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| BlogWhy We Love Our Customers: 2018 Report
This year, I wanted to reflect on the trail blazers, the early adopters of file acceleration technologies that have helped shape global content ingest and distribution for Media & Entertainment. In doing so, they have and are continuing to pave the way for other industries with growing file sizes that need to be transferred quickly and securely over public and private IP networks. -
| BlogSenior Video Editor at CBN Praises Media Shuttle
Michael Trauffer, Senior Video Editor & Post Production System Administrator at the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), wrote a great comment on one of our LinkedIn posts about their positive experience integrating Media Shuttle into their global distribution workflow. CBN is a brand new customer and thrilled by Michael’s feedback, we contacted him to learn more. -
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Isn’t it Time to Think of People First and Not Policies and Technology?
Security and simplicity are often viewed as opposing forces. One widely held belief codified in the IS policies of most organizations is that for a system to be secure, people must use complex passwords that are changed frequently. But this doesn’t have to be “just the way it is”! -
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Please Welcome Signiant’s New Field Representatives
In the spirit of a new and successful year at Signiant, we are pleased to officially welcome two great additions to the team, Strategic Accounts Directors, Chris Soresi and Tom Bush! -
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Move Even Faster With Auto Delivery
Media Shuttle’s most popular add-on feature, Auto Delivery, eliminates the need for end users to manually initiate uploads or downloads of new content and brings even more speed and efficiency to day-to-day operations. -
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File Transfer Horror Stories
Some of the horrors companies experience when trying to move large video files during production and distribution might be scarier than Pennywise. From Frankenstein FTPs to Bandwidth Boogeymen, scroll through the many villains lurking in the dark corners of media file transfers. -
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App-less Transfers: A new option in Media Shuttle for supporting our customers’ entire ecosystems
In some highly regulated industries, companies are often operating under locked down corporate IT environments. Signiant’s new app-less transfer option for Media Shuttle allows them to extend the solution’s adoption across their entire media ecosystems when installing software is not an option. System administrators can maintain full control and visibility of every transfer, while all end users enjoy a simple, uniform experience. -
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Media Shuttle’s Storage Independence – Customers Embrace the Choices
When talking about the cloud it is always easy to confuse hype with reality. Cloud-adoption within the M&E industry remains uneven, particularly when it comes to content storage and processing. That’s why Media Shuttle allows customers to have either cloud storage, on-premises storage, or a mix of both. -
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October 1st, 2017 – a Landmark Day in the Migration to File-based Delivery in the UK
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP), an industry organization comprising UK broadcasters BBC, BT Sport, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, Sky and UKTV, recently announced that as of October 1st its members will no longer accept delivery of programs on videotape. This is a real watershed moment in the transition from videotape to files as the primary medium for moving video content across the M&E supply chain. -
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Streaming to the Cloud with Flight, One of Many New Flight Capabilities
Signiant CTO Ian Hamilton recently wrote an article about the challenges of economically getting high-quality contribution video feeds from remote events back to a permanent facility for, in this case, live processing and delivery to a CDN for live streaming to consumers. This requires a tool – such as Signiant Flight, capable of overcoming the issues of latency and packet loss. Here’s an update on some of Flight’s new features and benefits and a look at some of its use cases.
