Flux is a software company that develops and licenses a software product, also called Flux, targeted for the Workload Automation

Workload Automation

The concept of Workload Automation is an evolution of traditional job schedulers which needed to react to the dynamic demands of IT. Workload automation needs to be able to coordinate—in real-time—a varied set of workload types with complex dependencies across a broad spectrum of operating systems...

 and Managed File Transfer

Managed File Transfer

Managed file transfer ' refers to software solutions that facilitate the secure transfer of data, in flight and at rest, from one computer to another through a network . MFT solutions are often built to support the FTP network protocol...

 markets. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Flux also has offices in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

 and Montana

Montana

Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

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Company

Flux was founded in 2000 by David Sims when it transitioned from a one person consulting shop to a software company that sold an automatic job scheduler software component for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. The company has been self-funded

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping or booting refers to a group of metaphors that share a common meaning: a self-sustaining process that proceeds without external help....

 since its inception.

Since then, the company's product has evolved into serving the Workload Automation

Workload Automation

The concept of Workload Automation is an evolution of traditional job schedulers which needed to react to the dynamic demands of IT. Workload automation needs to be able to coordinate—in real-time—a varied set of workload types with complex dependencies across a broad spectrum of operating systems...

 and Managed File Transfer

Managed File Transfer

Managed file transfer ' refers to software solutions that facilitate the secure transfer of data, in flight and at rest, from one computer to another through a network . MFT solutions are often built to support the FTP network protocol...

markets.

Partners

File Transfer Consulting has partnered with Flux to provide a resource for designing managed file transfer systems. Flux is one of the tools that File Transfer Consulting uses to help meet its clients' managed file transfer needs. File Transfer Consulting's staff has developed managed file transfer tools that are used by more than 1,200 enterprises worldwide.