It only mentions the secure transfer in headings. All of the complaints it addresses are towards non encryption based transfer methodology. I agree that the linked IBM document is a sales whitepaper and not an independent source. In the increasingly hostile cyber environment 2019 the advocating of secure methods of transferring data as opposed to insecure methods seems actually quite natural ,well at least to me. and as of writing the referenced links to gartner are still inaccessible (3 years after AngelSL reported it). It also seems to quote biased sources (that's fine) but then has all of its content based on those sources, stating things like "As more and more companies decide that FTP is inappropriate for secure file transfer".Īlso, reference 1 and 3 link to the same page, and references 1 to 3 all come from Gartner (and are all inaccessible at time of writing this). This article seems to read as an article outlining the benefits of Managed file transfer compared to FTP nearly every section begins with a comparison between MFT and FTP, or with a description of FTP that usually ends with its shortcomings. Grumble ( talk) 18:53, 22 March 2011 (UTC) POV check There's a lot more that could be improved here, but for now I'd flag this article as being of poor quality. (Note that this may be changing after the next round of FTP IETF drafts.) Instead, this should talk about the other features listed above and why those are so critical to an MFT solution. The "Background" section is all about the FTP protocol and why MFT solutions usually use something else. (If we're going to have a mascot, let's pick something prettier.) Instead, MFT solutions are typically purchased by project teams that comprise a variety of lines of business, IT management, security management and other functions.Ĭ:D is a poor example of MFT it's one of the oldest and least liked solutions in the entire industry. They are rarely sold even to individual IT administrators. MFT solutions are NOT for sale to "individual consumers".
The reason the term "managed file transfer" exists is because a Gartner analyst named Frank Kenney put a label in the mid-2000's on a fast-growing market space where $10-50K products like MOVEit, Globalscape's EFT and Tumbleweed were already competing. This article is near gibberish in its current form. Radiantmatrix ( talk) 21:11, 1 December 2009 (UTC) I removed it (anyone can) I happen to agree that enough edits have been made that it's not "ad-ish" anymore. Can whoever posted the notice that the entry reads too much like an advertisement please review again? If the judgement remains the same, can I get some advice on what to cut / change that would help? I reasearched the topic fully and only included info that reflects general concensus out there in analyst land.Įlmorgan ( talk) 19:00, 22 October 2008 (UTC)