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Fortra's Globalscape WAFS vs WS_FTP Server comparison

 

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Fortra's Globalscape WAFS
Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)
23rd
Average Rating
4.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
WS_FTP Server
Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)
20th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category, the mindshare of Fortra's Globalscape WAFS is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WS_FTP Server is 1.4%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed File Transfer (MFT)
 

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it_user2754 - PeerSpot reviewer
We dropped the product because of the corruption issue.
Two main issues. 1) It can be a bandwidth resource hog over a small WAN link. We would routinely saturate a 3Mbps link with WAFS. This can be mitigated with tuning what gets replicated. 2) In some cases, it can look like the files get replicated because the files have the correct date, file size, etc. However, the file itself was actually all nulls. In our replication case, we had more than 10,000 files get corrupted this way (out of 1.2 million). GlobalScape support basically said that there were issues with W2K8 R2 but the problem actually dated back to 2008 on a W2K3 server.We dropped the product because of the corruption issue.
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Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
9%
Government
9%
 

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BraunAbility, H&M Software, Killeen School, Positive Images UK, Scientific American, Sciforma, The Denver Broncos
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