PM Tools: Transport Large Files with Pipebytes
January 12, 2008 – 4:43 pmOne of the biggest pains of intercompany projects is often file transport. You have a file- a presentation, software manual, whatever- that is big enough that you can’t send it via email due to file attachment size limits on your email server. You can’t IM it due to security policies. You can’t this, you can’t that… sooner or later, you end up pleading to someone in IT Operation to let you set up an FTP site somewhere, which you have to wait for to be set up, go through hoops to get everyone access to the FTP site… the list of pain around this goes on and on, and I bet you’ve all dealt with it.
If you are lucky enough that your company has adopted some tool to help you around this (Sharepoint and similar portal products can be a blessing), good for you, but if not, Pipebytes is a handy new service for you. It’s private and controlled, unlike most P2P solutions. It is an ad-driven service (the service shows youtube videos with embedded ads while you wait for your file to transfer), but if you need to send a large file quick and don’t have a solution handy, the price is quite worth it. Give it a try!
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