Join Proginet’s President and CEO, Sandy Weil, in a new ‘At The Whiteboard session’… learn how Slingshot 1.6 new features help solves the major e-mail attachment challenges facing businesses today.
Slingshot is an e-mail attachment management solution that solves the major delivery, storage, and bandwidth challenges of e-mail attachments. The solution is also available as Slingshot Vault, a hardware-based appliance offering full archiving capabilities.
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I’ve written on the subject of encryption here in the past and how states like Nevada and Massachusetts are enacting strict data privacy laws that call for better overall security of client data. Gartner analyst Frank Kenney weighed in to say that “…it’s not just about encrypting the information, it’s about being able to rapidly produce evidence that you in fact followed the letter of the law.”
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Tags: credit card, data breach, data security, encryption, Frank Kenney, FTP replacement, managed file transfer, Massachusetts, Nevada
Just this week, I completed an article on securing data movement on the mainframe. I worked on it with our CIO, Kevin Bohan. As I was writing the article, I had a completely coincidental telephone conversation with a family member who is an IT Manager at a big European bank. I asked her what she was working on these days and she told me she was transitioning some business units to IBM’s MQ series for the mainframe. She told me how this represented a bit of a learning curve, as previously, they’d used mostly FTP to get data in and out of the mainframe.
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Tags: electronic data transfer, encryption, enterprise, enterprise software, managed file transfer
“File transfer multicasting.” That’s how Proginet’s President and CEO, Sandy Weil, describes CFI with RocketStream, the Company’s innovative new solution for accelerated managed file transfer. CFI with RocketStream turbocharges global file transfers – delivering files up to 30 times faster than FTP and commercially available file transfer applications. CFI with RocketStream achieves these speeds by defeating network latency; global organizations transferring large files over high-latency pipes and long distances will yield maximum benefits.
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Tags: acceleration, cfi, internet server, managed file transfer, platform server, proginet, rocketstream, sandy weil
I have been in the managed file transfer space now for almost 20 years. One of the most common and recurring misconceptions I see among file transfer users is that file transfer is file transfer. This is not actually the case.
Standards based file transfer protocols such as FTP and FTPS are good for certain types of transactions but miss a key capability required for mission critical business functions. That capability is guaranteed delivery.
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Tags: checkpoint restart, data validation, electronic data transfer, enterprise software, guaranteed delivery, managed file transfer, recoverable work queue
I remember Earth Day in 1990. There was a one page ad taken out in The New York Times that Sunday by a prominent upscale department store. It was about the importance of reusing, recycling and conserving. For some reason, I never forgot that ad. It stuck with me. It resonated. There was something quite powerful in the messaging that seemed quite simple.
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Tags: conservation, Earth Day, electronic data transfer, environment, recycle
In my role as CIO at Proginet I get involved in many of our customer deployments. Recently I have seen a trend in the Banking industry that has caused more and more banks and financial institutions to reassess what they are currently using for file transfer. Let me first set the scene. The volume of file transfers have increased on a daily basis over the past several years because of technology advancements in all aspects of the banking industry. For example, check processing used to be a combination of paper and electronic process. With the Check 21 Act now images of the checks are created when the check is first received and these images must be shared with a number of parties to process the check. The result is that the size and volume of files has increased significantly.
Continue reading ‘The Check 21 Act, and Managed File Transfer’
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Tags: bank, banking, check 21 act, checks, credit card, file size, file transfer, financial, financial institution, managed file transfer
The Rottweilers of Data Security
The State of Nevada has now put into effect the nation’s first data encryption law, which prohibits businesses from electronically transferring customers’ personal data outside their organization unless it is encrypted.
This brought to mind a conversation I had recently with one of our enterprise customers in the financial services industry. He was describing their deployment of our managed file transfer technology throughout their corporate systems and in the main data centers. He referred to his data security staff as being “like the Rottweilers of the world” in their insistence that everything – even data moving between internal systems – must be encrypted.
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Tags: card, credit card, data, electronic data, encryption, enterprise, financial
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