File Transfer Acceleration – Storage Made Easy Blog

September 14, 2019

Migrating Command Line Media Workflows and Scripted FTP to M-Stream accelerated File Transfer

A lot of prospects and customers who take a look at the File Fabric for Media are either using Scripted FTP or they have existing IP in their command line media workflows (scripted FTP generally refers to FTP that has custom scripts written to enable automation.).

The great things about the M-Stream file transfer acceleration feature of the Enterprise File Fabric is that not only can it be used transparently through the browser and the desktop, as it has a very rich HTTPS API then it can easily be integrated into existing command line workflows.

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September 11, 2019September 11, 2019

Media Focused Case Study: Integrating the Enterprise File Fabric into an existing MAM

The File Fabric for Media is a specialised version of the File Fabric specifically for companies who deal with large media assets. This case study focused on the use of the File Fabric for Media at an established UK Premier League Football Club.

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May 10, 2019May 10, 2019

Case Study: Accelerating File Transfers from Tier 1 Storage to Tier 2 Object Storage

This user case study focuses on a top tier Media company which has grown from a small digital distribution company in Los Angeles to a global media services, distribution, and software solutions company, aggregating and delivering film and television digital assets on behalf of major studios, broadcasters and streaming providers to more than 600 platforms around the world.

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April 9, 2019April 10, 2019

Uploading to remote AWS S3 regions from EC2 is throttled to 598 MBps (~5Gbps)

For those folks who use and know Amazon S3 they will be aware and know about multi-part uploads. Multipart upload enables the uploading of a (normally large) single object as a set of parts.

November 26, 2018November 26, 2018

Accelerating Media Assets Transfer for OpenStack Swift and S3 compatible Object Storage

During the OpenStack Summit in Berlin, James Norman, Engineering Manager at SME, presented a live demo on:

How to transfer assets between storage tiers quickly and efficiently?

How to archive data onto Object as part of our existing workflows?

How to distribute content stored on Object Storage securely?

The official videos from the event have not been posted yet but you can catch a video from James presenting this below: