Ipswitch’s WS_FTP Professional And WS_FTP Home Support Microsoft Windows 7

Ipswitch File Transfer division, a developer of comprehensive secure and managed file transfer solutions, today announced the launch of WS_FTP Professional and WS_FTP Home version 12.2, which supports Microsoft Windows 7 operating system in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes.

The release of WS_FTP Professional 12.2 and WS_FTP Home 12.2 also include:

* Improved Interface: Several usability improvements have been made to the user interface, including new toolbar icons; customizable display options that apply evenly to all visible controls; and availability of the licensing application in the German language.
* Enhanced SSL Performance: SSL sessions can now be reused, resulting in improved interoperability and resource efficiency.
* Ensured Security: Now digitally signed by Ipswitch, enabling users and organizations to ensure the validity, integrity, and safety of their desktop applications.

In conjunction with the release of Windows 7, Ipswitch File Transfer is proud to announce that it is a Microsoft Certified Partner due to its expertise in working with Microsoft technologies. “We have ten Microsoft-certified individuals on staff and most hold multiple certifications,” said Jonathan Lampe, vice president, R&D. “Our status allows us to get earlier access to Microsoft software and more training so we can focus on building security solutions to protect a customer’s information assets related to security policy management, governance, compliance and operations,” said Lampe.

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Ipswitch File Transfer Division Introduces New Partner Program

Ipswitch File Transfer division, a developer of comprehensive secure and managed file transfer solutions WS_FTP and MOVEit, today announced the release of the new global Partner Program and web portal. This program will help partners increase revenue, add a high-margin product to their portfolio, and reach a new and wider range of customers.

“We’ve always valued the importance of the channel. Now with WS_FTP Server offerings evolving and market opportunity growing, we see this as the perfect time to release this new program and tools providing our customers with added value,” said Loic Triger, vice president, Global Channel. “The new Partner Program offers the tools, resources and incentives to entice new resellers to join our program and rewards them for their efforts in addition to enabling and rewarding the efforts of our existing partners,” said Triger.

With more than 40 million global customers, Ipswitch plans to support its rapid growth with enhanced partner benefits and incentives, including:

* Additional discounts for new WS_FTP license sales
* 24 x7 access to FT Partner Portal for all WS_FTP product collateral, marketing tools, sales tools, and program information
* Sales certification program to increase sales and support expertise
* Effective sales and marketing tools including hosted evaluation links for partners’ websites
* Complimentary not-for-resale software valued at $4,995 US for internal use on a 3-12 month period dependent on the partner’s level

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IT Constraints, Virtual Environments Demand Hosted Services

Ipswitch File Transfer division, a developer of comprehensive secure and managed file transfer solutions, today introduces MOVEit DMZ Hosted Services to provide a Software as a Service (SaaS)-based managed file transfer solution.

“In this economy, it’s increasingly common for companies to invest less in the physical infrastructure or IT staff it takes to administer and maintain on-premises software, such as a secure managed file transfer solution,” said Jonathan Lampe, vice president, Research & Development. “The answer: create a simulated IT department using cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS, and hosted services,” said Lampe.

MOVEit DMZ Hosted Services offers both shared and dedicated hosted subscription plans, providing:

* Flexibility in budgeting and lower up-front costs
* Deployment in a matter of hours; IT administrators never have to touch the software
* Less taxing on IT resources with no underlying infrastructure to assemble or maintain
* 100% network uptime keeps infrastructure up and running, worry-free
* State of the art secure data facility that’s SaaS 70 type II and PCI DSS compliant

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Ipswitch Positioned as a "Leader" in Leading Industry Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant

Ipswitch, Inc. File Transfer division, a developer of comprehensive secure and managed file transfer solutions, has announced it's placement as a "Leader" in the "Magic Quadrant for Managed File Transfer" report authored by Gartner Inc's Research Director, L. Frank Kenney.

In its report, Gartner states, "Companies should consider managed file transfer (MFT) suite vendors that meet short-term tactical and long-term strategic needs. It's all too easy to react too quickly and procure and deploy technology that supports only one protocol or security standard. It's much more prudent to deploy a product that can be easily expanded and upgraded to handle multiple protocols and multiple standards in a governed way that is fully auditable."

"We believe this year's placement in the Leaders Quadrant has been a great validation behind our continued ability to provide solutions that offer the highest levels of security, governance and flexibility on the market," said Gary Shottes, president, Ipswitch File Transfer division. "Our managed file transfer solutions deliver mission-critical encrypted transfer and storage of enterprise-class files and data while enabling compliance with corporate, industry, and government regulations," said Shottes.

Additional information can be found in the "Evolution of Managed File Transfer" webcast featuring Gartner Research Director, L. Frank Kenney and Ipswitch File Transfer Vice President of Research and Development Jonathan Lampe, CISSP. In the webcast you'll learn about:

* The roles of Security, Governance and Compliance in an MFT solution
* Best practices to look for when evaluating and managing an MFT solution
* The biggest problems to solve before deploying an MFT solution

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One Third of Businesses Failing to Protect Sensitive Data Transfers

Research just released by Computerlinks, a UK distributor of IT security and internet technology products, shows that a sizeable number of businesses are failing to protect their most sensitive data.

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Product Spotlight: File Transfers with WS_FTP Professional

WS_FTP Professional is an extremely full featured FTP client. It supports a wide range of connections, has a UI that is well designed, and supports a wide variety of scripting and other automation options. If there is something you want to do with FTP operations, WS_FTP Professional can probably do it.

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File Transfer is Not What it Used to Be

Ipswitch, Inc. File Transfer division, the leading developer of secure and managed file transfer solutions, today announced it's sponsorship of a new benchmark report called File Transfer is Not What it Used to Be: It's Secure, Reliable and Well-Managed, published by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE:HHS). This report explains why the time has come for file transfer to come out of the basement and gain recognition for what it is: as a mission-critical, enterprise-class application.

"Managing the surprising degree of complexity that can be involved in the simple notion of transferring files from point A to point B cannot be the best allocation of any organization's limited IT resources, or end-user time and effort," said Derek E. Brink, vice president and research fellow for IT Security, Aberdeen Group. "Aberdeen's research has shown that persisting in the digital do-it-yourself approach to file transfer is not secure, not convenient, not compliant, and definitely not 'free.'"

1. Five key findings from the research: Best-in-Class companies experienced 10 times fewer data loss or data exposure incidents in the past 12 months compared to Laggards.
2. Based on an average cost per security incident of $640,000 Best-in-Class companies avoided more than $6M in expenses in the last 12 months compared to Laggard organizations.
3. Best-in-Class companies save $150,000 in net present value for every full-time equivalent help desk staff assigned primarily to file transfer-related issues.
4. On an annualized basis Best-in-Class companies reduced simple human error (e.g., policy violations) related to file transfer by 6.5% compared to Laggards.
5. In comparison to Laggards, Best-in-Class companies reduced the number of audit deficiencies related to file transfer by 6.3% over the past 12 months.

Today’s file transfer solutions have quietly transformed themselves into full-featured, enterprise-class solutions that enable secure, reliable and well-managed webs of critical connections for person-to-person collaboration and process-to-process integration. As a prime example of the modern "plumbing" that enables collaboration and integrates business processes, secure and managed file transfer solutions have specifically been designed to liberate overburdened administrators and end-users from the cost and complexity of managing file transfers in the typical heterogeneous IT computing infrastructure. Secure, managed file transfer also addresses many of the security and cost shortcomings of physical "copy and carry" delivery mechanisms and legacy "digital do-it-yourself" file transfer approaches.

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