Sterling Connect:Direct

Overcome your dependency on unreliable FTP and free up valuable IT resources

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, Sterling Connect:Direct is the point-to-point file transfer software optimized for high-volume, secure, assured delivery of files within and among enterprises. 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
Sterling Connect:Direct is available as licensed on premise software

When your organization needs to have the right file at the right time, using an unreliable file transfer solution is a risk that you just can’t afford to take. IBM Sterling Connect:Direct can give you the peace of mind with capabilities that include:

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
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

Assured File Delivery

Supports checkpoint restart
Automatic recovery from network interruptions
Automated alert notifications for success/failure

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

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+

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

Multiple Platform Support