Is your media company prepared to work remotely? One of the challenges faced in the media and entertainment business is that it’s not that easy to just “take your work with you.”
As production teams look to do more with fewer people on site, traditional file transfer methods present significant challenges causing broadcasters to find alternatives.
On the surface, it may seem that moving large files from one location to another is relatively simple and that a faster pipe is all you need, but it turns out there’s much more to it. Learn why a bigger pipe doesn’t lead to faster file transfers and how to get the most out of your network.
Due to the increase in file sizes, tighter deadlines and the growing complexity of workflows within the media and entertainment industry, legacy tools like rsync are just no longer the best option for automating large file transfers between locations.
Signiant is the market leader in intelligent file transfer. From its market leading products and cloud leadership to world class customer support, Signiant is the choice solution for the world’s top media companies. Download this eGuide to learn why Signiant wins over other file acceleration solutions.
If you’re looking to purchase large file transfer software for your business, it’s important to understand the market drivers that have created the need, the available options for moving media files, and some key requirements to look for.
FTP was developed in 1971, and a lot has changed in the decades since it was first created. Though the protocol has seen improvement over the years, there are some fundamental drawbacks to relying on this old technology for transferring today’s large media files.
Using consumer-oriented services like Dropbox, Box, and WeTransfer, can be a nice, user-friendly replacement to older file transfer methods such as FTP and shipping hard drives. But for a modern M&E company consistently sending and sharing mission-critical files, including massive video files, using these offerings can be both risky and restricting. Learn about the 7 key issues that make online file sharing and sending services unfit for the needs of today’s media and entertainment businesses, and how next-generation solutions offer much faster, more secure and more flexible solutions.
As a cloud-native SaaS solution, we’re able to innovate constantly with Media Shuttle and roll out new capabilities to our customers without any interruption of service. This eGuide provides an overview of ten areas where we’ve recently advanced the Media Shuttle platform.
While there are plenty of tools for getting data into the cloud, professional media requirements are particular and early cloud adopters spent millions building highly customized ingest applications. Today, that trend is shifting in favor of off-the-shelf SaaS solutions.
B2B software companies today all have their own way of explaining how their cloud solution is revolutionizing business. But not all companies mean the same thing when they use the term “cloud”. As cloud-adoption increases, it is necessary to make some clear distinctions between “cloud-native” and “cloud-washed” software. Download this eBook to better understand the important differences and why they matter. Learn about Signiant’s award-winning cloud-native SaaS products for accelerated file transfers, and how these can help your business.
Production teams are all too familiar with managing the complexities of video workflows on tight timelines. Any obstacles to transferring large video files quickly throughout the production, post-production and delivery process can lead to disaster for a project. Need a better way to send large video files in your enterprise? Download this free eGuide on 6 ways file acceleration will save your project and learn how you can control the chaos of handing off large media files.
Moving large amounts of data into cloud storage can be surprisingly difficult. One way or another, the data needs to travel over an IP network to reach the cloud – and IP transfers are slow and unreliable over long distances. The solution lies in the form of specialized acceleration technology from Signiant, which is now available as a SaaS offering specifically designed for cloud ingest. Read this eBook and learn how Signiant Flight can overcome IP network bottlenecks and accelerate the transfer of data into and out of Amazon S3 or Azure.
Cloud and SaaS 
File acceleration 
Security 
Storage independence 
FTP replacement 
Live production 
Remote collaboration 
Post production 
File Size 
Sports 
Broadcast & Cable 
Studios/ Production