Scientist develops new and free way to send large files around the Web
A new way to send large files around the Web completely free of charge has been launched by the University of Southampton.
ZendTo is a free and secure, Web-based system, which will allow users to send large files much faster than by email. The system allows users to send files within and beyond their organisations from their own servers with no size restriction.
Julian Field, who is Postmaster for Electronics and Computer Science at the University, developed ZendTo. He says: "This is completely free and because you run it on your own site, you can be sure that it is completely safe and private and you retain complete control of your data, your system and your users."
ZendTo is particularly useful for organisations which operate in a customer service environment, since when it sends files, it incorporates customer service ticketing references, so that all the references are kept intact.
ZendTo is Julian's next big development since MailScanner, the world-leading email security and anti-spam system. He began developing MailScanner in 2000 and it has been downloaded over 1.5 million times and is used by some of the world's leading organisations in 226 countries, such as the US Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command; Harvard, MIT, and Cambridge universities; Vodafone Europe; Amnesty International; Friends of the Earth; and the British Antarctic Survey. The technology is fast becoming the standard email solution at many ISP sites for virus protection and spam filtering.
Julian adds: "Ironically, the success of MailScanner and its strict security protocol means that it imposes limits on files being sent by email, which led to the development of ZendTo which has no size or type restrictions."
More information: ZendTo is now available at: http://zend.to/
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The added-value of this package appears to be the access control and logging, including IP address, as users put and take files on the server you set control. So, RIAA probably is pleased as punch with Zendto.
Zendto's claimed speed-up is only 1.5x email, so the previous post probably is correct about an FTP server being faster, but probably not much for large files (which are this product's reason for existence, let's not forget).
Email may not have been meant for file transport, but it gets used for file transport, and so email system admins limit attachment size. Thus the need for a product targeted at large file transport.
Why the negativity for this open source, donation-ware solution to some people's needs?
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In any case, it is way simpler than email and faster than 1.5x email!
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But I doubt that you're really uploading your files to Dropbox very much faster than 1.5x the speed that large email attachments are uploaded to your email-forwarding host unless somebody has some protocol settings screwed up somewhere or else that host is slow and/or distant.
Disclaimer-such-as-it-is: I had no knowledge of Zendto's existence before reading this article.
I still don't get the negativity.
May 18, 2011
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And you cant do this with FTP?(sarcastic question) :)
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