Simplify Automated File Transfers

Automated file transfer solutions can be prohibitively expensive and unnecessarily complex, which adds additional hidden costs to manage. The total cost of ownership of legacy software includes expensive IT resources to keep software up-to-date and secure. Modern solutions should be easy to deploy, operate, use and include auto-updates and 24×7 monitoring.

“Free” transfer tools like rsync or scripted FTP can be configured for automated file transfer but come with hidden costs. They are IT admin intensive to configure, monitor and keep compliant. Old scripts become challenging to maintain and often create security risks. These tools lack acceleration and often require digging through log files or additional third-party software to monitor transfers or debug issues. They are far from free to operate.

In today’s diverse storage landscape, businesses need the ability to seamlessly connect to various storage options, across complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments, for automated file movement. Without storage-agnostic automated file transfer solutions, business connections become difficult and require additional tools to bridge the gap. This can increase costs and hamper operational efficiency and responsiveness to new business needs.

If constant manual adjustments and labor-intensive interventions are required, a file system isn’t truly automated. True automation goes beyond merely moving the files — it means automating operational tasks like job triggers, adjustable bandwidth allocation and scheduled transfers that are easy to set up and manage. This approach maximizes staff and operational hours, optimizes infrastructure utilization and manages bandwidth priorities effectively, ensuring robust performance and cost-effectiveness.

Many file transfer tools fail to scale alongside your business, struggling to handle increasing data volumes and user demands, which leads to performance bottlenecks. Tools without scale-out architecture lack the ability to automatically adjust resources as needed, resulting in frequent downtime, higher costs and the need for manual intervention. This disrupts continuous data movement, hampers availability and ultimately impedes business growth.

It’s already challenging to automate file movement between your own storage locations, but when you add a large partner ecosystem, the complexity grows exponentially. In media, companies need easy ways to automate content exchange between their own locations, the cloud and with partners. Having this all under one platform with centralized visibility and control is key to operating at scale.