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    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
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    New Cars and Faster Horses

    No matter how much money companies have invested in pieced-together solutions to enhance it, FTP is becoming more and more outdated, difficult to update, and expensive to support – and businesses are realizing it’s time to move on.
    By Rick Clarkson Read "New Cars and Faster Horses" post
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    Good Things Come in Threes

    Dave North, our Director of DevOps, walks through all three of Media Shuttle’s user interfaces and shows how everyone on the team can get a tailored view that’s made explicitly for the jobs they need to get done.
    By Katie McKay Read "Good Things Come in Threes" post
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    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
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    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
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    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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    Get Your Fix of Fast Transfers

    In the accelerated file transfer world, it’s likely we’ve witnessed this phenomenon more than most technologies. Because for file transfer, the “old way” goes back 45 years to the creation of FTP.
    By Rick Clarkson Read "Get Your Fix of Fast 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
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    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