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| GeneralMeet Dennis Hennessey! Signiant’s new Director of Customer Success and Chili Aficionado
We recently hired Dennis Hennessey as our new Director of Customer Success, and wanted to show him off a bit. While we’ve always had several avenues for getting feedback from our customers, Dennis brings a unique passion and approach that has won him something of a following in the CSM (customer success managers) community. -
| GeneralIan Hamilton on Broadcast Bridge: What is UDP acceleration?
An article on advances in file transfer protocols might not be typical reading for most production and broadcast professionals. However, the Broadcast Bridge website made good on their promise of “Connecting IT to Broadcast” with last week’s post by Signiant CTO Ian Hamilton. -
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Three Ways Media Shuttle’s Auto Delivery Streamlines Large-Scale File Transfers
Auto Delivery allows unattended file delivery through a native application running on your computer. It removes the need to check for new content and adds the ability to configure folders for automatic upload or download. -
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TV Technology on SaaS and the future of the media facility
Kovalick points to the time it takes to transfer large files into the cloud as one of the biggest “shortfalls” to SaaS adoption in media. “For media apps, constrained access bandwidth poses the biggest problem (i.e. 4K editing). Usually the media is first uploaded to the server location, which could take days for some workloads,” -
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Moving Fast with Media Shuttle Infographic: Looking Back on 3 Years
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been three years since we released Media Shuttle. It was – and is – a significant product innovation for Signiant as a whole new way for people to take advantage of our file acceleration technology. Not only is it our first SaaS solution, it was also the first SaaS solution on the market for quickly moving large content files. Check out this infographic summing up three years of Media Shuttle. -
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You Wouldn’t Take a Plane Around the Block: Three times to use Flight for S3 and Azure transfers
While Flight always provides additional security and management features to cloud storage subscriptions, it does not always improve performance compared to cloud vendor’s options for data ingest and download. Here are three times when it really does: -
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Women’s World Cup 2015: Testing ground for the next generation of television
Japanese Company NHK has been developing 8K since 1995, including everything from cameras and mics to broadcast systems and receivers. The Women’s World Cup in Canada is one of its first large-scale testing grounds. NHK plans to continue the experiment at next year’s Super Bowl and Summer Olympics in preparation for full broadcast of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. -
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Fox Sports’ U.S. Open Coverage Uses Drones and Signiant Fast File Transfer
Fox débuted it’s first coverage of the U.S. Open last weekend. And while they’ve received some mixed reviews, no one is arguing about their innovative technological approach to showcasing the full experience of professional golf, from drones to capture the course’s expansive scenes to hole mics to record the player’s most tense moments. -
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Librarians Think Differently: Why we should all thank the Library of Congress
Over the years, many of us at Signiant have come to greatly appreciate the work being done at The Library of Congress. With James H. Billington’s recent announcement of his pending retirement after 30 years as the Librarian of Congress, I wanted to express my gratitude for the utterly important and challenging mission they’ve undertaken as historians and librarians over the past several decades. The Library of Congress has the largest archive of knowledge in the world. -
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More Than Just a Pretty Portal: Customization in Shuttle helps build trust
With only a couple of clicks, portal administrators can change colors, add background graphics, move the form box, and create a fully branded web page to send and share content. And, because many of our customers are highly adept at high resolution imagery, we’ve seen some truly impressive portals.
