Lorraine Lawson put together some insights on old reliable file transfer protocol (FTP), noting that it continues to play a key role in SOA and cloud-based infrastructures. FTP was first designed back in the year of 1971 before TCP and IP even existed. The current specification was created in 1985. She quotes Frank Kenney, formerly one of Gartner’s go-to gurus in the SOA space, and now vice president of global strategy for Ip switch File Transfer.