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Axway Positioned in Leaders Quadrant

Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Managed File Transfer“by L. Frank Kenney, 18 September 2009

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Simplest way: Email?

sender

recipient

Mail Server

MS Outlook

send message

TOO BIG

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How long to know the failed delivery?

How to make sure Recipient got the files?

What’s next? Increase email size? Find a FTP server? Burn a CD/DVD and

courier?

Clients/Partners’ Network

Can’t Control Email Size limit of recipients’ email server


Tools for Sending Large Files

Email

• Size limits• Store issues

FTP

• Security• Administrative Nightmare• File archiving

Cloud based Storage

• Privacy of content• Control over content• Access to content

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Axway File Transfer Direct:A Better Way

Security

• 2-tier Deployment• File Integrity

Checking• Encrypted

Transmission Channel

Ease of Use

• Email like experience

• Ease of User Administration

• Pause and continue Uploading

Visibility

• Ensure File Delivery

• Easy File Transfer Tracking

• Usage Report

Axway File Transfer Direct

How FTDirect Works?

SenderFT Direct (Internal)

Mail ServerUser composes message with

large attachment

1a. Attachment sentto FT Direct

4. Notification sent back to user

1b. Message with attachment URL sent to mail server

Recipient

2. Message sent torecipient

3. Recipient gets the attachments via FTD web

Secure Relay (DMZ)

File Integrity Checking

CASE STUDY


Knott Group

• Founded 1937 in Germany.• No. 1 Worldwide Custom-tailered Braking Solutions• No. 2 Europe Manufacturer of Trailer Components• Over 1,400 employees Worldwide• Annual Revenue: £181M (2007)


What is the problem of Knott Group ?


Time-consuming on Sending

large CAD files

Compliance with security rules

Pressure and cost on late

design delivery penalty

IT administration burden

How FTDirect helps?


Ensures secure and easy ad

hoc file transfer

Secure, Reliable and

Stable solution

Guaranteed secure delivery

of drawings

Lowered administration

costs

EASE OF USE & ADMINISTRATIONLarge File Transfer

Self-Registration

• For New External users


Receive Email with attachment link

Register Account on FTD Portal

Login to FTD Portal

Receive the File from FTD Portal

No administration work needed

Integrated with LDAP/AD

• For Internal users


VISUALIZE YOUR FILE TRANSFERSLarge File Transfer

Download History (Outlook Add-in)

• Outlook add-in – Email like usage and File download Record

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Download History (Web UI)

• From the Web UI, all file upload/download history was shown clearly

SECURITY IMPROVEMENTLarge File Transfer


Never Access Sensitive Data from Public Directly!!!

Is your solution safe?

Any problem?

2-tier deployment

• Avoid external users to access internal server data (files) directly

• Protect the backend FTD server from DDOS

Ensure File Delivery(integrity checking & download

receipt)

Ease of use(email-like & check-point

restart)

Ease of Administration(integrated with LDAP/AD &

self-registration)

Security Design(2-tier deployment)


Key Features of FTDirect

OTHER BENEFITS

Scalability / High Availability

• Save Disk Space – Save only one copy for ever attachment sent

• Scalability– multiple instances on multiple machines

• Keep a good level of performance when load increase

– All instances run in parallel (active/active)

• High Availability– Product works in active/active mode– Infrastructure required to provide true high availability

• External database must be highly available (Oracle RAC)• External shared file system must be highly available (SAN / NAS)


FTD 2.0 Server architecture

Load Balancer

LDAP

Shared

Data*

SMTP

Server

Axway License

FNO

Operating Node 3

Operating Node 2

Operating Node 1

Node Executive

Control

Node

(singleton)

License

manager

Data

Node

MySQL

FTDirect Server

LotusNotes

Client 2

FTDirect

Plug-In

External

data*

Client 1

Webtop

Web browserOutlook

FTDirect

Add-In

Client 3



System Requirements• External Databases (For software version)

• MySql 5.1• Oracle 11gR2 (including RAC support)

• LDAP Integration• ActiveDirectory 2003 & 2008• OpenLDAP 2.4.23

• Mail servers• Exchange 2010• Domino 8.5

• Secure Relay (in DMZ)• Windows server 2003/2008 platform, or• Linux platform

• Load balancers (For HA Clustering, optional)• Software: HA proxy• Hardware: F5

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