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  • A globe with glowing, colored lines encircling it as well as white lines going from major cities to other cities.

    How Discovery Moves Assets (and Producers) into the Cloud

    Learn how the Discovery Communications technology team innovated its video processing by moving its systems to the cloud.
    By Jim Ball Read "How Discovery Moves Assets (and Producers) into the Cloud" post
  • The words where are your files moving? on a map of the world with the U.S. and Europe are colored green and orange.

    Speeding is Believing

    After all you’ve read about our solutions, maybe the one thing you’re still wondering about is just how fast are Signiant file transfers, really?
    By Jim Ball Read "Speeding is Believing" post
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    Signiant Executives Explain – Part 2: The Signiant Product Portfolio

    Get all the answers and learn the ins and outs of Signiant’s complete accelerated file transfer portfolio in part two of our Signiant Executives Explain video series.
    By Jim Ball Read "Signiant Executives Explain – Part 2: The Signiant Product Portfolio" post
  • People talking to each other at the Signiant booth at a conference.

    Larger files sizes, the move to the cloud and Signiant product updates were the news at IBC 2016

    Take a look at this IBC Daily video by TVBEurope, featuring Greg Hoskin, managing director of Signiant’s sales in EMEA and Asia-Pacific, with new ways to store assets and our other product line news.
    By Jim Ball Read "Larger files sizes, the move to the cloud and Signiant product updates were the news at IBC 2016" post
  • A whole bunch of old fashioned locks and keys.

    Escape Storage Lock-In For Your Accelerated File Transfers

    Over the past year, a new trend has been booming in the entertainment world. And though it’s gained a foothold in Amsterdam, I doubt we’ll see it anywhere in the exhibit halls at IBC.
    By Jim Ball Read "Escape Storage Lock-In For Your Accelerated File Transfers" post
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    Michael Ball from Accord Productions talks about the Power of Portals. See the video interview.

    One of our Media Shuttle power users, Michael Ball of Accord Productions, appeared in an interview with RedShark News. In the video, he makes the case that technologies like Media Shuttle allow smaller production companies to act and work much larger than they are.
    By Jim Ball Read "Michael Ball from Accord Productions talks about the Power of Portals. See the video interview." post
  • 4 icons of a paper with the corner folded down. Each paper is much smaller than the one before.

    Signiant Executives Explain – Part 1: An Overview of Signiant

    We constantly talk with M&E industry professionals to uncover their challenges with extreme file transfers. Now in our “Signiant Executives Explain” video series, you can peek behind the curtain on what goes into our technology platform.
    By Jim Ball Read "Signiant Executives Explain – Part 1: An Overview of Signiant" post
  • The side of a warehouse painted with the words Atlanta Made.

    Simplicity in sending media helps support Atlanta’s surge in production

    An influx of wildly popular episodic television productions such as The Walking Dead and The Vampire Diaries has invaded the state of Georgia. As a result, Atlanta-based creative post-production house Crawford Media Services has found its client base surging
    By Jim Ball Read "Simplicity in sending media helps support Atlanta’s surge in production" post
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    A Year of Acceleration – and Collaboration

    Signiant and Talon form an alliance to help streamline cloud storage consolidation. Together the companies’ technology allow globally distributed data to be quickly and securely migrated to a central cloud storage and then made available as a single, consistent storage repository to all users across the globe.
    By Jim Ball Read "A Year of Acceleration – and Collaboration" post
  • A time lapse of cars on a highway so it looks like streaks of light.

    Lost in Transit

    Signed, sealed, and… In the 90s, as director of production at a commercial post house, I felt a vague sense of dread whenever a project wrapped up and we shipped our “baby” – the final production – out to the different TV stations that were going to air it. Then sometimes, the worst would happen and the masterpiece we had just labored over for a month had gone missing.
    By Jim Ball Read "Lost in Transit" post
  • People on 6th street in Austin Texas during South by Southwest.

    Media and Tech Take the Stage at SXSW

    The festival promises another exciting year of panels and presentations by industry leaders, and live music by bands from all over the world.
    By Jim Ball Read "Media and Tech Take the Stage at SXSW" post