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    Customer Stories

    Signiant’s Media Shuttle Helps MEDIAPRO Span the Globe

    “Media Shuttle’s accessible and intuitive portals allow us to send files of all kinds to technicians, marketing personnel, production assistants, etc., and there is never a problem in understanding how the system works.”
    Read Signiant’s Media Shuttle Helps MEDIAPRO Span the Globe
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    Articles

    Why Many Studios and Broadcasters are Banning FTP From Their Supply Chain

    For decades, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) has been used in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry to move files between servers and for distributing them around the world. And for just as long, cybersecurity experts have been warning of its potential threat to network security, intellectual property and privacy. Nevertheless, FTP has persisted.
    Read Why Many Studios and Broadcasters are Banning FTP From Their Supply Chain
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    Product Brochures

    Media Shuttle – Product White Paper

    The most comprehensive asset on Media Shuttle to date, this product white paper covers how cloud technology has enabled a new generation of large file movement solutions, explaining Signiant’s core technology, Media Shuttle’s system architecture, TCO, pricing model, enterprise features, as well as the Web Transfer API and how to use Shuttle with cloud storage.
    Read Media Shuttle – Product White Paper
  • Articles

    Big Files, Big Challenges

    Why WeTransfer, FTP and shipping hard drives are no longer viable for media and what you can do about it.
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    The Signiant Advantage

    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.
    Read The Signiant Advantage
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    Articles

    Large File Transfer Software: Buyer’s Guide

    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.
    Read Large File Transfer Software: Buyer’s Guide
  • Articles

    Nine Pitfalls of Relying on FTP to Move Large Media Files

    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.
    Read Nine Pitfalls of Relying on FTP to Move Large Media Files
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    Articles

    The Latest Media Shuttle Innovations: 10 New Capabilities

    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.
    Read The Latest Media Shuttle Innovations: 10 New Capabilities
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    Articles

    The Latest Trend in Cloud Ingest Portals

    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.
    Read The Latest Trend in Cloud Ingest Portals
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    Articles

    Why Cloud-Native Matters: And How it Differs from Cloud-Washed Software

    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.
    Read Why Cloud-Native Matters: And How it Differs from Cloud-Washed Software
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    It’s a Hybrid Cloud/Multi-Cloud World

    Cloud adoption is rapidly increasing among media companies, but most are continuing to use on-premises storage and software alongside cloud investments.
    Read It’s a Hybrid Cloud/Multi-Cloud World
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    Articles

    5 Reasons Fast Video File Transfers are Critical to Your Business

    In the media production business, demand for high-resolution video content is growing rapidly while the size of those video files is growing exponentially. Moving large files is becoming increasing difficult, but it doesn’t need to be.
    Read 5 Reasons Fast Video File Transfers are Critical to Your Business