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FileCatalyst JavaScript API: In-Browser File Transfer

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Introduction The FileCatalyst JavaScript API offers the ability to implement an accelerated file transfer application from within a web browser. Using the API, you are able to customize the end-user's file transfer experience, integrating the file transfer into your site (in terms of both functionality and UI) in a way not necessarily possible with the [...]


What Problems are we solving?

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

This blog post is in response to a Google+ topic presented here by Jay Cuthrell (@qthrul) The question was: I'm catching up on Aspera, Digital Rapids, FileCatalyst, Kencast, RepliWeb, RocketStream (TIBCO), Signiant, SmartJog, etc... What problems are each of these companies solving today? Tomorrow? Any other suggestions? My response was an impromptu stream... written on [...]


The World is Getting Faster – FTP is not

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Just finished reading a post at GigaOm regarding gigabit fibre in the UK. Of course, being in the business that we're in, I immediately thought: if businesses of all sizes, and even homes end up with 300Mbps connections (or faster), what are all these people going to be doing to transfer their large files? Home [...]


FileCatalyst at GTEC 2011

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

GTEC is Canada's government technology event. Thousands of visitors from both the public and private sectors will be at GTEC to learn about the technologies at play within the government, as well as emerging technologies which may soon become a part of the government's technology landscape. FileCatalyst has been deployed in a number of government [...]


FileCatalyst at InterOp NY 2011

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

FileCatalyst will be in New York at the Javits Centre from Oct 3–7, showcasing the lastest advances in our technology. Come visit us at booth 603 and we'll be happy to answer all your questions or provide a demonstration. While showing our technology, we will be focusing specifically on: 10 Gbps transfers in the Enterprise. [...]


The Road To Banff leads through the Cloud

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Recently, FileCatalyst had a great opportunity to be a part of Canada 3.0, a digital media forum with over 2,000 participants discussing and shaping Canada's digital landscape. One of the events was a “pitch off” that saw participants exchanging large digital media assets. FileCatalyst provided the transport technology, which was deployed to a cloud solution [...]


FileCatalyst at IBC

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

At the time of this post, IBC is still a number of weeks away. However, preparations have been underway for several months already, and the date will be upon us before we know it! Since the last show, there have been major iterations of all our software, including the well-anticipated release of FileCatalyst Direct 3.0 [...]


FileCatalyst Direct 2.9 in Beta

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

The next version of our FileCatalyst Direct product is ramping up for imminent release. For several days now, existing clients and interested parties have been testing beta versions of 2.9 and providing final feedback before launch. If you are interested in checking out 2.9 before it goes into production, be sure to talk to your [...]


Hosting.com and FileCatalyst partner for fast file transfer on the Cloud

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Press release came out yesterday. Anyone following us on Twitter (@filecatalyst) will have seen a few excited words. Here's a link to the press release proper, which also includes a download of our brochure in PDF form: FileCatalyst Accelerates Transfer to Hosting.com's Cloud If you'd rather just read the content here, check it out by [...]


CriticalPast Introduces One of the World’s Largest Online Archives

Monday, June 7th, 2010

On the 3rd of June, CriticalPast announced the launch of CriticalPast.com, an absolutely astonishing archive of historic footage and photographic images: Press Release on Business Wire From the press release: CriticalPast’s library of more than 57,000 video clips is drawn from government sources and digitized, making it easy for users to search CriticalPast’s extensive collection, [...]