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Uploading Files Into Azure Blob Storage at Multi-Gigabit Speeds

Wed, 11/29/2017
Moving data into cloud storage can present a number of challenges for organizations across all industries. Some of these challenges include finding a tool that can simplify the process and a solution that can move the data to the cloud as fast as possible. This blog will examine two methods used to transfer files into Microsoft Azure Blob storage: using Microsoft’s tool AzCopy and using...
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A Reflection on NAB: Media Industry Trends, Challenges and How the Industry is Responding

Tue, 05/30/2017
After getting back from the NAB show this year, I have been thinking about some of the media industry trends that present changes, as well as the opportunities. The industry as a whole has been in a state of change: the content itself is rapidly becoming larger, workflows are changing and becoming more dispersed, the way we archive media is changing...
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TransferAgent Brings the Power of Filecatalyst to the Simplicity of a Web Browser

Tue, 04/25/2017
I just finished watching a webinar our president, John Tkaczewski, gave on the new version 4.9.9 of FileCatalyst Workflow and it was a great learning experience. He gave an in-depth overview of TransferAgent and outlined its features past and new. It was really interesting stuff, so I thought I would write a blog article that outlines some of these new features. Consider this a supplementary piece...
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SSL and file transfers, the marriage of all marriages

Thu, 03/30/2017
The support team here at FileCatalyst team polled our customers who are using FileCatalyst Central v3.6 and asked what type of improvements they would like to see in our next release of Central. Security was a topic of interest to our customers, and they were asking us about the things we are doing in terms of security. With this in mind, we have taken steps with SSL that has secured our software...
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Moving Big Data in the Oil & Gas Industry

Mon, 10/17/2016
Did you know it takes over $100 million to drill a deep-water well? Holding true to the cliched phrase oil and gas companies know all too well: it takes money to make money. The deep digging associated with the oil and gas industry requires equally deep pockets. When it comes to making the big business decisions required in the oil and gas industry, major companies like Shell, BP, Chevron, BHP...
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How To: Change Emulation Mode in Internet Explorer to Load TransferAgent Properly

Fri, 07/15/2016
Any FileCatalyst application that previously used embedded Java applets in a browser has a migration path to FileCatalyst TransferAgent. Moving forward with this solution, we have been able to bring functionality of this product Google Chrome v42 and newer. Firefox v40 and newer. Internet Explorer v10 and newer. In Internet Explorer, users have found that the application “stalls” at...
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Bringing content to life with Aframe

Wed, 07/06/2016
If you’ve ever tried to send a large video file, you know what a time consuming process it can be. For the production pros using Aframe – the world’s most powerful video collaboration platform – they need to transfer thousands of videos every day. Imagine how long this would take using standard FTP. ...
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Aframe: Providing Positive Experiences Through Accelerated File Transfers

Whether for television, film, news, sports, commercials, or corporate, global collaborators have, in the past, shared their production video files one by one over HTTP, or sent files through FTP using a third party client (Cyberduck, Filezilla, etc.). Read on to learn how FileCatalyst allowed data structures to be preserved, and data is encrypted in transit using the AES 128-bit standard, and this transfer is completed in excellent time.
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Picking up right where we left off with the 2016 Rio Olympic Games

Fri, 04/15/2016
Over the years, we have had the privilege of working with many customers and partners who have benefited from the FileCatalyst technology and this year, that privilege continues. Once again, NBC Sports and FileCatalyst join forces to deliver seamless coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. During the Games, NBC Olympics will utilize FileCatalyst technology to move data over a 5 Gbps link between...
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U.S. Captioning Accelerating the Transfer of Digital Files for Closed Captioning

Profile Since 1999, U.S. Captioning Company has been instrumental in providing high quality captioning services at affordable rates. Over the years, they expanded their services to meet the needs of clients who value the importance of supplying accessible communication for deaf and hard of hearing communities. Through using U.S. Captioning services, patrons are given access to television programs...
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Teleportation, time travel and covered wagons

