Organizations depend on the reliable movement of files, from batch integration, to the movement of large images or catalogs, to the synchronization with remote locations.
In this new era of rigorous security and shorter processing windows, IBM Sterling Connect:Direct is the point-to-point file transfer software optimized for high-volume, secure, assured delivery of files within and among enterprises. IBM Sterling Connect:Direct can deliver your files with
- Predictability - Assures delivery via automated scheduling, checkpoint restart, and automatic recovery/retry
- Security - Ensures that your customer information stays private, and that your file transfers are auditable for regulatory compliance via a proprietary protocol, authorization, and encryption (FIPS 140-2, and Common Criteria certified)
- Performance - Handles your most demanding loads, from high volumes of small files to multi-gigabyte files
- IBM Sterling Connect:Direct is available as licensed on premise software
Overcome your dependency on unreliable FTP and free up valuable IT resources
Features and benefits |
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Automation and Management |
- Supports 24x7 unattended operations
- Schedules jobs on a one-time, recurring, or continuous basis
- Assigns and manages file transfer workload
- Event driven alert notification
- Process language builds scripts to provide integration with back-end systems
- API and SDK for programmatic access by other applications
IBM® Sterling File Accelerator(128KB)
- Overcomes latency issues in TCP/IP protocol
- Increases transfer speed for large files over high speed networks by up to four times
- Built-in congestion control: Shares bandwidth with other business applications
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Assured File Delivery |
- Supports checkpoint restart
- Automatic recovery from network interruptions
- Automated alert notifications for success/failure
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Security and Compliance |
- Interfaces with operating system security for user authentication
- Provides a complete audit trail of data movement through extensive statistics logs
IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct® Secure Plus(125KB)
- User authentication
- X.509 certificates for authentication
- Data encryption (SSL/TLS)
- Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) checking
- FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria certification
IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct® FTP+(471KB)
- Adds Sterling Connect:Direct capabilities to existing FTP to provide assured delivery- automatic retry, compression, checkpoint/restart
- Authentication and data encryption with Sterling Connect:Direct Secure Plus, & utilizes the Sterling Connect:Direct protocol to improve security for existing FTP
- Audit and logging capabilities
- Server visibility through IBM Sterling Control Center
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Multiple Platform Support |
- Operating Systems Support
- z/OS
- OpenVMS
- i5/OS (OS/400)
- UNIX and Linux Network Protocols Support
- TCP/IP
- SNA
- UDT (UNIX 4.0, z/OS 4.8, Windows 4.5)
- Windows
- HP NonStop
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