IBM QuickFile V1.0 delivers a software appliance for person-centric managed file transfer
IBM United States Software Announcement 212-481October 23, 2012
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IBM® QuickFile V1.0 is designed to help companies address the person-to-person file transfer challenge by offering real value to your business. QuickFile:
- Is simple to deploy, administer, and use, yet powerful in function
- Delivers securely managed file transfer that is consistent with corporate policies
- Delivers scalability designed to meet increasing file sizes and growing user communities
- Includes comprehensive visibility and governance across managed file transfer patterns
- Is enterprise ready for high availability and infrastructure extension
- Has customizable interfaces for extended use cases and application integration
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| Overview |
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IBM QuickFile V1.0, a highly secure new software appliance for the person-centric managed file transfer market, is designed to enable nontechnical business users to securely and reliably exchange files inside or outside their organization without software limits on file size. It is designed to be simple to install and use in a virtualized environment. A Web 2.0 user interface provides a simplified yet powerful user experience that allows business users to self-register and initiate file transfers without traditional IT support.
No longer constrained by email clients or basic web browser limitations, users are able to exchange very large files with visibility over their transfers. If file uploads or downloads are interrupted, transfers can be resumed at the point of failure, helping assure that precious time is not wasted. IBM QuickFile also gives IT comprehensive visibility over person-to-person file transfers by integrating with the central managing and monitoring tools that are part of the IBM Managed File Transfer suite.
Your investment in Managed File Transfer suite from IBM and person-centric capabilities are preserved and extended with the addition of IBM QuickFile. You are able to quickly deploy secure person-centric file transfer capabilities within a comprehensive Managed File Transfer solution, which includes the integration of enterprise systems and applications. This is accomplished with the confidence that these types of file transfers are no longer an isolated and unmanaged use case.
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| Key prerequisites |
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Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.
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| Planned availability date |
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October 31, 2012: Electronic availability
November 13, 2012: Media availability
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| Description |
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As business gets more social and mobile, people are becoming more central to key business processes, not just applications. Today, you need to share large media files, manufacturing design plans, medical images, legal documents, and other large files so you can collaborate with others inside and outside your organizations. You need to do this across mobile, tablet, and desktop platforms.
The primary way to share data is via file exchange, but as the number of content types has expanded and the size of those files has grown, the options to move them have narrowed. You run up against limits on email attachments, delays in physical media transfer (overnight delivery of DVDs or USB drives), and the security risk of public cloud-based solutions for consumers. FTP servers are difficult to set up and use, and present a major compliance challenge for IT. As a result, many organizations, departments, and individuals turn to niche solutions or consumer-grade offerings, which result in insecure, unmanaged person-to-person file transfers that risk exposing sensitive corporate data.
IT is looking for a new approach, one that offers the simplicity and ubiquity of consumer cloud services, and the security and governance that enterprise businesses require, but is also a well integrated component of a comprehensive managed file transfer infrastructure.
IBM Managed File Transfer enables enterprises to manage and control the critical information flows that run their dynamic business networks. Through seamless, reliable, and secure data delivery, you can help improve business performance, reduce IT complexity, support growth, and reduce your risk. Person-centric file transfers (sometimes referred to as ad hoc) represent those file exchanges where a nontechnical business user is at the center of the transfer. This includes person-to-person and person-to system exchanges. Internal and external participants must easily and securely send and receive files within the enterprise and outside (business to business) as part of an impromptu but completely governed and managed business workflow.
IBM QuickFile is designed to solve these challenges and so much more.
Capabilities include:
- Delivery as a secured software appliance that can be deployed in minutes in a virtualized environment
- Customized branding of user interfaces and email notifications for personalized corporate look and feel that suits your organization
- Native visibility over file transfer activity, as well as integrated support for person-centric visibility within a comprehensive IBM Managed File Transfer solution
- Multi-gigabyte file sizes with the ability to restart a transfer from the point of disruption
- A modern web based and simplified user experience including self-service on-boarding
- Integration with Active Directory and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to leverage existing security policies
- Robust security and encryption of file data
- An option to utilize a DMZ proxy for added network security
- High availability configurations for enterprise scalability
- Support for multiple browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome
- Simple yet powerful policy-based administration
- Integration with IBM Sterling Control Center for advanced centralized monitoring, governance and audit reporting
- Published APIs to enable integration to other enterprise applications
The option to deploy a DMZ proxy allows you to leverage the additional perimeter security that IBM Sterling Secure Proxy offers. Session break capabilities and authentication help ensure the security of your network and the proper identify of business users while protocol inspection protects against their noncompliant use. As a DMZ based proxy, Secure Proxy does not store any data in the DMZ which adds an additional layer of security to the data being transferred via IBM QuickFile.
