Product News: Boost Operational Efficiencies, Reduce TCO with SecureZIP®

Particularly in today's business environment, organizations are tasked to "do more with less," reducing costs and optimizing the efficiency of existing resources.

In the IT realm, this stance increases the pressure to get the most out of existing hardware and software investments, while effectively managing and protecting growing volumes of data, fulfilling SLAs, and meeting new business requirements and compliance-driven security mandates...all with a keen eye on toeing the line on expenses.

SecureZIP helps boost IT operational efficiencies and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), while continuing to meet daily workflow needs, through file-based data compression, encryption, and management capabilities. SecureZIP combines data compression with encryption, greatly reducing file transmission times and storage requirements, while securely protecting data in use, in transit, and at rest.

As a cross-platform solution, it allows users to exchange data securely across all major computing platforms, including mainframe, midrange, server, and desktop systems. It is also designed to easily integrate into existing infrastructures, processes, and applications to quickly deliver the benefits of data encryption and compression without major operational changes. And, with compression rates of at least 50 percent per file and the flexible security of X.509 digital certificates, passphrases, or both simultaneously, there are compelling benefits to integrate such technology into business processes and applications.

With SecureZIP, numerous operational efficiencies can be realized, ultimately reducing TCO:

• Utilize existing IT infrastructure and assets
• Reduce dependency on point-to-point or secured VPN tunnels when exchanging data
• Remove the need for and cost of intermediate servers for data coming off the mainframe during data exchange
• Meet varying data security requirements within different business environments, with digital certificates and/or passphrases
• Decrease file size, transmission time, and data storage needs
• Efficiently manage files with SecureZIP - condense hundreds or thousands of files into one
• Provide control and audit-ability
• Eliminate dependency on hardware for the retrieval of long-term archive files
• Single vendor for data file compression and encryption needs