Data Transfer

In today’s data-driven enterprise, there is no limit to the type of information that is shared between employees, business partners and clients. A business manager must be able to share a training video with his or her new employee. A construction company must be able to share blueprints and specs with subcontractors. A photographer must be able to share wedding albums with the happy newlyweds.

In the same vein, in today’s data-driven enterprise, companies cannot be limited by the type of files or file sizes that they share with other parties. This is a problem often felt with traditional and old-fashioned data sharing platforms. Most email clients, for example, put limits on file sizes. Similarly, physical data storage devices like CDs and USB drives are limited by the amount of data they can hold. These options may be good in a pinch, but they tend to become tedious when moving a large number of files.

Many users turn to file transfer protocol (FTP) platforms, which remove size restrictions and provide a portal through which others can easily download files over the web. The problem is access is sometimes too easy, as the security of this tool is often lacking.

When it comes to large data migrations, perhaps the best tool available today is the cloud-based service from YouSendIt. A platform that supports up to 2GB of data in a single transfer, YouSendIt is robust enough to handle nearly any data transfer needs -- whether they be one massive file, such as a high-definition video, or thousands of smaller word-processing documents.

Data transfer solutions for YouSendIt

Companies cannot simply trust anyone to handle their most sensitive data. Proprietary information, for example, can be worth millions of dollars -- if not more -- which means businesses must be sure that their data is in the right hands.

This dilemma is compounded when data is in transit. Most enterprise-grade storage solutions provide some degree of security when data is at rest, but data that is moving from one server to another is in danger of being picked off by cybercriminals and their increasingly sophisticated attack methods.

With YouSendIt, this concern is greatly mitigated. YouSendIt offers 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer encryption with Class 3 certificates, ensuring that sensitive and valuable information remains safe no matter where it goes.

Additionally, file-level passwords and authenticated delivery lend further security when files are both on the move and at rest. The former provides security at the lowest level, protecting files with robust password requirements, while the latter ensures information is only read by authorized recipients once it reaches its destination.

Hard drive alternative

Any computer’s hard drive -- whether used for work or personal activities -- contains thousands of individual files. Toss in an external hard drive, and that number is likely to increase tenfold.

The problem is that most people don’t use just one computer anymore. In many cases, a person has a laptop at home, a desktop in the office and a tablet or smartphone for everywhere in between. They may also have documents and other files on their hard drives that they want to share with others -- a tricky task unless you want to go through an endless number of blank CDs.

YouSendIt, on the other hand, offers users a personal dropbox through which they can upload 2GB of files at a time. This provides a helpful and, these days, necessary flexibility in how you share files with others.

Whether sharing for business or just among friends, YouSendIt offers a robust solution to ensure files safely and quickly get where they need to go when they need to get there.