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Media Shuttle Makes Movie History »

The rolling thunder of Media Shuttle successes is making it more than a little difficult to keep track some days! A recent win was Venture 3D using Media Shuttle to move massive files between LA and Asia for the production of Stephen Chow’s latest film. Getting the film to market during the “Golden Week” around Chinese New Year was crucial to box office success, and Media Shuttle performed flawlessly in a starring role. The 3D film “Journey to the West” is now set to break box office records. Continue reading

Five Reasons to Say Goodbye to FTP »

Do you wait hours for your large files to be shared with colleagues and clients? Have you ever struggled to use an FTP client? Do you worry about what has happened to your files after sending them? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then chances are that you’ve had to deal with an outdated FTP system. Here are five good reasons to say goodbye to our outdated FTP system. Continue reading

It’s 2:00 am. Do you know where your files are? »

The consumerization of IT has resulted in the proliferation of unmanaged, non-IT issued devices used to access and share corporate digital assets. We are all now 3+ device owning, information hungry, data consumers and sharers. And cloud storage redux (Dropbox et al. is arguably cloud storage 2.0 with companies such Storage Networks having pioneered the first phase in the 90′s) is making it amazingly easy to share files to/from these devices –often, too easy, in fact. Continue reading

Media Shuttle Comes to the Rescue of Animated Superhero TV Show »

“With Media Shuttle, we have the ease of use and flexibility of a cloud-based solution, but files arrive directly on a server sitting on our premises, which cuts delivery time in half compared to other products on the market,” said George Rizkallah, founder and CEO of The Product Factory, which positions itself as ‘a small facility with huge ability.’ “As a subscription-based solution, Media Shuttle also lets us avoid multi-year contracts and sizable capital outlays. After working for years with animation customers that routinely send us large digital files using Signiant’s solutions, it’s a delight to be able to access all of the key capabilities of Signiant in an affordable, easy to use tool like Media Shuttle.” Continue reading

Tech Spotlight with Steve Gibson »

This month’s Tech Spotlight shines on Steve Gibson, our new Asia-Pacific technical director. You could say that Steve ‘grew up’ at Signiant, having first joined the company as an engineering student. As a member of our Ottawa-based dev team for more than five years, Steve has been at the forefront of many of the company’s technical innovations, including our new Media Shuttle desktop file transfer solution. We recently sat down with Steve to get a perspective on his big move to Singapore, and his new role working with customers and partners in Asia. Continue reading