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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 & 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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FileCatalyst & NICE Software

Learn how, using FileCatalyst, EnginFrame’s client organizations were able to recoup lost time by gaining rapid access to their valuable data, applications, and resources.
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FileCatalyst & NBC Sports Group at Sochi 2014

Learn how, with the help of FileCatalyst, NBC Sports Group broke new ground in live sports production by overcoming the limits of concurrent transfers and solving the problems associated with dynamically changing MXF files.
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The GDPR is Coming… What’s it Mean to You?

Thu, 01/25/2018
There is a new wave of regulation coming in the form of the European Union Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR). These provisions and regulations have been in development over the last four years, and starting May 25th, 2018; it will begin to be enforced. After that date, substantial fines will be imposed on those who don’t comply with new regulations. Before we dive into what...
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Uploading Files Into Azure Blob Storage at Multi-Gigabit Speeds

Wed, 11/29/2017
Moving data into cloud storage can present a number of challenges for organizations across all industries. Some of these challenges include finding a tool that can simplify the process and a solution that can move the data to the cloud as fast as possible. This blog will examine two methods used to transfer files into Microsoft Azure Blob storage: using Microsoft’s tool AzCopy...
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A Reflection on NAB: Media Industry Trends, Challenges and How the Industry is Responding

Tue, 05/30/2017
Image After getting back from the NAB show this year, I have been thinking about some of the media industry trends that present changes, as well as the opportunities. The industry as a whole has been in a state of change: the content itself is rapidly becoming larger, workflows are changing and becoming more dispersed, the way we...
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TransferAgent Brings the Power of Filecatalyst to the Simplicity of a Web Browser

Tue, 04/25/2017
I just finished watching a webinar our president, John Tkaczewski, gave on the new version 4.9.9 of FileCatalyst Workflow and it was a great learning experience. He gave an in-depth overview of TransferAgent and outlined its features past and new. It was really interesting stuff, so I thought I would write a blog article that outlines some of these new features. Consider this a...
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SSL and file transfers, the marriage of all marriages

Thu, 03/30/2017
The support team here at FileCatalyst team polled our customers who are using FileCatalyst Central v3.6 and asked what type of improvements they would like to see in our next release of Central. Security was a topic of interest to our customers, and they were asking us about the things we are doing in terms of security. With this in mind, we have taken steps with SSL that has...
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Moving Big Data in the Oil & Gas Industry

Mon, 10/17/2016
Did you know it takes over $100 million to drill a deep-water well? Holding true to the cliched phrase oil and gas companies know all too well: it takes money to make money. The deep digging associated with the oil and gas industry requires equally deep pockets. When it comes to making the big business decisions required in the oil and gas industry, major companies like Shell,...
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How To: Change Emulation Mode in Internet Explorer to Load TransferAgent Properly

Fri, 07/15/2016
Any FileCatalyst application that previously used embedded Java applets in a browser has a migration path to FileCatalyst TransferAgent. Moving forward with this solution, we have been able to bring functionality of this product Google Chrome v42 and newer. Firefox v40 and newer. Internet Explorer v10 and newer. In Internet Explorer, users have found that the...
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Bringing content to life with Aframe

Wed, 07/06/2016
If you’ve ever tried to send a large video file, you know what a time consuming process it can be. For the production pros using Aframe – the world’s most powerful video collaboration platform – they need to transfer thousands of videos every day. Imagine how long this would take using standard FTP. Image Image ...
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Aframe: Providing Positive Experiences Through Accelerated File Transfers

Whether for television, film, news, sports, commercials, or corporate, global collaborators have, in the past, shared their production video files one by one over HTTP, or sent files through FTP using a third party client (Cyberduck, Filezilla, etc.). Read on to learn how FileCatalyst allowed data structures to be preserved, and data is encrypted in transit using the AES 128-bit standard, and this transfer is completed in excellent time.
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