On high-latency or lossy links (e.g., 200ms RTT, 2% loss), FileCatalyst moves data at near line speed while FTP/SCP drops to 1–5 Mbps. Alert Logic can ingest critical Windows Security logs from a remote office in minutes instead of hours.
FileCatalyst offers robust APIs and SDKs. Many large organizations embed FileCatalyst directly into their existing web portals or apps, so end-users get the speed benefits without realizing they are using a specialized transfer engine.
If a connection drops mid-transfer, FileCatalyst resumes from the last acknowledged block, not the start. For a 100 GB log file that fails at 99%, Alert Logic avoids re-sending 99 GB of duplicate data.