Reviewer, Financial Services
After the security incident, we paused new deployments and our procurement team required additional security review. The upgrade process now requires more coordination than it used to.
Files.com vs. Progress MOVEit
Modern File Orchestration — Not A Windows App You Patch On Azure
Files.com is the cloud-native alternative to Progress MOVEit. 4,000+ companies run their file transfer on Files.com instead, including Equifax, Cognizant, Michelin, TowneBank, and Banner Health.
No pushy sales process
Every protocol included
SOC 2 Type II audited
Live in minutes
4,000 organizations rely on Files.com every day
Real companies. Real file flows. Real results.
MOVEit Is Built On 25-Year-Old Technology
MOVEit launched in 2002. It runs on Windows servers: Windows Server, IIS, .NET, and SQL Server. You install it, you patch it, you keep it running. The product was sold to Ipswitch in 2008 and to Progress in 2019, and the underlying technology hasn’t fundamentally changed.
“MOVEit Cloud” is the same Windows software, just running on Azure servers Progress operates instead of servers you operate. It’s the same code with a different host.
To do what Files.com does, you have to buy three separate Progress products: MOVEit Transfer for the protocol surface, MOVEit Automation for workflows, and ShareFile for human-to-human sharing. Three contracts, three license keys, three things to keep updated.
Files.com is one product, built for the cloud from day one. SFTP, FTP, FTPS, WebDAV, Automations, Inboxes, Share Links, the on-premise Agent, AS2, PGP, custom domain, and the REST API, all in one. We run it. You log in and use it.
Mary Kay replaced Progress MOVEit ahead of a data-center closure without pausing shipping — moving workflow by workflow while live Latin American carrier exchanges kept running.
In 2023, The MOVEit Breach Exposed More Than 90 Million Records
In May 2023, a ransomware gang called Cl0p found a security hole in MOVEit. Before Progress (MOVEit’s owner) could tell customers about it, the gang had already broken into more than 2,700 organizations and stolen data on more than 90 million people. The fallout: 240+ class-action lawsuits, consolidated into a single federal case.
A year later, another security hole was found. The day Progress announced it, working attack code was already circulating publicly. Every MOVEit customer had to drop everything and patch their servers, again.
The reason both breaches happened: every MOVEit customer runs the same Windows software on their own servers. When attackers find a way in, they have a list of thousands of targets to hit — all running the same product, all exposed at the same moment.
Files.com has operated for 15+ years without a single breach. Our platform doesn’t expose a per-customer server for attackers to find.
What Real MOVEit Customers Say About MOVEit
IT Manager, Healthcare
Upgrades are painful. They typically require a maintenance window and we engage professional services for major version changes because there's risk to in-flight transfers.
Reviewer, Mid-Market Enterprise
The cost is on the higher side compared to competitors offering similar functionality. The licensing for MOVEit Automation as a separate product adds to total cost.
Reviewer, Professional Services
The user interface looks dated and is not particularly intuitive for our business users who need to upload files. Our IT team handles most interactions because end users find it confusing.
Where Files.com Wins
One Product Unifies System-To-System And Human-To-Human Workflows
SFTP, Automations, Inboxes, Share Links, Online Editor, the Agent, AS2, REST API, in one license. To match it, MOVEit needs three separate products: Transfer, Automation, and ShareFile. Three license lines, three seams to stitch together.
Cloud-Native, Not Windows-On-Azure
Nothing to license, patch, or babysit on your side: no Windows Server, no IIS, no .NET 4.8, no SQL Server. MOVEit Cloud is the same Windows/.NET software as the on-prem version, just running on dedicated Azure VMs.
15+ Years Of Operation, Zero Breaches
MOVEit: two critical security holes in 13 months.
Published Pricing Transparency
Files.com publishes its prices. Progress doesn’t: every MOVEit quote goes through a reseller, split across Transfer, Automation, and Cloud products.
White-Glove Migration, Run By Us
Files.com’s US-based engineering team runs the migration end-to-end. User accounts, SFTP credentials, scheduled workflows, AS2 certificates, and SSO configuration all move with our team doing the work. As much onboarding as your migration requires, with no professional-services line items billed back to you.
#1 In Gartner Peer Insights For Managed File Transfer
#1 across every G2 attribute for the MFT category.
Customers Who Replaced MOVEit
Retail & Consumer
Spanx Replaced MOVEit With Files.com, One Partner Connection at a Time
Live SFTP and AS2 order channels had to move partner by partner because Spanx could not force every vendor and warehouse onto the same migration schedule.
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Retail & Consumer
Mary Kay Replaced Progress MOVEit Without Pausing Latin American Shipping
A workflow-by-workflow parallel run kept frequent carrier exchanges live while Files.com rebuilt transfers, automation, and access for cloud operations.