Thu, 08/06/2015
After the death of Leanord Nimoy this year, I found myself cruising the internet reading about him, about Star Trek, about sci-fi in general. I came across an article about teleportation that really caught my interest. This article pointed out that researchers had worked out how many bits of information were stored in a human being. It was an astounding 2.6 Tredecillion bits (that’s a number with...
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An introduction to data gravity

Tue, 07/14/2015
A couple of months ago, our President and Co-Founder John Tkaczewski had the honour of presenting an introduction to data gravity at the NAB virtual conference. While the concept of data gravity has been around for a few years, it isn’t talked about very often, especially in relation to our business – file transfer. Coined in 2010 by Dave McCrory, the basic concept of data gravity is that...
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FileCatalyst: What does it do (part 3)

Fri, 11/21/2014
Think of the internet as garden hose. Now let’s say that this hose has a kink and the amount of water flowing through the hose is constricted. By bringing in acceleration technology, the kink is removed and now the flow can be as much as the hose can take. The diameter of the hose will be your bandwidth, the higher the diameter the more data we can push, but we can’t push anymore data than the...
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The effect of digital technology adoption in the oil and gas industry

Tue, 07/15/2014
A recent article by CIO UK points out how digital technology is rising exponentially in the oil and gas sector. From seismic imaging to e-learning, 80% of senior executives in the industry believe digital advancements have revolutionized how they work. The remaining 20% believe digital technology has had a tangible impact. No matter who you ask, it’s evident the adoption is positively affecting...
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A Corporate Cloud-Based Large File Attachment Solution

Tue, 05/20/2014
Looking for a corporate cloud-based large file attachment solution? With file sizes growing and email servers still having file size restrictions, companies are in desperate need of a solution. The options most companies have are: free or paid online service hosted by a third party, in-house file transfer mechanism, or self-hosted solution on the cloud. Going with the free or paid solution...
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Cleaning Coding, Clean Code Series (Part 2)

Thu, 01/16/2014
Sometimes the hardest part of clean code is getting everyone else on board. In my last post on clean coding I talked about why clean code was important, how it saves money in the long run and increases productivity. Now I want to talk a little bit about some of the do’s and don’ts of clean coding. Proper clean code without side effects takes...
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Archives – A Perfect Fit for File Transfer Acceleration

Tue, 01/07/2014
A recent article at tvtechnology.com, discusses the ambiguity of the term “archive,” and uses the Library of Congress archives as an example of how digital media is changing the way films are preserved for future access and use.It was not within the scope of the article to discuss how files are shuttled between locations, but it seems clear that file transfer acceleration would be extremely useful...
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Driving Efficient Video Game Production: 5 Invaluable File Transfer Features

Mon, 11/25/2013
Video game development requires vast amounts of communication and collaboration at every step of the process. As development occurs, teams must share and exchange files within the office, across the country or even around the world. During development, Electronic Arts’ “Battlefield 4” game files were as large as 50GB, making file transfer a...
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NASA’s 622 Mbps Link to the Moon: How to Increase Transfer Speeds for Large Files

Mon, 10/28/2013
In a recent press release NASA announced that now they have a 622 Mbps Laser link to the moon. The press release also mentions that NASA was also able to transfer data at 20Mbps from earth to the space craft via this link. I’m wondering what effective rate was NASA getting when transferring data on this link? The data should be transferring at the theoretical limit of 622Mbps. Data Throughput...
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Prioritizing Transfers in FileCatalyst Direct

Thu, 07/18/2013
FileCatalyst routinely helps users make full use of your bandwidth for file transfer. Scenarios in which bandwidth is optimized include cases where certain file transfers have higher priority than others, or when files being exchanged with a particular customer are more important than files exchanged with others. FileCatalyst Direct offers up a number of controls in its FileCatalyst HotFolder and...
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