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FileCatalyst partners with high performance storage DDP

Mon, 02/22/2016
Unlimi-Tech Software, Inc., an Emmy® award winning pioneer in managed file transfers and the creator of FileCatalyst, a world leading accelerated file transfer solution, is pleased to announce an integration partnership with Ardis Technologies to combine accelerated media file transfer with their DynamicDrivePool (DDP) series of Ethernet based SAN systems. Ardis Technologies started as a...
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What is AS2? Common Protocol Explained

By Brian Pick on Thu, 12/10/2015
For those that ask "What is AS2?," AS2 is an abbreviation for Applicability Statement 2, which is a popular file transfer protocol that allows businesses to exchange data with their trading partners.AS2 protocol combines the use of several secure and widely used technologies including HTTPS, SSL Certificates, S/MIME, and file hashing. By utilizing...
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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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Truly Secure On-Premises Document Management for HR

By Brian Pick on Tue, 03/24/2015
HR departments receive, generate, and accumulate substantial volumes of documents such as job postings, employment applications, resumes, reference checks, testing data, personnel files, wage and hour records, payroll records, and disciplinary files. GoDrive by GoAnywhere is a secure file storage and collaboration solution that's ideally...
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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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Managed File Transfer 101: What's in it for Me?

By Brian Pick on Tue, 07/08/2014
Note from the Editor: This blog is a recap of an older webinar. To view the most recent webinars, you can do so here.Meet MFTThe term MFT (Managed File Transfer) is not new, but you may have begun to hear it more frequently. Changes in data security and transmission regulations have brought this established technology to the forefront, but what...
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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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SFTP Server in the DMZ or Private Network

By Brian Pick on Wed, 03/19/2014
Many organizations have an SFTP server installed where their trading partners can connect to securely upload and download sensitive files. SFTP Server in the DMZ Traditionally SFTP Servers have been installed in the DMZ (or public facing) segment of the network since organizations were fearful of opening inbound ports into the Private (internal) network. ...
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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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OpenPGP, PGP, and GPG: What is the Difference?

By Brian Pick on Thu, 07/18/2013
The privacy capabilities of encryption methods such as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) allow organizations to achieve a hightened amount of data security and protection. There are various approaches and elements of comparison for these encryption methods, however, and each one comes with their own histories, features, and capabilities. These are: PGP,...
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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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Could Your FTP Server Pass a Compliance Audit?

By Brian Pick on Tue, 07/09/2013
If an auditor showed up to your office tomorrow and wanted to examine your file transfer security policies and procedures for compliance, how confident are you that your organization would pass with flying colors?If there’s any doubt that your file exchange process can meet stringent compliance requirements, a secure managed file transfer solution...
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REST Development: Why HTTP Status Codes are Important

Wed, 05/01/2013
There are many ways in which REST developers can tackle error handling. Most REST services will send some kind of error condition structure which embeds an error message describing the error and some kind of code. This is a good start. However, for some REST services the HTTP status code is not well defined. In some cases, the REST services send an “OK” status code of 200 regardless of whether an...
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