MFT

PGP encryption locks a file so only the intended recipient can open it and can sign it so they can prove where it came from. Here is how PGP and GPG keys work, how PGP relates to GPG and OpenPGP, why partners mandate it on top of SFTP, and why the hard part is never the cipher.

EDI, electronic data interchange, is how businesses send purchase orders, invoices, ship notices, and remittances to each other machine to machine. What an EDI document looks like, how it travels over AS2, SFTP, and VANs, the common X12 transaction sets by industry, and where the work of running EDI actually goes.

A week to ship a patch sounds fast — until every customer has to install it by hand. That gap is patch latency, and it's the architectural flaw breaking legacy MFT. SaaS closes the window before attackers can use it: Files.com pushes security updates automatically, with nothing for you to patch.

FTP is still in production at almost every enterprise because partners and legacy systems speak it. The buyer's question is not what FTP is but where it still belongs, what it costs to keep running a server for it, and what a managed platform replaces: the server, the scripts, the audit gap, and the exposure of a protocol that sends credentials in the clear.

SFTP is the standard way two systems exchange files over an encrypted SSH connection. Here is what SFTP is, how it works, how it differs from FTP, and what running it on a modern platform looks like.

Most enterprises run a mix — some files in the cloud, some on a server in a specific data center, some in a colo for latency or residency. Here's how to pick the right deployment model and how Files.com runs across all three.

Most enterprise file-transfer automation runs on cron jobs and Python scripts that someone wrote five years ago. Here is how Files.com replaces that maintenance burden with declarative automations across Google Drive, Dropbox, AWS S3, Azure Blob, SFTP, and the rest of your storage layer — without giving up the audit trail or compliance posture.

Data is exploding — from about 2 zettabytes in 2010 to a projected 181 zettabytes in 2025, per IDC. Here is what that growth does to enterprise file management, and how IT teams keep moving, securing, and tracking files as the volume climbs.

An FTP server is the dedicated system that hosts files for remote upload and download over the File Transfer Protocol. Here is what an FTP server actually does, how the protocol works under the hood, and how modern platforms like Files.com replace the legacy single-host model with managed FTP that integrates cloud storage, automation, and compliance.