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3 Ways Your Peers are Using Secure Forms

By Chris Spargen on Thu, 04/05/2018
If you exchange any amount of sensitive information as paper documents, electronic PDFs, images, or spreadsheets, you know keeping track of data and ensuring it gets where it needs to go can be a challenge. And if you work with multiple parties to receive this information, like employees, vendors, clients, stakeholders, and trading partners, you also...
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On-Premises and the Cloud: A Comparison of Two Unique Environments

By Heath Kath on Tue, 03/20/2018
On-premises. The cloud. Hybrid environments.As technology evolves and business needs grow, organizations are rapidly trying to make sense of their options. What are the benefits of running their software and data on-premises? What concerns should IT and security teams be aware of when implementing their processes in the cloud? Can they do a bit of both and go hybrid?There is no right or wrong...
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15 Ways to Avoid Document Chaos with Secure Forms

By Chris Spargen on Tue, 02/20/2018
Vendors, employees, customers, and trading partners exchange an abundance of files every day, often by a variety of means including mail, email, telecomm apps like Skype, shared file storage like Dropbox or Google Drive, and sometimes even SMS. While documents are an inescapable reality for busy organizations, keeping track of this data can be...
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The GDPR is Coming… What’s it Mean to You?

Thu, 01/25/2018
There is a new wave of regulation coming in the form of the European Union Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR). These provisions and regulations have been in development over the last four years, and starting May 25th, 2018; it will begin to be enforced. After that date, substantial fines will be imposed on those who don’t comply with new regulations. Before we dive into what this will mean for...
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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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5 Cloud Security Best Practices for Microsoft Azure

By Brian Pick on Tue, 10/17/2017
Migrating company data to the cloud is often a primary goal for modern organizations. In fact, by 2018, 60% of organizations’ IT infrastructure will be cloud-based, according to IDG’s Enterprise Cloud Computing Survey. Cloud infrastructure comes with many benefits, including—but not limited to—reducing IT budgets, improved data security, endless...
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5 Best Practices for IBM i File Transfers

By Tom Huntington on Tue, 10/17/2017
Using IBM’s built-in FTP and Open SSH servers to transfer files to and from your IBM i systems can be time-consuming, if not simply riddled with fine details. From scripting knowledge to running specific (and sometimes obscure) commands, there’s a lot to consider—and the safety and integrity of your files is probably at the top of the list. ...
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30 Ways to Simplify Life with Advanced Workflows

By Brian Pick on Tue, 09/19/2017
Are you using GoAnywhere’s Advanced Workflows yet? If not, you’re missing out. What are Workflows? Workflows are projects you can create in GoAnywhere MFT to define your file transfers and improve your business processes. Each project is able to contain multiple tasks that execute in a seamless end-to-end workflow. Pretty neat, right? Why Use...
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7 Cloud Security Best Practices for Amazon Web Services

By Brian Pick on Thu, 07/27/2017
Temporary and permanent storage of data in the cloud has grown in popularity over the years. Companies like Land O’Lakes and Boeing moved their information to the cloud last year to simplify the technology they used. Video-streaming behemoth Netflix finished their journey to the cloud in early 2016 after seven years of moving systems and customer...
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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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How to Create a Cybersecurity Policy for Your Organization

By Brian Pick on Wed, 05/10/2017
The cyberattacks and data breaches that make the news are usually the ones that happen at big corporations like TJX or Home Depot. But every organization, large or small, needs to be concerned about cybersecurity.According to Security Magazine, the average cost of a data breach for a small business is between $36,000 and $50,000. And while the...
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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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