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Making Sense of the Numbers: Breaking Down Our Speed Chart

Image FileCatalyst World Speed ChartWhen we attend trade shows, like the IBC Show on the horizon, our FileCatalyst World Speed Chart always garners attention and starts conversations at our booth. The question people always ask about it is, “How?” And I can’t blame them. To take a file that would usually take five hours to transfer,...
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There are Threats to FTP Servers, are You Mitigating Them?

I just finished reading an article by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee about the threats facing healthcare companies when it comes to FTP servers. I thought it would be a good idea to outline these threats, provide some thoughts, and outline some of the ways FileCatalyst addresses them. The State of FTP Servers The FBI has warned the healthcare sector that the File Transfer Protocol ...
On-Demand Webinar

Integrating FileCatalyst with APIs

Summary You may know FileCatalyst for providing Emmy® award-winning file transfer solutions that are used across a wide range of industries, but you may not know that FileCatalyst also provides well-documented APIs that give access to every method needed to establish a connection to a FileCatalyst Server for accelerated file transfers. What & How In this webinar FileCatalyst...
On-Demand Webinar

Fast File Transfers for HPC Workflows

Summary Join FileCatalyst’s Co-Founder & President, John Tkaczewski, as he shows attendees how FileCatalyst’s patented UDP-based protocol can accelerate the movement of large data sets for HPC workflows across various industries. What & How High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI and Cloud Computing has been taking the tech world by storm; these new advancements and...
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Using FileCatalyst to Remedy Healthcare IT Issues

When it comes to healthcare, file transfers aren’t something to be left to Dropbox or FTP email attachments. The requirements are many; files must remain confidential, visible, and secure – every time. Achieving this is becoming ever more challenging as the sheer size and volume of file transfers grow with every year. I came across an interesting article titled “7 File Transfer...
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Globus Toolkit to End Support after 20 Years

  Image The Globus Toolkit has been an open source project since its inception, allowing the community to provide enhancements that have made it what it is today. But after a nearly 20-year run as what many see as the benchmark of grid computing, the Globus team at the University of Chicago will no longer support the Globus Toolkit. ...
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From the Magnetic Drum to the Cloud - A Brief History of Data Storage

Image In my earlier blog post, “A Day In Data: How Much Data We Generate and Consume in a Day” I examined the common data-related tasks and the amounts of data these tasks generate and consume in a day. When I finished my research, I was blown away by some of the figures I found. Did you know that 2.9 million emails are sent every...
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How to Achieve Fast Uploads to Cloud Storage

We see a lot of confusion among IT professionals about the pros/cons of cloud-based object storage like Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob. There tends to be a general lack of awareness regarding the smaller players, like Backblaze B2 and Wasabi for instance, and their benefits. The most confusion, however, revolves around migrating data to these various cloud storage solutions...
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A Day In Data: How Much Data We Generate and Consume in a Day

Image I‘ve been thinking about the amount of data created and consumed in a single day, and it got me curious to look into the figures. I found the results very interesting – so I thought I would make an infographic to visualize my findings. I decided to focus on the more personal, everyday tasks most people perform in a day, such as...
Case Study

FileCatalyst & The United Nations

Read the case study to learn how FileCatalyst addressed The United Nations' transfer speed issues, while adding further reliability and security.
Case Study

FileCatalyst & TubiTV

Traditionally, sending a file this size could take hours, depending on the geographic location, which is unacceptable for TubiTV, who receives numerous files daily. To meet the needs of their clients, TubiTV also needed to ensure that the solution was user-friendly, secure and simple to implement. Additionally, the solution had to be cost-effective.
On-Demand Webinar

Partner Spotlight – Empress & FileCatalyst

Summary This webinar looks at FileCatalyst’s Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partnership with Empress, provider of the powerful and flexible web-based system, eMAM, used for Media Asset Management (MAM) workflows. This video gives users an overview of the FileCatalyst eMAM™ integration that enables accelerated fast file transfers within the eMAM™ platform. It also educates...
On-Demand Webinar

Introducing the FileCatalyst | Forscene Integration

Summary The FileCatalyst and Forbidden Technologies joint webinar, Hosted by Elton Carneiro, FileCatalyst’s Director of Strategic Partnerships & Jason Cowan, Forbidden Technologies’ Director of Business Development, shows viewers how FileCatalyst integrates with Forscene. Before going into the demo, the webinar also includes corporate overviews of both FileCatalyst and...
On-Demand Webinar

Leveraging the FileCatalyst | Interra Systems’ BATON Integration

Summary In this webinar, Elton Carneiro, FileCatalyst’s Director of Strategic Partnerships & Cloud Services, and Interra Systems’ Product Specialist, Praney Mahajan, discuss how FileCatalyst’s integration into Interra Systems’ Quality Control (QC) solution, BATON, to provide fast file transfer speeds into QC workflows for enhanced productivity and shortened delivery times. ...
On-Demand Webinar

LiveU & FileCatalyst – Reliability on the Go!

Summary: You may have heard of LiveU’s DataBridge, which allows broadcasters and other field crews enjoy the highest bandwidth and availability for wireless broadband on-the-go. But, did you know that FileCatalyst integrates with DataBridge to provide our accelerated file transfer technology? This webinar, hosted by FileCatalyst’s Director of Strategic Partnerships & Cloud...
On-Demand Webinar

Sochi Winter Games Wrap Up

Summary In this joint webinar, Co-Founder and CEO Chris Baliey sits down with Co-Founder and President John Tkaczewski to look back at the role we played in the production of the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Chris and john discus FileCatalyst’s core fast file transfer technology, live “at home” production workflows, the challenges associated with live sports production, the...
On-Demand Webinar

Accelerating File Transfers in Live Sports Production

Summary Producing live sporting event coverage has been, and continues to be, a challenging proposition for broadcasters especially with 4K resolution becoming commonplace, 8K on the near horizon and the continuing adoption of Virtual Reality (VR). With multiple cameras producing massive video files, moving all the uncompressed files for in-studio editing can be extremely...