configurations to be responsible for internally. Plus, there is no underlying infrastructure to assemble and maintain.
- Built-in scalability: The elasticity and high bandwidth of SaaS solutions easily handles spikes in usage and grows as organizational needs expand.
- Near perfect uptime: Hosted services are often run in a highly available, load-balanced, automatic failover configuration to ensure even the strictest network and application uptime requirements and SLAs are met.
I’d like to also quickly mention that we’ve had numerous customers initially deploy our MOVEit DMZ Hosted Service as a way to get their Managed File Transfer solution up and running quickly, while they continue to work towards an on-premises deployment.
The growth of SaaS can’t be denied…. The question is, whether ’tis SaaS right for your organization?
