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Get 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.

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.

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 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. MOVEit

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. GoAnywhere

Migrate Off Axway

Bring the same partner exchange Axway runs today onto a managed, cloud-native platform, without the appliance footprint.

Files.com vs. Axway

Migrate 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. Sterling

Bring 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

Plan Your Switch Off Legacy MFT

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