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AI Across Industries – Where We Are, Where We’re Going

Thu, 10/18/2018
HAL 9000 might be closer, more useful and friendlier than we think. Artificial Intelligence (AI) might not be here in a fully realized form yet, but it’s already disrupting a lot of industries that we work in. As our customers discuss, question and evaluate the ways they can leverage AI to help streamline their workflows, I thought that I’d share some of the ways industry...
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IP-Based Workflows – The Paradigm is Shifting, are You on Board?

Tue, 10/16/2018
Since returning from IBC 2018, I have been thinking about IP-based workflows and the great discussions we had about this emerging trend at our booth. While IP-based workflows are seeing increased adoption and bringing new opportunities, there are also challenges ahead. IP-based workflows aren’t exactly new, but adoption has greatly increased in the media space as of late....
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Chris Speaks at IABM: How Far Can We Go With The Cloud?

Wed, 09/26/2018
This year was another successful IBC for FileCatalyst, and we thank everyone who visited us. Our booth was bustling with activity; from people asking questions about how our fast file transfer solutions can fit in their workflow to people engaged with our in-depth demos that walked them through the user experience firsthand. Big thanks to every attendee that stopped by our...
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Case Study

Express Media Group

Profile Express Media Group, a part of At Television Media Networks, has a variety of distribution formats including paper, electronic media and digital news delivery. Being under one group, they rely on 12 different sites that combine these products together to provide 3 electronic channels, 3 published papers with editions in 12 different cities and 2 digital news platforms....
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FileCatalyst & IO Interactive

Read to learn how IO Interactive has maximized their bandwidth and substantially boosted productivity using FileCatalyst.
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Making Sense of the Numbers: Breaking Down Our Speed Chart

Thu, 09/06/2018
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?

Fri, 08/10/2018
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 ...
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Using FileCatalyst to Remedy Healthcare IT Issues

Thu, 07/19/2018
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

Fri, 07/06/2018
  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

Tue, 06/19/2018
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

Mon, 06/11/2018
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

Fri, 06/01/2018
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...
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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.
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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.
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FileCatalyst & MMTV

Before deploying FileCatalyst, MM TV reporters shipped their media assets to headquarters either physically via physical storage or electronically via email, FTP and TCP. The time it took to deliver content became a major bottleneck in their workflow and significantly hindered their overall productivity. Read on to learn how FileCatalyst was utilized to fix this bottleneck.
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FileCatalyst & Evirx

While each failed file transfer method had its issues, Evirx encountered similar problems with each assessment: video uploads were slow and unreliable, files were often too large to transfer, user interfaces were unintuitive and difficult to navigate, and the solutions couldn’t integrate into Evirx’s existing web-based solution. Read on to learn how FileCatalyst Direct was deployed to help solve these problems.
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