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At Your Service: Realizing the Full Value of Cloud-Native SaaS

As data-intensive industries like M&E continue to adopt cloud solutions, the simplicity and scalability of well-designed, cloud-native SaaS has proven to be a major driver. SaaS connects vendors and customers in a long-term relationship that begins with on-boarding, thrives through superb customer support and DevOps, and grows with product improvements based on feedback from customers.

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Sending and Sharing Large Files: The Benefits of File Acceleration

Businesses that regularly produce large media files or unstructured data sets often need to share them with colleagues, clients and contractors around the world, and move them to and from public cloud platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. Download this white paper from Signiant and read about how acceleration technology addresses the challenge of large file transfer.
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Signiant’s Manager+Agents Content Security Strategy

Signiant’s Manager+Agents software protects assets from threats posed by individuals, hacker groups and criminal adversaries. This white paper covers both the security services provided by Signiant and the third party validations Signiant employs.
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Hybrid Software as a Service (SaaS): The Flexible Way to Move and Manage Media

In the field of media production, media and entertainment organizations have yet to fully realize the benefits of software as a service (SaaS) when it comes to a key element of their day-to-day operations: moving the extremely large video and audio files that are the lifeblood of their business. Opportunities remain, however, for media production professionals and teams to seamlessly implement hybrid SaaS solutions into their operations. With Signiant’s hybrid SaaS Media Shuttle, enjoy the benefits of this “best of both worlds” approach: fast, easy, secure file transfers that provide users with command over the process and control of their proprietary data.
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Signiant’s Acceleration Protocol using UDP

Signiant’s acceleration protocol improves on standard IP transfers based in TCP, sending data up to 200 times faster. This white paper discusses the reasons why, including how our acceleration protocol practically eliminates latency and fully utilizes available bandwidth, for efficient and reliable large file transfers even over long distances.
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Media Shuttle’s Security White Paper

Leaders in media and entertainment depend on Signiant to move petabytes of high-value digital content every day. Our customers trust us with their intellectual property, delivery timelines, and ultimately their reputation. But mostly they simply want a solution that allows them to focus on their work, without having to track the security of it. Effective security is complicated, however — it must encompass all aspects of product development and daily operations, and requires thoughtful application of both policy and technology. This white paper provides an overview of the security architecture and service operations of Signiant’s Media Shuttle hybrid SaaS solution.
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Secure Design in a Hyperconnected World

Over the last decade, we have seen an increasing digital interconnection of people and devices globally. The move from mostly isolated to highly interconnected networks has given us the ability to quickly and simply share files and collaborate on projects with remote partners like never before. Unfortunately, the same interconnectedness that enables innovation in the industry also opens the door to cyber crime, making the security design of media software more important than ever. Download our article featured in the M&E Journal 2015 edition to learn about the 4 secure design principles that are essential today, as told by Ian Hamilton, founding member and CTO of Signiant.
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Faster, Safer, Cloudier: 3 Critical Questions in Choosing the Right Accelerated File Transfer Technology

There are two fundamental IT realities in media today: Files are getting bigger. Deadlines are getting tighter. The result is that media businesses need to rethink how they move their most valuable data from place to place—whether from studio to distributor, production house to client, or datacenter to cloud. The answer is file acceleration. Download our new guide to discover the key questions you’ll need to answer to ensure you get the right file acceleration solution for your business.
Case Studies
How Blackwater Digital Services Uses Media Shuttle to Power Transatlantic Client Workflows

“Because we have Media Shuttle, we don’t have to ship hard drives and we don’t have to wait for bandwidth to open up, we just shoot it off. It’s available within twenty-four to forty-eight hours after the content is ordered.”
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What You Need to Know to Handle Successful File Transfer in a New Media World: A buying guide by George Winslow, New Bay Media

OTT, SVOD, AR, 4K, EST, HDR, VR, 8K and a host of other new formats, platforms and business models are transforming today’s media and entertainment industry. Can your file transfer system keep up with the lightning pace of innovation? Download our new guide created in partnership with NewBay Media’s TV Technology and Broadcasting & Cable to find out what you need to know to handle successful file transfer in a new media world.
Case Studies
Creator of Worlds: How Signiant Helps Power Ubisoft’s Global Game Development

“When we produce a game, it typically involves hundreds of people, programmers, artists, game designers and testers, from multiple studios around the world.”
Case Studies
Yusari Filem: Delivering DCPs Across Malaysia with Signiant Jet

“Jet provides a tightly-curated set of the same enterprise capabilities, but scaled to the needs and budgets of smaller companies.”