Migrate Off MOVEit
Moving off MOVEit is the most common switch we run. We phase it in alongside your current setup and cut over when you are ready.
Files.com vs. MOVEitGet Off Legacy MFT Without The Disaster
Move off MOVEit, Sterling, GoAnywhere, or Axway one workload at a time.
Switching Is The Scary Part
Almost nobody actually likes their legacy MFT. What stops them from leaving is the switch itself. Swapping the platform a business runs its files on is exactly the kind of change a team dreads: rip out a working system, and find out at go-live what broke.
The disruption risk is real, and anyone who has lived through a bad migration feels it in their gut. The question that matters is whether you can get off legacy MFT without a disaster.
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You Phase It In, You Don’t Rip It Out
You don’t have to move everything at once, and the migrations that go well never do. Files.com goes in alongside what you already run: it takes over one workload first, while the old systems stay exactly where they are. You prove Files.com in production on a single flow before anything gets retired.
One platform for the whole stack is the destination, not day one. The plan is one workload at a time, reversible at every step, with nothing torn out before its replacement has earned its place.
The plain FTP or SFTP server beside the MFT platform retires the same way, and Files.com carries its hostname, host key, and credentials across the move so no partner has to change a setting.
What The Move Actually Looks Like
No flag day, no weekend rip-out. The migration is a sequence you control, with the old system live the whole way through.
Run Side By Side
Files.com takes over one workload first, usually the most painful partner feed, while your existing platform keeps running everything else untouched.
Put The Agent On Your Legacy Server
Drop the Files.com Agent onto the same server that already hosts your legacy FTP or MFT. The files become reachable both ways at once, through the old product and through Files.com.
Cut Over One Workflow At A Time
Move workflows on your own schedule. One grocery wholesaler ran exactly this cutover, with the legacy path live until the last workflow moved.
Retire The Old Contract At Renewal
The legacy system goes away only after Files.com has proven itself in production. The replacement was happening all along; the renewal just makes it official.
Customers Who Made The Switch
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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Kyndryl Replaced IBM Testcase FTP and IBM Sterling File Gateway Without Rewriting Batch Jobs
A Kyndryl-owned hostname, fixed IP addresses, and one-for-one path mapping let established z/OS workflows keep running across tightly controlled client environments.
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Prometric Moved District Access From Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT to Files.com—Without a Coordinated Cutover
A parallel run let school districts begin using self-service portals while the incumbent kept the assessment flows underneath running.
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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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We Run The Migration With You
The migration is a real workstream, not a software download we wave goodbye to. Files.com forward deployed engineers handle partner migration, automation rebuilds, and cutover planning as part of the relationship, with no separate professional-services fee and no $500-an-hour consultant queue.
Most teams are moving their first workload in days, not months. Partner onboarding is self-service to the partner, so the manual key-exchange-and-configure project that legacy MFT makes you run for every connection largely goes away. Password hashes and SSH host keys import from the old system, so partners keep their existing credentials and pinned host keys through the cutover.
Smaller, single-team footprint? Most mid-market customers are fully live in five business days.
Get Off Your Legacy Platform
The move off every legacy vendor is the same: one workload at a time, reversible until you retire the old contract.
Migrate Off GoAnywhere
Replace the on-prem GoAnywhere appliance with a cloud-native platform, one workflow at a time, with nothing to patch.
Files.com vs. GoAnywhereMigrate Off Axway
Bring the same partner exchange Axway runs today onto a managed, cloud-native platform, without the appliance footprint.
Files.com vs. AxwayMigrate Off IBM Sterling
The biggest migrations are Sterling migrations. We run them as a phased, reversible project, not a rip-out, and our team does the work with you.
Files.com vs. SterlingBring Your Renewal Quote
Files.com publishes its pricing publicly, while the legacy vendors require a sales conversation for every quote. If you arrive with a competing quote in hand from Sterling, GoAnywhere, MOVEit, Axway, Globalscape, or OpenText, we will not be undersold.
The biggest cost in legacy MFT usually isn't the license anyway. It's the human time, the patching, and the partner-onboarding labor that the move retires along with the appliance.
Switching Questions
No. Files.com lands one workload at a time, alongside your existing MFT, with the legacy path live as a fallback. You cut over on your own schedule and retire the old contract only once the new platform has proven itself.
Yes. The de-risking move is to put the Files.com Agent on the same server that hosts your legacy FTP or MFT, so the files are reachable both ways at once. Until you have proven a workflow on Files.com, the legacy path is still there to fall back to.
Most teams move their first workload onto Files.com in days, not months. Full retirement of the legacy platform happens later, on your timeline, usually when the old contract comes up for renewal. Files.com runs the migration with you end to end.
Partner onboarding on Files.com is self-service to the partner: they reconnect through a branded portal and inbox with no manual key exchange on your side. Our team migrates the existing connections workflow by workflow, including AS2 and EDI feeds. Credentials survive the move: existing password hashes import directly (PBKDF2, MD5, SHA-family, and more), and your SFTP host keys import too, so the host key your partners have pinned never changes and nobody resets a password.
Files.com forward deployed engineers do, as part of the relationship. They handle partner migration, automation rebuilds, and cutover planning, with no separate professional-services SKU and no per-hour consultant queue to fund.
Files.com replaces IBM Sterling, GoAnywhere, MOVEit, Axway, Globalscape, OpenText, and other legacy MFT platforms. See how Files.com compares to MOVEit, GoAnywhere, Globalscape, Axway, and IBM Sterling, or contact our team about the rest.
Yes. Files.com will match or beat a competing quote when you are replacing legacy MFT: IBM Sterling, GoAnywhere, MOVEit, Axway, Globalscape, or OpenText. Bring the renewal quote and we will not be undersold.
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