OTTAWA, Canada—Media file transfer provider MASV has announced a new integration with Seagate Lyve Cloud,  an object storage solution for mass data. 

This integration from MASV is one of the fastest ways for media industry professionals to ingest massive files and big data to Seagate Lyve Cloud, the companies reported. 

"Seagate Lyve Cloud is excited to partner with MASV to provide users with a simple way of ingesting enormous volumes of data within a secure and fast file transfer experience," said Kshitish Soman, head of product and operations for Seagate Lyve Cloud. "This integration provides users with dynamic tools for ingesting content into Lyve Cloud with high performance from anywhere in the world."

With easy-to-connect cloud integrations, MASV offers seamless data transfer workflows for users that prioritize security, the company said. 

Both Seagate Lyve Cloud and MASV are ISO27001 certified, providing data security for users of all sizes. Security is a top priority for MASV, and new security features are continuously being introduced. SOC2 certification is coming soon to MASV, the company reported. 

“Seagate is widely known for its leadership in mass data solutions. With so many exciting developments in big data, AI, machine learning and video, it’s a thrill to work with Lyve Cloud on an exciting integration like this,” said Greg Wood, CEO of MASV. “At MASV, we have virtually no limits, allowing us to quickly and effectively move vast volumes of data into Lyve Cloud. This new integration unlocks new possibilities for those looking for video and data ingest solutions.”

MASV partners with leading cloud-based solutions to create a user experience unique to MASV, the company explained. 

Alongside each integration, users can speed up their file transfer time by enabling MASV Multiconnect or taking advantage of MASV’s 10Gbps optimization capabilities while allowing unlimited package sizes, with individual files of up to 15TB in size. Users can have peace of mind knowing that MASV offers reliable features that no other transfer solution has.

The Lyve Cloud integration is now live and available to all MASV users. More information is available here.  

LEXINGTON, Mass. —Signiant Inc., the provider of intelligent file transfer software, has announced Media Engine, a modern media management service built into The Signiant Platform. 

Media Engine allows Signiant’s SaaS customers to easily search, preview and take action on media assets across all their Signiant-connected storage, from anywhere in the world, Signiant reported. 

Using the Media Engine service, customers can perform federated searches across multiple content repositories, both on-premises and in the cloud. Results are immediately actionable via the powerful services available on the platform anchored by Signiant’s fast file transfer technologies.

Media Engine will be included with every Signiant SaaS subscription, expanding the value of its products ⎯ Media Shuttle, Jet, and Flight Deck ⎯ well beyond file transfer, Signiant said. 

This expansion of the core Signiant platform also provides additional tools to help media companies create workflow efficiencies and streamline operations.

“Our customers need to easily access their widely distributed content and Media Engine makes that functionality available to any-size business,” commented Rick Clarkson, Signiant’s chief product officer. “Media Engine is a nimble, lightweight service built on the Signiant Platform, which is already widely deployed across the media supply chain thanks to its foundation of fast file transfer. The platform’s unique architecture enables us to bring a variety of powerful new services to market for our SaaS customers with a very disruptive approach — Media Engine is the first of those services.”

Within the intuitive Media Engine interface, users will also be able to mark in and out points to select a specific portion of a video asset ⎯ and then move only the clip of interest, commonly known as Partial File Restore. 

In addition, Media Engine's proxy and metadata framework will make it easy for users to bring the power of cloud AI services to media operations. Today’s announcement is only the beginning.

“It was just over a year ago that Signiant acquired Lesspain to help enhance the capabilities of the Signiant Platform,” says Margaret Craig, Chief Executive Officer of Signiant. “Media Engine is the result of many months of hard work by our internal development team and our new Lesspain colleagues. We think the results will delight the millions of media professionals who use our software in their everyday work, and our plan is to continue to release other platform services in the future that further address our customers' pain points.”

Media Engine is immediately available to select Signiant customers. General availability is currently scheduled for July 2022.

STAMFORD, Conn.—NBC Olympics is deploying Signiant intelligent file transfer software for its production of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, reported Darryl Jefferson, vice president of post production and digital workflow, at NBC Sports and Olympics, and Margaret Craig, CEO of Signiant.

