Monday, March 5th the 2013 HIMSS conference exhibition hall opened in the afternoon. 32,000+ healthcare professionals are expected this year in New Orleans this week. During the first day Warner Thomas, President and CEO of Ochsner Health System was the keynote speaker.

The afternoon brought a variety of meetings, ranging from technology analysts, multiple Biscom customers looking to expand their fax operations or inquire about Biscom's capabilities in the secure file transfer area.

We just recently celebrated our 25th anniversary as an enterprise software company providing document delivery solutions globally, which include customers from 30 of the Fortune 100 companies. Thanks for the note Dialogic!

This is a great story about BDS in a software as a service (SaaS) environment. BankLiberty was looking for a faster, more secure, and more efficient way to send their confidential information out. KDSA Consulting, our partner in North Andover, MA, hosts our secure file transfer solution in their datacenter, handling the back end so our customers don't have to worry about hardware, software, and network connectivity.

My favorite quote in the article, by network administrator Dan Hagstrom, was when he said that "the results in 2010 have been transformative. It's changed the way that we can communicate with the outside world."

Register for a luncheon that Biscom and Keno Kozie will be hosting in Chicago on August 4th. This luncheon will be a way for legal IT professionals to discuss file transfer technologies, how to lock down files during transport, collaborating with clients and external counsel, and replacing FTP servers with a more manageable and secure solution.

 

Biscom and Adapative Solutions have just announced the world's first SFT integration with Autonomy iManage for document management. By integrating BDS with iManage, users can send files in their FileSite repository through BDS directly without having to copy files to their desktop and then send. When receiving files securely through BDS, iManage users can also save files directly to FileSite.

For more information on deploying BDS with your iManage solution, contact Adaptive Solutions. See the full press release here.

Biscom has partnered with TOSS to provide a hosted solution for transfering files. For smaller companies who have confidential, sensitive, or very large files to transfer, the GetSaaS Secure Files solution by TOSS is a great way to deploy secure file transfer services to your users quickly and easily. The best part about this, you're using the same trusted and proven software solution that Fortune 500 companies rely on to transfer their most critical files and data.

We're excited to partner with a company like TOSS who has years of experience in managed services. Read the full press release here.

New press release on our partnership with Keno Kozie, a leading provider of information technology design, service, and support to law firms and legal departments.

See the full press release here.

Biscom and Pro2col Ltd, a privately held company specializing in the supply and integration of network security and secure file transfer solutions, will demonstrate BDS at InfoSecurity Europe, April 27-29, 2010, Earls Court, London, UK. Pro2col and Biscom will be exhibiting together in Booth R88.

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We've just been certified by VMware as a Technology Alliance Partner at the Select Level which means we have VMware certified engineers on staff, and have basically jumped through a bunch of hoops to demonstrate our expertise.

We've actually been running BDS inside virtualized environments since 2005 and we have a fair number of our customers running BDS in a VM today. There are some great benefits to virtualizing, not all of them directly related to our product, but advantages that you should consider.

The advantages of running BDS in a VM are: more efficient use of processing power (which translates into lower power requirements and less rack space), easy separation of tiers for increased security without requiring multiple physical servers, fast re-deployment of the application if a VM goes down, and for the administrator, a centralized management console.

Whether you are already an experienced VM shop, or starting your journey to VM land, know that Biscom is there to support you!