FTP, or File Transfer Protocol dates back to 1971 when its original specification was published in RFC 114, and later amended in 1980 during the switch to TCP/IP, and again in 1994 (RFC 1579), and ...

However, they’re different protocols with different roots, with SFTP’s story starting at the same time as SSH’s, in the late 1990s. At that time, graphical file-transfer clients had grown commonplace, ...

SFTP support, combined with protocol support for NFS 3.0, Blob REST, and Azure Data Lake Storage, helps customers migrate their applications without any changes.