Simplify Automated File Transfers

Automating repetitive file transfers boosts efficiency, but legacy tools are costly, complex and burdensome for IT administrators. Discover how the Signiant Platform overcomes these costs and complexities to enhance efficiency and scalability.

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Pitfalls Associated with Automated File Transfers

Automated file transfer systems are not without pitfalls. Issues related to costs, performance and scalability often hinder these tools from achieving seamless automation. Which of these challenges have you experienced?

High Costs of Automation

Automated file transfer solutions can be prohibitively expensive and unnecessarily complex, which adds additional hidden costs to manage. The total cost of ownership of legacy software includes expensive IT resources to keep software up-to-date and secure. Modern solutions should be easy to deploy, operate, use and include auto-updates and 24×7 monitoring.

Hidden Costs of “Free” Tools

“Free” transfer tools like rsync or scripted FTP can be configured for automated file transfer but come with hidden costs. They are IT admin intensive to configure, monitor and keep compliant. Old scripts become challenging to maintain and often create security risks. These tools lack acceleration and often require digging through log files or additional third-party software to monitor transfers or debug issues. They are far from free to operate.

Storage Connectivity Issues

In today’s diverse storage landscape, businesses need the ability to seamlessly connect to various storage options, across complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments, for automated file movement. Without storage-agnostic automated file transfer solutions, business connections become difficult and require additional tools to bridge the gap. This can increase costs and hamper operational efficiency and responsiveness to new business needs.

Limited Automation

If constant manual adjustments and labor-intensive interventions are required, a file system isn’t truly automated. True automation goes beyond merely moving the files — it means automating operational tasks like job triggers, adjustable bandwidth allocation and scheduled transfers that are easy to set up and manage. This approach maximizes staff and operational hours, optimizes infrastructure utilization and manages bandwidth priorities effectively, ensuring robust performance and cost-effectiveness.

The Problem of Scalability

Many file transfer tools fail to scale alongside your business, struggling to handle increasing data volumes and user demands, which leads to performance bottlenecks. Tools without scale-out architecture lack the ability to automatically adjust resources as needed, resulting in frequent downtime, higher costs and the need for manual intervention. This disrupts continuous data movement, hampers availability and ultimately impedes business growth.

Inter-company Automation

It’s already challenging to automate file movement between your own storage locations, but when you add a large partner ecosystem, the complexity grows exponentially. In media, companies need easy ways to automate content exchange between their own locations, the cloud and with partners. Having this all under one platform with centralized visibility and control is key to operating at scale.

The Signiant Platform Enables Simple, Yet Powerful Automated File Transfers

Simple Transfers

Simple, Efficient Transfers

Signiant offers a streamlined, scalable platform that focuses on essential features for automated file transfers. Unlike bulky, expensive solutions with unnecessary complexity, Signiant’s user-friendly platform integrates effortlessly into existing workflows quickly and easily. Signiant’s approach delivers enterprise-grade automated file transfer solutions tailored to businesses of all sizes, providing efficiency, cost-effectiveness and ease of use.

Intelligent Transfer

Intelligent File Transfer

Signiant’s patented intelligent file transport leverages metadata to optimize the transfer process, adapting dynamically to provide fast and seamless access to media assets across any IP network. This approach ensures efficient and reliable transfers by adjusting to varying network conditions and utilizing advanced transport protocols to maintain high performance and security.

Purpose-Built

Built-for-Purpose

The Signiant Platform automates content and data movement for recurring, time-critical transfers involving large files over long distances, perfect for companies moving content between multiple locations and with partners. Building on Signiant’s legacy as a trusted inter-company broker, the platform offers a next-generation mechanism for secure data exchange managed through its web interface. As media companies increasingly move workflows to the cloud, it facilitates the automation of content movement to, from and between cloud storage endpoints with unmatched speed, reliability and security.

Storage

Storage Independence

Signiant’s commitment to storage independence offers businesses two key benefits. First, it enables the automation of file movement across file or object storage — on-prem or in the cloud — allowing customers to choose the storage that best meets their business needs. Second, Signiant never bundles or resells storage; assets always flow directly into and out of customers’ storage, ensuring assets always remain in their control.

Automated Features

The Signiant Platform offers customizable features that allow companies to move content according to their needs. Automated monitoring and notifications minimize manual oversight, while support for bandwidth management and scheduled transfers ensures timely and consistent file movement. These capabilities reduce staff intervention and provide greater control over transfer operations.

Scale-out Architecture

With its dynamic scale-out architecture, the Signiant Platform automatically adds or reduces resources to effectively manage varying data volumes and customer demands. The automatic distribution of workloads across multiple cloud nodes ensures high performance, reliability, prompt file delivery, optimized bandwidth usage and the elimination of bottlenecks.

Modern APIs

Signiant APIs enhance file transfer operations by enabling seamless automation and integration with existing systems and workflows. Tasks such as creating, deleting and managing transfer jobs can be done programmatically, reducing manual intervention and improving efficiency. These APIs allow for automatic transfers based on triggers, ensuring timely and reliable file movement. By offering flexible, customizable and secure system-to-system automation, Signiant APIs help streamline complex workflows, enhance productivity and ensure that file transfers adapt to evolving business needs.

The Signiant Platform by the Numbers

50,000

Companies

1,000,000

Global Users

PB Data Transferred per Month

“Our need was for a simple, fast facility-to-facility transfer mechanism between various sites. [The Signiant Platform] targets that exact need. At the end of the day, that simplicity proved to be a crucial motivator for Sim’s decision.”

Liam Ford, Senior Vice President, Post Engineering

Learn More About the Signiant Platform

The Signiant Platform builds on the foundation of our world-class fast file movement apps and adds workflow-centric production services that make working with media even more efficient.