Katie Staveley

Signiant today announced extensions to the company’s cloud platform and offered insight into the underlying technical innovations that led to its development. At the International Broadcast Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam September 11-16, 2014, the company will be demonstrating two award-winning products based on this platform: Media Shuttle and Signiant Flight.

Signiant today announced it was named a winner of the 2014 Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering. Signiant’s innovations in secure accelerated file movements over IP (including the internet) earned the company this prestigious award, which honors excellence in engineering creativity. Signiant is one of a select few companies to be honored with an Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering, and was chosen by dozens of industry experts and peers.

We've teamed up with 66 other collaborating organizations to help spread the word about the 4th Annual Future of Cloud Computing survey which is focused on determining the drivers and inhibitors to cloud adoption. It will shed light on industry trends such as what applications are moving to the cloud, the reasons for this migration and the competitive implications for organizations to think strategically about cloud computing.

Last week at NAB I participated in a panel discussion titled “why managing content in the cloud matters.” I joined Moderator Tom Ohanian from Cisco and panelists from Civolution and Gorilla Technology Group to discuss the impact cloud technology is having on the media and entertainment industry, and the factors that organizations should consider when selecting cloud solutions.

To be a leader in the cloud arena, you need to have a clear definition of what cloud technology means to you, and your approach to cloud computing. I call this the “Cloud Credo.” Mine is built on three key points: content should be free; SaaS is here to stay; and, “design for the cloud” is worth the effort. I’ll provide details on the first two ideas here -- and stay tuned for more thoughts on design for the cloud in another post!

Signiant, a supplier of large (100GB and up) file transfer services to media companies, has launched a new product it calls Flight to send the files to Amazon or Azure instead. Flight transfers files into and out of Amazon’s S3 and Microsoft’s Azure cloud storage. Because of this, Signiant says: “Workflows that require fast exchange of files to and from cloud storage, including active archiving, media processing and big data analysis, can now be implemented much more easily and cost-effectively.”

Signiant today disclosed key growth metrics for 2013 and offered further insight into the Company’s recent market momentum. Executives report a 65 percent increase in customer count and a 46 percent increase in worldwide employment, attributable to rapid adoption of Signiant’s next-generation hybrid SaaS solution and clear recognition of the Company’s leadership position in bringing the benefits of cloud technology to the media industry.

We have released version 10.6 of Managers+Agents, which includes some enhancements that I think you’ll find very useful. This blog highlights two of those enhancements available in this release including stateful workflow restarts and RESTful FIMS transfer service interface.

To be a leader in the cloud arena, you need to have a clear definition of what cloud technology means to you, and your approach to cloud computing. I call this the “Cloud Credo.” Mine is built on three key points: content should be free; SaaS is here to stay; and, “design for the cloud” is worth the effort. I’ll provide details on the first two ideas here -- and stay tuned for more thoughts on design for the cloud in another post!

MTI Film, a Hollywood-based full service post-production and film restoration facility, is using Signiant’s Media Shuttle™ to automate the daily exchange of some of TV’s most popular episodics with its global production partners.