Harvard Medical School Selects Accellion Courier Secure File Transfer Appliance SFTA to Let Users Send Large Files Securely and Easily.

Leading medical school uses Accellion secure file transfer solution to meet the needs of medical teaching and academic research

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Accellion, Inc. (www.accellion.com), a leading provider of on-demand secure file transfer solutions for enterprise users announced today that Harvard Medical School has selected Accellion Courier Secure File Transfer Appliance (SFTA) to enhance its secure large file transfer capability with external partners and organizations.

"As an academic and healthcare institution, many of our users need an intuitive way to communicate massive amount of data securely with external organizations for activities such as research and grant writing," says John D. Halamka, MD, MS, Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN), Chief Information Officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI), and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "Accellion SFTA provides an easy to use and easy to administer ad hoc secure file transfer solution for us."

"Emails about expanding file size limits in Microsoft Exchange will become a thing of the past," adds Halamka.

"Accellion is proud to support Harvard Medical School's mission in providing world class medical teaching and patient care," said Yorgen H. Edholm, president and CEO of Accellion. "Accellion has extensive knowledge on meeting the secure file transfer needs of medical/healthcare and academic research institutions with the Accellion Courier Secure File Transfer Appliance solution."

Additional information regarding Accellion's Courier SFTA solution can be found at www.accellion.com.

About Accellion

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