Cleo Communications Partners with Thru to Offer Best-in-Breed Solutions for Advanced Managed File Transfer with Full-Featured Ad Hoc Capabilities

Loves Park, IL and Irving TX (PRWEB) June 15, 2011

Cleo Communications, leading provider of secure enterprise managed file transfer (MFT) solutions and, Thru, Inc., the leading provider of globally networked enterprise cloud-based managed file transfer platform as a service (MFT PaaS), today announced their newly-formed partnership. With both parties driven to find market-leading feature sets to enhance their current file transfer offerings, the pairing of two best-in-breed solutions was an ideal way to offer their respective customers more. This joint effort is further supported by Gartner in a report entitled Predicts 2011: Application integration: A Nimble Veteran of IT, Nov. 23, 2010, which states that by 2015, 40% of integration projects involving application to application (A2A), B2B, MFT and cloud services will be implementing with one IT solution.

The Cleo-Thru partnership brings with it the most flexible options on the market for enterprises of all sizes looking to secure and manage their file transfers. Thru will offer Cleos best-in-breed managed file transfer solution, VLTrader as a hosted solution alongside their existing cloud-based offerings. In turn, Cleo will offer Thrus best-in-breed ad hoc capabilities as an add-on to both existing and new VLTrader customers with on-premise installations. This joint effort supports A2A and SOA, and gives enterprise customers the flexibility to choose the best infrastructure to support their changing business needs by leveraging the strengths of both partners experience.

What Gartner Says

Organizations who are consolidating file transfer solutions are looking for solutions that support a wide range of use scenarios, including A2A, SOA, B2B, cloud and ad hoc Managed File Transfer while also providing the same level of security, compliance, and functionality across all use scenarios, said Thomas Skybakmoen, Sr. Research Analyst Gartner.

What Cleo Says

This partnership gives us the opportunity to offer our customers more flexibility in VLTrader. And, not just more from anyone, but more from a tried and trusted, best-of-breed solution that is a natural addition to our current offering. As an AS2 Leader with a dominant history in secure EDI and B2B communications, Cleo brings to the table more than 30 years of expertise that is apparent in the power of the Cleo solutions. We pride ourselves on offering our customers the best secure and managed file transfer solutions on the market. Thrus ad hoc capabilities combined with those in VLTrader put us in an advantageous position to offer the most advanced, easy to use and full-featured enterprise MFT solution available. Todd Enneking, Vice President of Business Development, Cleo

For Cleo, this is another testament to the truly flexible, advanced managed file transfer capabilities of VLTrader and commitment to demand-driven enhancements. For Thru, this solidifies the position of a comprehensive, secure file transfer hosted solution. These combined market-leading solutions will make a powerful impact on the MFT market.

What Thru Says

Cleos steady-handed approach is without rival and we have long admired them as the unquestioned leader in premised-based B2B solutions, said Lee Harrison, CEO of Thru. As Thru proudly marks our 10 years of building what the analysts dub a best-of-breed platform as a service, this agreement gives us the ability to continue to offer our customers unequaled service offerings of both Cleo and Thru. Customers who require unobstructed visibility to all file transfers, A2A, B2B, ad hoc, cloud or premised- based will benefit from combined current and future joint offerings. Thrus accelerated global network is now available to Cleos VLTrader community for faster large load global communications projects. Thru and Cleo are truly a dynamic duo!

Best-in-breed solutions. Flexible offerings. Dedication to securing enterprise file transfers. Cleo and Thru allow enterprises to take control of various methods of file transfer, gain visibility to all sensitive, mission-critical and ad hoc files transfers and bring peace of mind to those responsible for information security and compliance.

About Cleo

Cleo Communications provides proven, secure, advanced software solutions to companies that have enterprise-wide managed file transfer needs. Powerful, easy-to-use software helps clients secure, manage and consolidate data while meeting the most comprehensive requirements of multiprotocol communications. VLTrader, Cleos flagship managed file transfer solution, helps businesses across numerous vertical industries save money, optimize IT resources, consolidate communications, streamline workflows, control ad hoc communications and meet both SLAs and regulatory compliance mandates. Comprehensive reporting keeps customers in the know. With over 30 years of EDI experience and the leader in AS2 communications, Cleo solutions are customer and partner-ready to help move businesses forward today. Find out more at http://www.cleo.com.

About Thru

Thru, Inc., the leading cloud-based enterprise Managed File Transfer Platform as a Service (MFTPaaS), moves extremely large files with no downtime. Files go rapidly and efficiently, whether across the street or around the globe and without the tremendous IT overhead of deploying and managing global server farms and high-bandwidth internet connections. Thru was named a ‘Cool Vendor’ by Gartner, Inc., in the Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service 2011 report, April 7, 2011.

For more information, go to http://www.thruinc.com, call 1-(800) 871-9316 or (214) 496-0100, or email info(at)thruinc(dot)com, subscribe to the Thru blog at http://thrumft.wordpress.com/, follow Thru on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thru-Inc/179418792101092 and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ThruF=MFT.

