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Last week, the FileCatalyst Team attended NAB Show in Las Vegas. This was a great show with many new, exciting technologies announced (including our own new FileCatalyst Central and FileCatalyst Direct releases) breathing new life into the constantly evolving digital media industry. Along with showcasing our latest FileCatalyst Central and FileCatalyst Direct releases offering extended [...]

Last year, the FileCatalyst team was approached with an interesting proposition. A PhD researcher from the Anhalt University, Dmitry Kachan, wanted to test multiple transfer solutions from competing vendors as part of his work. He would take a copy of our software, run some tests to see how it performed under various network conditions, and [...]

Sending media files can be challenging: FTP is slow and unreliable, attachment size limits often prevent sending via email and shipping on physical storage solutions is costly and can take days to deliver. The issues associated with transferring media files including security, reliability, efficient workflow integration, and many others. But the overriding issue is the [...]

“Big data” and “cloud storage” are some of 2013’s biggest tech buzzwords, and with good reason. Data is growing exponentially, and we need a place to store it. Cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure provide scalable, cost effective ways to store and access your data. However, you must first get [...]

Ever run into issues sending large media files via email? The answer is probably yes, especially if you work in a field which requires the transfer of large format video or audio files on a daily basis. While email is great for many types of workplace communications, file size limitations (usually around 10 to 25MB) [...]

In FileCatalyst Workflow and Webmail, admins have the option to create group folders, allowing users to share files and transactions with each other. However, admins may not want all users in the group to have the same level of access to those files. Based on organizational roles and responsibilities, certain users may only be permitted [...]

Aberdeen's AberFast solution enables the quick sharing of files across the globe with their cloud-based file delivery and transcoding solution. Helping to give the digital delivery system its extra oomph in file transfer speed is an integration with FileCatalyst UDP-based technology. The partnership provides clients operating in the broadcast industry a one-stop solution to upload, [...]

While we could all use faster file transfer, there are certain situations in which accelerated file transfer can yield exceptional benefits. The following infographic can help determine if you are a good candidate for implementing accelerated file transfer technology:

When FileCatalyst first introduced congestion control in 2006 (or v1.5 of the software), we decided to have the protocol “play nice” on networks. To a network administrator, this meant that we never oversaturated their network when they ran their first UDP transfer. It also meant that with HotFolder's default settings, transfers would begin at 384 [...]