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Next week the FileCatalyst Team will be heading to Las Vegas for the always entertaining and informative NAB Show. Bringing together approximately 100,000 digital media professionals the NAB Show is the essential industry event for creative inspiration and next-generation technologies to help breathe new life into content. The FileCatalyst Team will be at Booth SL13013 [...]

The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) is an industry-funded non-profit partnership that advocates and promotes the many benefits associated with digital production for broadcast television in the UK. The partnership also leads the standardization of technical and metadata requirements within the UK broadcast industry aiming to simplify and optimize all stages of digital production distributed via [...]

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 [...]

Until now FileCatalyst users have been “jailed” in their home directory. This was designed as a security feature to prevent users from browsing the file system. Users could only access files that were found within their sandbox, regardless of the underlying operating system. The flip side to the security this feature was the tight restriction [...]

Managed file transfer (MFT) solutions have been around for years, but as of late we’ve noticed their growing presence in enterprise IT. The obvious question is why, but we’d like to ask instead why not? MFT provides tracking, reliability, security to file transfers while simplifying and streamlining important IT processes. With increased efficiency and reduced [...]

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, [...]

"Big data" is the latest buzz word among the IT community. There is much talk about analyzing data to save money and improve efficiency. In fact, there is so much money involved in big data that IBM’s VP of innovation, Bernard Meyerson, referred to big data as the "new oil" at the recent GTEC conference. [...]

In the world of file transfer acceleration, there are multiple approaches using both WAN Optimization appliances or pure software solutions like FileCatalyst. Hardware sometimes give the impression of perceived value; there is a tangibility that you just don't get with software. But can a hardware solution on its own really replace software for file transfer [...]