Global File Exchange

Foster Faster Collaboration With Less Risk

Thru’s patent-pending Distributed Content Synchronization (DCS) technology automates global file exchange and makes it easier to manage without sacrificing data security. DCS helps you overcome the limitations of file sizes and time to foster faster collaboration and decision-making by:

• Synchronizing large files securely across wide area networks
• Bringing information closer to where it’s needed quickly
• Connecting business partner networks across the supply chain
• Replicating content across disparate repositories and file servers
• Enabling effective business continuity

Business Need

Communicating with dispersed customers, partners and suppliers is essential for global collaboration. Greater information risk comes along with increased sharing of intellectual property throughout the supply chain. Nonetheless, pressure is high to deliver sensitive files to anywhere in the world—between time zones—rapidly. Any delays can mean lost profit and sales opportunities. Balancing data protection with speed is difficult and often, very costly.

Email storage and security policies place restrictions on file types, message sizes and user inbox capacity. Users complain that they “didn’t get it”, waited as long as they could for a file to download or have reached their email storage limit. As an alternative for exchanging large files, users waste time reformatting or shrinking files, resort to FTP without any security or internal controls and incur higher distribution costs by shipping CD/DVD media and USB drives.

IT Challenge

Email and FTP servers contain insufficient security and tracking measures to transfer files over internet connections for global file exchange. Also, the overhead required to transfer large files across your wide area network and get information rapidly to remote users who need it can create a significant strain on network resources. To address these issues and prevent information leaks, you could deploy a host of email encryption, content filtering, managed file transfer and file repository tools.

The caveat is burdensome complexity: the mix of disparate tools requires multiple skill-sets, user training and additional time.

SOLUTION

Explore Thru Server and the Thru Secure Communication Network™ (SCN) brand of software-as-a-service to learn more about how DCS can increase user productivity, optimize network bandwidth and reduce risk.