Nov 2014 webinar Making The Transition From Ftp

Webinar: Accelerated File Transfers -> Making the transition from FTP

November 25, 2014

Why should I watch this webinar?

• Current FTP / FTPS / SFTP end users and server admins

• Transferring files larger then 500MB

• Receiving or sending files to overseas or international locations

• Available Bandwidth is greater then 10Mbps

• File delivery contracts or SLA’s require a guaranteed and timely delivery of files

• Transferring multiple versions of the same file (File Deltas)

• Moving data to a disaster recover site

• Working with growing files. The file to be transferred is locked and increasing in size.

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Corporate Overview

What we do?

• Provide Enterprise Grade Software solutions for moving large data around the world

• Patent pending accelerated file transfers via our unique UDP based approach

• Simplify complicated large file transfers for the enterprise end user.

• Provide all the tools for fast integration into existing enterprise infrastructure

• Provide all the management, security and monitoring tools required to move large data across corporate networks

• Provide integration solutions with all major cloud vendors, including, Amazon, OpenStack and Windows Azure


FileCatalyst – Why so fast?

Why are you so fast?


TCP Overview

• Designed in the 70’s

• Provides reliability, error checking, ordered packets in a stream

• Congestion control built in

• Internet could not survive without it

• Works well for most internet traffic, email, web browsing small ad-hoc transfers (HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SMTP etc)


File Transfer Issues with TCP

• Flow control limits transmission window, causes dead air with high latency

• Very aggressive in response to network congestion, cannot tune in application layer

• Result is less than ideal performance on wireless, satellite, or long haul links

• Can be tuned but still not ideal for many-one, one-many


TCP is a very serial process. Each packet of data must be received before a new packet is sent = Decreased transfer speed

Source FileDestination

File

Acknowledgments

Data Packet

More Efficient Transport Protocol

FileCatalyst transfers files at full link speed:

• UDP with proprietary retransmission and congestion control

• Patent pending algorithm built from the ground up in-house

• Transfer rates up to 10 Gbps (with encryption) using commodity hardware

• Not affected by latency and speed degrades, linearly with packet loss

• Ability to fully leverage multi-core CPU architecture


Acceleration with FileCatalyst

• Ideal for bulk file transfer• Predictable - Can send at a perfect rate• Not affected by latency or packet loss• Congestion Control implemented in application layer• Tunable congestion control aggression• Instantly detect link capacity


Source FileDestination

File

Acknowledgments

FileCatalyst completely saturates the pipe by sending multiple blocks of data = Increased transfer speed


*NA = North America

Bandwidth Improvement with FileCatalyst

Accelerating File Transfers

FileCatalyst Direct Typical Deployment


Features to help with transition

Migration tools from FTP

• FileCatalyst also doubles as FTP, FTPS and SFTP server

• LDAP, Active Directory Integration

• Virtual Folders

• FileCatalyst Express client app feels and looks like an FTP client

• Scripting via command line client


Demo of FileCatalyst Server and HotFolder

UDP File Transfer Considerations

• Plays fair with other traffic on network

• 10 Gbps file transfer, single stream. Found by independent study to be only solution to maintain 10 Gbps with high latency and packet loss.

• High performance for many small files

• Security, reliability, automatic resume

• Automation tools, SDK, web integration, central management


The FileCatalyst Other Products


Web-based file transfer portal (no client-side software required)• File Submission• Sending Files to Email Address• Web accessible folders


• A web application providing an overview of a user’s entire FileCatalyst deployment

• View ongoing transfers in real-time, dig into transaction histories, and check or clear alarms

• Inspect connected nodes and remotely control FileCatalyst Server and FileCatalyst HotFolder instances from one central management console




Our Clients


Questions?