In light of the release of FileCatalyst Direct v3.0, I thought I'd write a few articles about the road to achieving 10Gbps speeds. It seems to me the best place to start is with the endpoint of the transfer: the storage media. Why? Before we even think about the file transfer protocol, we have to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A few weeks ago, we were contacted by the broadband team at Comcast asking if we could help them with a demo they were working on for the Cable show in Chicago. Their plan was to perform a live demonstration of their new Gbps broadband connection by downloading the entire 5th season of 30 Rock [...]
Keeping a clean server is one of the most important maintenance steps one can take to keeping your site running smooth. FileCatalyst Webmail and Workflow incorporate a few essential automated tools that will help to keep your files, logs and user accounts clean and relevant. Used together, your server should experience higher performance levels and [...]
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 [...]
Some organizations are restricted by firewall or proxy to HTTP traffic. FileCatalyst HTTP mode allows clients to connect to a FileCatalyst Server.
HotFolder is the most feature rich client application in the FileCatalyst suite. In a nutshell, it lets you watch folders on your local computer and/or FileCatalyst Server, and automatically transfer new or changed files. Until the release of version 2.8.1, FileCatalyst HotFolder had one major drawback: It couldn't identify changes to the source folder unless [...]
With the release of FileCatalyst Direct 2.8.1, there have been a number of improvments. Most of these are "under the hood," but some are quite visible to the end user. As many of you have no doubt experienced; the log viewing capabilities of FileCatalyst Server/Admin were pretty rudimentary. I say “were” because they received a [...]
