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  • The wing of a plane over water with the sun shining on it.
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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:
    By Meg Cater Read "You Wouldn’t Take a Plane Around the Block: Three times to use Flight for S3 and Azure transfers" post
  • Women playing soccer at the FIFA women's world cup 2021.
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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.
    By Meg Cater Read "Women’s World Cup 2015: Testing ground for the next generation of television" post
  • A drone hovering in a blue sky.
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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.
    By Meg Cater Read "Fox Sports’ U.S. Open Coverage Uses Drones and Signiant Fast File Transfer" post
  • The inside of the library of Congress.
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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.
    By Rick Clarkson Read "Librarians Think Differently: Why we should all thank the Library of Congress" post
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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.
    By Jon Finegold Read "More Than Just a Pretty Portal: Customization in Shuttle helps build trust" post
  • A Stargate studios film stage with a huge green screen and film makers setting up.
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    Stargate Studios highlights Media Shuttle on postPerspective

    Stargate Studios is a really impressive company, continuing to be successful after 25 years and having offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Vancouver, Toronto, Mexico City, London, Berlin, Cologne, Malta and Dubai. When asked how they’ve stayed in the game so long, Frankel shared advice about constantly reinventing yourself, your process and the tools you use.
    By Meg Cater Read "Stargate Studios highlights Media Shuttle on postPerspective" post
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    The Biggest Barrier to Big Data Analytics with Hadoop

    The biggest barrier to big data analysis with Hadoop is often getting data to a place where it’s accessible for analysis in the first place. Last week, our CTO Ian Hamilton addressed the topic in some depth for Data Informed, an online publication covering big data and analytics for business and IT professionals.
    By Meg Cater Read "The Biggest Barrier to Big Data Analytics with Hadoop" post
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    Google starts to wave goodbye to plug-ins

    Unfortunately, with the recent release of Chrome version 42, Google has begun the process of discontinuing support for plug-ins. This change will impact all Media Shuttle, Media Exchange and Transfer API users that are using Chrome version 42+.
    By Rick Clarkson Read "Google starts to wave goodbye to plug-ins" post
  • The New York City skyline.
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    Harbor Picture Company gives New York film production a new edge

    Over the past decade, New York has been slowly gaining on Los Angeles in terms of local film and television production. Mostly due to the Empire State Film Production Tax Credit launched in 2004, New York reported record numbers of local film projects in both 2013 and 2014, while Los Angeles experienced a slowdown. Yet, despite its iconic cityscape and talented artists, NYC still has a ways to go before catching up.
    By Meg Cater Read "Harbor Picture Company gives New York film production a new edge" post
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    The sexiest story in the cloud is connected cows, and other takeaways from Microsoft Build

    Microsoft’s annual conference for developers, Microsoft Build, has traditionally been very much for Microsoft developers. However, the last few years have seen the conference — and the corporation — taking a much more open approach. Two of the Signiant executive team were in San Francisco for last week’s version and brought back some fresh excitement for the direction Microsoft is taking under the leadership of Satya Nadella.
    By Meg Cater Read "The sexiest story in the cloud is connected cows, and other takeaways from Microsoft Build" post