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.
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.
RVO Health, the largest digital-health platform in the U.S., retired Progress MOVEit for Files.com — doubling session capacity, cutting login-related support tickets about 50%, and meeting HIPAA and SOX audits without separate tooling.
RVO Health
In 2023, The MOVEit Breach Exposed 93 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 roughly 93 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 publicly disclosed breach. Our platform doesn’t expose a per-customer server for attackers to find.
“Our previous solution was on-prem, so we had to allow a third-party vendor onto the entirety of our network. What’s great with Files.com is that this isn’t the case. Everything is being handled at the cloud-based level, whether it’s inbound or outbound on our network.”
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/FTP, Automations, Inboxes, Share Links, Online Editor, the Agent, AS2, REST API — one license. To match it, MOVEit needs three separate products: Transfer, Automation, and ShareFile — three license lines and 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 Publicly Disclosed 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 — not as 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.
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 it’s 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