Cleo Communications Partners with Thru to Offer Best-in-Breed Solutions for Advanced Managed File Transfer with Full-Featured Ad Hoc Capabilities

Thru to Exhibit at AIA 2011 National Convention Thru to Demonstrate New Automated Integrated Product Delivery (IPD) Tools for Collaboration, Efficiency, Governance

Irving, TX (PRWEB) April 21, 2011

Thru, Inc., provider of the leading globally networked enterprise cloud-based Managed File Transfer as a Service (MFTaaS) platform, announced today that it will be exhibiting at the AIA 2011 National Convention, May 12-14, in New Orleans, LA. Since 1857, the AIA has been the leading association for licensed architects, and their annual convention and expo brings together more than 17,000 architecture, building, and design industry professionals. Thru partners with key architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) customers whom require secure file sharing for collaboration and reporting.

What: Thru will exhibit in Booth #3410 in the Software Pavilion at the AIA 2011 National Convention and Design Exposition; http://convention.aia.org/

Where: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

When: May 12-14, 2011

What Thru, Inc. says:

Thru is supporting billions in build projects with partners that include HKS, Webcor Builders, and SWA, who recognize the benefits of the Thru MFTaaS platform for file sharing and collaboration, as well as distribution and tracking of all transfers for project builds, billing, and archiving, said Lee Harrison, CEO of Thru. We are excited to showcase our global file transfer capabilities, including new tools to collaborate and manage information sharing for projects executing design build or integrated project delivery (IPD). Thru provides its customers with best-in-class project efficiency and governance — without IT, external or guest users on the system, or required trainingall with the industry standard SLA and 100% uptime.

About the AIA

Based in Washington, DC, the AIA has been the leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners since 1857. With nearly 300 state and local chapters, the AIA serves as the voice of the architecture profession and the resource for members in service to society. They carry out goals through advocacy, information, and community. Each year the AIA sponsors hundreds of continuing education experiences to help architects maintain their licensure; sets the industry standard in contract documents with more than 100 forms and contracts used in the design and construction industry; publishes online publications; provides countless Web-based resources for emerging architecture professionals; conducts market research and provides analysis of the economic factors that affect the business of architecture; hosts the annual AIA National Convention and Design Exposition; serves as an advocate of the architecture profession; champions architects future by enhancing public belief in the value of design; and promotes design excellence and outstanding professional achievement through an awards program.

About Thru, Inc.

Thru, Inc., the leading cloud-based enterprise Managed File Transfer as a Service (MFTaaS), moves extremely large files with no downtime. Files go rapidly and efficiently, whether across the street or around the globe and without the tremendous IT overhead of deploying and managing global server farms and high-bandwidth internet connections. Thru was named a ‘Cool Vendor’ by Gartner, Inc., in the Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service 2011 report, April 7, 2011.

For more information, go to http://www.thruinc.com, call 1-(800) 871-9316 or (214) 496-0100, or email info(at)thruinc(dot)com, subscribe to the Thru blog at http://thrumft.wordpress.com/, follow Thru on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thru-Inc/179418792101092 and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ThruMFT.

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Thru Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm: Vendors Selected for the Cool Vendor Report are Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing

(Vocus/PRWEB) April 12, 2011

Thru, Inc., the leading provider of globally networked Managed File Transfer as a Service, or MFTaaS, today announced has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service, 2011 report by Gartner, Inc.

What the Gartner Research Report says in Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service 2011

by Yefim V. Natis, Eric Knipp, Teresa Jones, Paolo Malinverno, Thomas Skybakmoen, Thomas E. Murphy, David Mitchell Smith, Benoit J. Lheureux, April 7, 2011.

CIOs, CTOs, IT planners, IT architects and decision makers should begin to include cloud computing considerations in all new technology decisions, paying special consideration to building expertise in PaaS. Additionally, while in 2011 software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) generate larger revenue, PaaS stands to offer future users and providers the greatest opportunity for innovation and differentiation.

What Thru says

Thru has long looked to Gartners research to help guide our marketing and technology efforts, said Lee Harrison, CEO of Thru. The inclusion of Thru in the Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service, 2011 report by Gartner, Inc., is a significant milestone for Thru, and we believe it confirms our mission to provide customers with a strategic replacement for dated self-managed, premised-based file transfer technologies, such as FTP, with Thrus easy-to-deploy and use cloud-based file transfer technology. The Thru platform provides insight, security, and risk mitigation, while managing domestic large file transfer or accelerating the transfer of files globally. Thru continues to strengthen our partnerships and execute on our roadmap to aid customers in their overall information exchange initiatives with our MFTaaS platform and plugin solutions. We continue to strengthen our position in the market in the near future with a wider reach of the Thru global file transfer network and will add greater security, capacity, speed and vertically specific workflows supporting our system-to-system, partner-to-partner, and person-to-person environments.

About Thru, Inc.

Thru, Inc., the leading cloud-based enterprise managed file transfer as a service (MFTaaS), moves extremely large files with no downtime. Files go rapidly and efficiently, whether across the street or around the globe and without the tremendous IT overhead of deploying and managing global server farms and high bandwidth internet connections.

For more information, go to http://www.thruinc.com, call 1-(800) 871-9316 or (214) 496-0100, or email info(at)thruinc(dot)com, subscribe to the Thru blog at http://thrumft.wordpress.com/, follow Thru on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thru-Inc/179418792101092 and Twitter at http://twitter.com/ThruF=MFT.

Cool Vendor Disclaimer

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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Thru Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm: Vendors Selected for the Cool Vendor Report are Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing