It happens to all of us. Just minutes after Fedex leaves the lobby, you get a call from your legal department informing you that they made a few more changes to the big sales contract. Or the beta software you've sent out has a new patch--and an additional DVD?

The growth of the "digital tsunami" or the "data tsunami" is still a very much a hot topic. At the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made waves (pun intended) when he said that "There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days, and the pace is increasing...People aren't ready for the technology revolution that's going to happen to them."

They say you can't get something for nothing, but it's not true. "How's that?" you ask.

When it comes to managed file transfer or "MFT", transferring large files inside the network is fairly straightforward; almost a no-brainer. Sending large files outside the network can be more of a challenge--especially if the recipient needs to preregister or install a plug-in. With Safe-T, no plug-in is required... but we've already covered this territory.

The other day a friend at a biotech company asked me how Safe-T differed from other managed file transfer solutions. While I talked a lot about flexibility and extensibility, I couldn't find a nice analogy... until now. And it's Burger King's Subservient Chicken.

In the recently released report, The Digital Universe Decade - Are You Ready?, the IDC delivers some "shock and awe" about the size of the digital universe, i.e., the amount of digital information in the world. In 2009, they "calculated" it to be 800,000 petabytes or 800,000 million gigabytes. That's the equivalent of a stack of DVDs reaching from the earth to the moon and back (!).

With Safe-T, there is no maximum file size. Really. Not 10 GB, not 20 GB and not 50GB. Simply put, you can send files or folders of any size with the Safe-T Solution. And it makes no difference if you send your files using the Safe-T plug-in for Microsoft Outlook or our web user interface.

All large email attachments are offloaded to the Safe-T Enterprise Server, relieving strain on Microsoft Exchange or your corporate email system. No less important, your email client fully stays fully operational during file transfer and you can continue to use your email and even send additional large files.

For more questions about Safe-T, please see our FAQ.

Many are surprised by a story first published by the New York Post: that the perennial underdog, Apple Computers, is being investigated by the DoJ for monopolistic practices. Actually, I'm a bit surprised that the DoJ didn't start an investigation until now.

I love my iPod, but discussions of Apple's monopolistic (or Microsoftistic?) practices didn't just start with Steve's Job's pronouncement about Flash. With a quick Google, I picked up a story in PC World from way back in September 2007:

"People love iPods... But iPods come bundled with iTunes. Want to buy music from Apple? Guess what? You must install iTunes. Want an Apple cell phone from AT&T? Yep! ITunes is required even if you want only to make phone calls. Want to buy ringtones for your Apple phone? ITunes... Apple not only "bundles" iTunes with multiple products, it forces you to use it. At least with Internet Explorer, you could always just download a competitor and ignore IE."

By Gad Cohen, VP Business Development

I spent a long day in the beautiful city of Geneva meeting with our local customers and prospects. During one of the meetings, a security manager who is championing our product told me, "The key to security is making it easy to the users." He explained that putting in place a strong security policy is easy; making people adopt it is the real challenge.

There will be no files in a cake for Huping Zhou, who will be serving  jail time for reading the confidential medical files of co-workers and celebrities. Zhou is the first person to be sentenced to prison for violating patient privacy and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Zhou, who was a licensed surgeon in China, was working as a researcher at the UCLA School of Medicine in 2003 when he began accessing medical records of his supervisor and co-workers after being notified that he would be fired for job performance issues.

Over the next three weeks, rather than boosting his performance, he boosted his snooping and started digging into celebrity records. In total, he accessed the patient records system 323 times.

Today ZDNet and others covered Apple CEO Steve Jobs' open letter where he defends Apple's decision to prohibit Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. He claims that "Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven - they say we want to protect our App Store - but in reality it is based on technology issues."

He then outlines five reasons Apple refuses to allow the use of Flash:

1. Openness: Flash is proprietary while web standards such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript should be open.
2. ‘Full Web' myth: Jobs says that plenty of video content is available using the "more modern" H.264 format
3. Reliability, security and performance: Jobs noted Flash for having "one of the worst security records in 2009," according to Symantec.
4. Battery life: Jobs insinuates that Flash cuts mobile battery life in half
5. Touch format: Jobs writes that Flash is made for a mouse-driven PC, and not Apple's touch-based interface