nuBridges Partners with Accellion for Secure File Transfers

Published: June 9, 2008

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in the old days of computing, before there was Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, HIPAA, and similar regulations that compel companies in various industries or of various persuasions (SOX is about being public) to comply with those regulations that restrict access to systems, files, and data, it was no big deal if system administrators, programmers, and even end users had FTP access to systems. Those days are gone.

And that is why Accellion, a security appliance company that was founded in 1999 in Palo Alto, California, has created a set of eponymous appliances that seek to get employees out of the habit of using FTP to move files around or sending data to each other via email and instead use the Accellion appliance, which has an auditable, encrypted, bi-directional file transfer capability using Web browsers to access the appliance and initiate transfers. The Accellion appliances start at around $5,000 a pop for a base number of end users, and have plug-ins for Outlook and Domino mail clients so files sent between end users over email can be subjected to the same audit trail and encryption; the appliance also links into LDAP and ActiveDirectory file systems on the network so it can be seen as just another device, and end users can send and receive files that are up to 20 GB in size.

The Secure File Transfer Appliance, as it is formally called, looked like a pretty good idea to nuBridges, a security software specialist with deep ties to the System i community that is branching out to support other platforms these days, and to that end, nuBridges announced last week that it has entered in a reseller arrangement with Accellion.

"Many of our customers need to send 10 megabyte or larger files and prefer to give their end users the familiarity of an email experience," explained Kim Addington, chief marketing officer at nuBridges. "By partnering with Accellion, we can provide enterprises with the broadest set of file transfer options from a single vendor--both scheduled Secure File Transfer and Ad Hoc file transfer using a variety of methods."

Yorgen Edholm, chief executive officer at Accellion, says that he has sold the appliances in over 20 countries to date, and that in aggregate they hand terabytes of file transfers for more than one million end users.

nuBridges, which is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and which has over 3,000 customers worldwide, is hoping to make those numbers go up even higher, and get a little piece of the action, too. The company sells a line of data security software that encrypts millions of credit card transactions and helps transmit over $900 billion of electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions a year. The company also sells its own secure file transfer products under the Exchange brand.

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