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Software & Technology
Alight Replaced Progress MOVEit’s Person-to-Person Transfer With Self-Service Client Exchange on Files.com
Custom domains, automatic identity provisioning, and centrally enforced policies let Alight remove its MFT team from every client exchange without weakening control.
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Retail & Consumer
Daniel's Jewelers Retired Progress MOVEit Mid-Migration and Tripled Outbound Connections
Files.com bridged on-premise systems and cloud storage so sensitive vendor workflows could move forward one flow at a time.
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One Platform To Replace Your Whole File Stack
Every capability legacy MFT licenses as a module, plus the ones it never had — on one platform, with published pricing.
Cloud SFTP, FTP & MFT Server
Dedicated, fully managed SFTP, FTP, and FTPS endpoints, with every protocol your partners already use. No servers to patch and no DMZ to maintain.Replaces IBM Sterling, GoAnywhere, MOVEit, Axway, AWS Transfer Family
See Cloud SFTP ServerFile Sharing & Collaboration
Branded portals, secure share links, and request inboxes, plus co-editing for Office documents. Partners and customers get access with no account and nothing to install.Replaces Box, Dropbox, ShareFile, Egnyte
See CollaborationFast File Transfer & Acceleration
Move files up to 5 TB at full speed over any distance, with chunked, resumable transfers on standard protocols and custom UDP acceleration in the Agent.Replaces IBM Aspera, Signiant
See Fast TransfersAutomation & Workflows
Trigger on a file arriving, a schedule, or an event, then route, convert, and notify, with retries and alerts built in. The reliable replacement for the scripts and cron jobs nobody wants to own.Replaces fragile custom scripts and cron jobs
See AutomationsData Transformation & Format Conversion
Reshape files inline as they move: convert formats and pull fields out of EDI, HL7, XML, JSON, and CSV, so downstream systems get exactly what they expect.Replaces hand-built parsing and conversion scripts
See Transform & ExtractDesktop Drive & File Server Replacement
Native apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android mount your cloud storage as a local drive, so you can retire aging file servers and NAS without changing how people work.Replaces NetApp, Nasuni, aging NAS, Windows file servers
See File Server ReplacementEvery capability runs on one platform — SOC 2 Type II certified, HIPAA BAA available, with a complete audit trail on every action.
Security And Compliance, Built In
Files.com has run for 15+ years with zero breaches. The controls your auditors ask about are standard here, not add-ons.
SOC 2 Type II
Independently audited, every year.
HIPAA & GDPR
BAA and DPA available, with EU and regional data residency.
Encrypted End To End
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 and 1.3 in transit.
SSO, SCIM & MFA
SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, MFA, and granular role-based access.
Complete Audit Trail
Every action logged immutably and streamed to your SIEM.
Annual Penetration Testing
Third-party tests across the whole platform.
Every Support Request Reaches A Senior Engineer
No Level 1 runaround, no script, no callback queue. When something breaks, you reach a seasoned file transfer expert who can actually fix it.
All-Engineer Support Desk
Talk to file transfer experts who understand how you work.
- Replies in under an hour
- Talk straight to engineers
- We watch for problems
- We own the escalation
Onboarding Services
A dedicated Customer Engineer and a step-by-step plan — most teams are live within five business days.
- Migration planning
- Help on go-live day
- Workflow tuning
- Training for your team
Resources & Training
Clear documentation, training materials, and how-to guides.
- API documentation
- Video tutorials
- How-to guides
- Yearly in-person customer events
“Files.com's strengths are simplicity, ease of use, and the cloud connectors. We don't have to invent custom infrastructure for every partner.”
Tommy Chapley
Senior Software Engineer, Equifax
“Files.com is versatile — it can manage many different situations from a single platform. We've consolidated multiple tools onto it.”
Regis Litre
Chief Information Officer, Rag & Bone
“Files.com is robust and scales to a large enterprise. We get multiple files per minute, per second — and we're a 24/7 organization, so everything has to always be up.”
Nelson Miranda
Sr. Systems Engineer, Spirit Airlines
Files.com Vs. MOVEit FAQ
What buyers ask most when comparing Files.com to MOVEit.
The Decision
Choose Files.com. One license covers Inboxes, Automations, Share Links, and the on-premise Agent, where MOVEit needs Transfer plus Automation plus ShareFile across three SKUs. And Files.com is cloud-native, so you’re never up at night patching a Windows server the day the next MOVEit CVE lands.
Move To Modern File Orchestration
4,000+ organizations run mission-critical file transfer on Files.com instead of MOVEit. Talk to our team or validate the technology on a free trial.
No pushy sales process