IBM QuickFile and IBM Sterling Control Center extend the visibility that the person initiating a file transfer has over the process. IT personal are able to apply the same Managed File Transfer monitoring and governance over person-to-person file transfer activity that they do to system-centric or community-centric (B2B) file transfer activity. This allows IT the option to establish SLAs around person-to-person file transfers, capture and audit person-to-person file transfer activity, and raise alerts and notifications when the need arises.
For many industries, the ability to archive documents and data is critical to their business model. These files may have to be retained for years to accommodate potential legal e-Discovery requests. IBM QuickFile delivers out-of-the-box integration to IBM FileNet® content management system. Thru simple configuration settings, you can optionally deploy integration to FileNet , which then triggers an archive of every file transfer that flows thru QuickFile. You then have access to the capabilities of a enterprise content management system and can apply the same content management disciplines to files as they do to other important artifacts.
With IBM QuickFile, you are able to implement person-centric file transfer capabilities within your enterprise that are governed and managed in conjunction with other managed file transfers and are no longer treated as an isolated use case. This eliminates the need for business users to turn elsewhere, helps addresses concerns about the ownership and privacy of your data, and helps you establish a comprehensive managed file transfer architecture with a foundation for future growth.
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| Program number |
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Program VRM Program name number 5725-F81 1.0.0 IBM QuickFile
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information website
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| Technical information |
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
- Hardware capable of running VMware ESXi V5
- One 64-bit CPU, 4 GB RAM
- 1.6 GB plus disk space to store transferred files plus 20%
- Network interface card
For more detail on hardware requirements refer to
Software requirements
Server: VMware ESXi V5
Client
One of the following web browsers:
- Microsoft™ Internet 8.0, or later
- Google Chrome 13.0, or later
- Apple Safari 5.0.5, or later (Mac only)
- Mozilla FireFox 6.0, or later
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Packaging
IBM QuickFile V1.0 English PID: 5725-F81
Security, auditability, and control
IBM QuickFile uses the security and auditability features of the host software.
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
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Product information
Licensed function title Product group Product
category
IBM QuickFile Business QuickFile
Integration
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM QuickFile 5725-F81 Per Virtual
Server
IBM QuickFile 5725-F81 Per Authorized
User
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Passport Advantage program licenses
IBM QuickFile
Part description Part
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IBM QuickFile
IBM QuickFile Per Authorized User Annual SW S&S Rnwl E0F1ILL
IBM QuickFile Per Authorized User Initl FT Lic+S&S 12 D0UXRLL
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IBM QuickFile Per Authorized User Lic + SW S&S 12 Mo D0UX9LL
IBM QuickFile Per Authorized User SW S&S Reinstate 12 D0UXALL
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IBM QuickFile Per Authorized User Subsq FT Lic+S&S 12 E0F1PLL
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IBM QuickFile Per Virtual Server Annual SW S&S Rnwl E0F1NLL
IBM QuickFile Per Virtual Server Initl FT Lic+S&S 12 Mo D0UXSLL
IBM QuickFile Per Virtual Server Lic + SW S&S 12 Mo D0UXPLL
IBM QuickFile Per Virtual Server SW S&S Reinstate 12 Mo D0UXQLL
IBM QuickFile Per Virtual Server Subsq FT Lic+S&S 12 Mo E0F1QLL
Passport Advantage supply
Program name/description Part
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IBM QuickFile V1.0.0
IBM QuickFile VMware V1.0.0 Mass Market Product DVD B200REN
Media Pack English
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
IBM QuickFile V1.0.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs description Part
offerings description number
IBM QuickFile per IBM QuickFile VMware B200REN
Authorized User V1.0.0 Mass Market Product
DVD Media Pack English
IBM QuickFile per Virtual IBM QuickFile VMware B200REN
Server V1.0.0 Mass Market Product
DVD Media Pack English
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