Archive for January, 2011
January 26, 2011 at 10:09 am · Filed under Cloud Computing, Managed File Transfer, Managed Services, Risk Management
By Bill Buie
It’s no secret that 2011 is primed to be the ‘Year of the Cloud.’ If they haven’t already done so, organizations will be turning to private or public clouds to store and manage their sensitive business data. While the promise of greater efficiency, scalability, and overall cost savings are the key drivers behind greater cloud adoption, it’s well documented that businesses still have concerns around how they can securely access and transfer files in the cloud.
When it comes to managing sensitive data, protecting their confidential information is by far the top priority for businesses. GlobalSCAPE’s Managed Information Xchange (MIX) combines a managed file transfer service with world-class cloud infrastructure to enable organizations to safely manage confidential data and exchange files in the cloud. GlobalSCAPE’s tiered hosted and managed service provides many of the benefits companies hope to get from cloud computing, including reduced costs, increased productivity, and a higher level of security and compliance. Read the rest of this entry »
January 19, 2011 at 11:50 am · Filed under Compliance, Managed File Transfer, Managed Services, Secure Information Exchange, User Experience
By Todd Doerr
Designing new products is a collaborative effort that requires the ongoing exchange of ideas. With business partners located around the world, it’s usually unrealistic to regularly meet in person, cost prohibitive to mail project files back and forth, and difficult to ensure that a project stays on schedule. Finding ways to quickly and securely exchange files electronically plays a critical role in the success of a project.
Time to market is essential to any industry, particularly retail where meeting deadlines is paramount to their business success. Collaborating with several outside designers on go-to-market products, a global retailer sought to improve both the communications and the way it exchanged files on new apparel and accessory designs with its designers.
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January 11, 2011 at 12:41 pm · Filed under Managed File Transfer, Risk Management, Secure Information Exchange
By Todd Doerr
Today, physically transporting critical business files from one location to another is inefficient, time-consuming, and can increase the risk of losing or mishandling highly confidential customer information. Companies that regularly transfer large data files understand this, and subsequently, are taking steps to streamline the process.
For a leading global information services company, the transportation of sensitive customer files from their physical offices to the company’s closest data center created a lot of room for loss and misuse of their customers’ critical business information. Then, once the files were delivered to the company’s nearest colocation facility by either mail or truck, technicians had to open the files in a highly secure physical environment and upload the information to their mainframes. This tedious process was not only time-consuming, but also came at a high risk. This prompted a corporate mandate preventing the company from accepting any more physical media from its customers after a certain date.
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January 5, 2011 at 8:00 am · Filed under Customer Experience, Managed File Transfer, Sales Team
By Bill Buie
The ability to quickly, reliably and securely transfer digital files to customers and partners is critical to the success of any business operation. Unfortunately, managing and delivering large amounts of sensitive content across back-end systems remains an ongoing challenge for many organizations.
The need to improve the efficiency and security of digital transfers was never more apparent than for our customer, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. Any delays in sending critical photographic evidence from its on-site mobile laptop to the forensic lab not only caused significant problems in the Crime Scene Unit’s ability to do its job, but also it could make the difference between a criminal conviction and a cold case.
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