MoveIT Cloud

Ipswitch offers businesses grappling with the thorny issue of how to securely transfer large files with an easy-to-use secure email platform, MOVEit Cloud. Employees can share files securely amongst themselves as well as with authorized individuals outside the organization.

Think about it: when your employees need to share files with colleagues, contractors, partners, and customers, what do they do? Odds are they are either just emailing the files to each other or using consumer-focused cloud services such as Dropbox and Box.net. This means that you, as IT, have a difficult time tracking who has access to which file, where these files are winding up, and whether sensitive information is protected. For companies in regulated industries, this becomes a bigger headache because IT has no control over how data is shared within and outside the organization, nor does it know if the information is encrypted before leaving the network.

MOVEit Cloud from Ipswitch is a secure, cloud-based file service that helps IT control how documents are passed around, without over-complicating the interface for the end-users. It is very similar to AppRiver's CipherPost Pro but has better folder management.

From the end-user perspective, MOVEit Cloud is intuitive to use because the Web interface is just like a Webmail client, and there is an Outlook plugin, which means they don't even have to leave the familiar interface. Users don't have to install complicated tools or jump through a series of steps to properly encrypt the file before sending it; MOVEit Cloud automatically takes care of that.

IT teams will like MOVEit Cloud because it provides a detailed view on who transferred what files when, as well as define certain rules on what can be done with the documents, such as restricting forwarding and automatically deleting the files after they are read.

MOVEit Portfolio
Ipwsitch offers two main modules in its MOVEit suite: Ad Hoc Transfer and File Transfer. File Transfer handles cases when files and data are shared between servers, systems, and applications, or when groups need to access a common shared folder. Ad Hoc Transfer, also available as a stand-alone module, refers to situations when an employee has to send files and messages to another individual or group.

These two modules are available in two deployment packages, MOVEit DMZ, which refers to the on-premise version, and MOVEit Cloud, the hosted version. This review focuses on MOVEit Cloud and the Ad Hoc Transfer module, in particular.

At a little over $23 a month, the platform is very affordable. However, MOVEit Cloud is not intended for the smallest business, as there is a minimum 25-user investment, which comes out to $3,600 a year, or just $12 per user per month. Final pricing depends on the actual number of users, and it can go as low as $5 per user per month, according to Ipswitch.

Getting Started
To begin, Ipswitch created a MOVEit Cloud account and the accompanying environment, branding it with the PCMag logo. The fact that it can be customized to look like the company's internal portal indicates this is the "official" platform, as opposed to a random service employees may be using.

I also received a username and password for accessing the support portal, which contains detailed manuals and reams of documentation. The password requirements for the support portal are pretty stringent as even a 12-character string with upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols, was not considered strong enough. I finally managed to change to a password that was 21-characters long with a mix of upper and lower case letters and numbers.

The administrator has full control over the system, managing users who have access to the system, storage and bandwidth limitations, and deciding whether messages could ever be saved locally. The administrator can see all the files that have been ever uploaded, by whom, and who has sent that file or viewed it. I could generate in-depth reports based on this information.

MOVEit Users
When I logged in for the first time, I was prompted to download the upload/download wizard, which requires Java to run. The tool speeds up getting the files up for transfer, handles multiple file transfers, performs automatic integrity checking, and handles files larger than 2GB in size?Next: MOVEit Cloud Administrator, User Interfaces

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