Signiant’s software will allow NBC Olympics to leverage their talent and equipment back home in Stamford with remote production techniques, enabling them to provide enhanced viewing experiences to their audience much more efficiently, the companies reported. 

NBC will use Signiant’s software to move petabytes of footage from Tokyo back to its International Broadcast Center in Stamford immediately after it is captured. 

Signiant’s network optimization technology also allows for seamless transfer of the footage over standard IP networks, eliminating latency and packet loss, so that editors in Stamford can begin creating highlights almost immediately while the action is happening thousands of miles away. 

In addition, the software will be used to transfer content, including advanced graphics work and pre-recorded footage, quickly and securely back to the broadcast center in Tokyo.

“Signiant is excited to partner with NBC Olympics for the production of the Tokyo Games this summer,” said Craig. “Fan expectations for more immersive viewing experiences are growing and with NBC Olympics’ remote production operations, they will be sure to delight their audiences with amazing coverage. We’re proud that Signiant’s software will play such a central role in enabling NBC Olympics to seamlessly leverage their talent and technology located halfway around the world.”

Jefferson added that NBC Olympics will be using Signiant’s Managers and Agents solution. 

“File movement is central to all of our remote workflows both in Tokyo as well as in our broadcast center in Stamford,” Jefferson explained. “We are excited to see how it optimizes our transfers and provides greater resiliency across our domestic and international transfers. Signiant is enabling us to scale up to handle our Tokyo Olympics workload and our increased file sizes due to our HDR and 4K production efforts.”

Sending files with Media Shuttle is as simple as dragging and dropping them onto a web page. 

Unlike FTP, Media Shuttle never requires training and you can be up and running in hours. Without relying on IT, portal administrators can track file movement, easily add or remove users, and create and customize unlimited portals.

 A simple user-based pricing model makes Media Shuttle cost-effective for any sized business. With Media Shuttle you don’t have to worry about shipping hard drives, compressing files or breaking them into smaller files. 

Media Shuttle makes it easy to send any size file, anywhere, fast. 

Learn more at  www.signiant.com/media-shuttle.

Access to better, faster, more efficient file transfer technologies have become a top priority at media and entertainment companies. But how to choose among them?

To help with that process, this buying guide for creative media professionals outlines considerations when choosing a hands-on file transfer system as well as a checklist of must-have features for competitive advantage.

Click here to download 

AMSTERDAM—TV Technology recently spoke with Cory Bialowas, senior vice president of product marketing on their plans for the IBC Show, taking place at the RAI Convention Center in Amsterdam, Sept. 9-13.

TV TECHNOLOGY:What will Signiant be showing at IBC?

CORY BIALOWAS: We’ll be demonstrating new capabilities across our entire portfolio of accelerated file transfer solutions for media enterprises. Support for local object storage is the big news for our flagship Manager+Agents, which is ‘behind the firewall’ software for automated file movement. Companies that own these systems are also adopting Flight in record numbers – that’s our cloud-native offering for upload to AWS or Azure, which can be connected directly to a M+A system. And there are lots of new enhancements to Media Shuttle, the Signiant SaaS platform that continues to be the tool of choice for people who need to move large media files fast.

TVT:Signiant recently released a new guide on FTP. Can you tell us a little more about that?

CB: That asset specifically focused on augmenting or replacing FTP, which is something that more and more of our customers are doing. FTP is old technology, it’s slow, and the user experience isn’t great. Our Media Shuttle SaaS offering is a next-generation solution that solves all of those problems, and at IBC we’re introducing new features that make it practical to undertake large-scale, enterprise-wide deployments. 

TVT:What do you think the main themes for your customers will be at IBC?

CB: We’re expecting cloud technology to continue to be very topical, and local object storage is part of the same conversation. Media customers tell us that storage independence is a critical factor – so Signiant has a strong commitment to supporting a range of storage technologies and suppliers. And as always, customers are looking for technical solutions that meet their over-arching goals of business agility, cost management, and effective resource utilization.

TVT:Can you elaborate on your workflow for Azure and what customer reaction has been?

CB: That was just one example of how media workflows can be extended to the cloud, which is an area of great interest to our customers. Signiant technology plays a key role in the move to cloud technology, whether for a single simple process or the kind of large-scale cloud adoption outlined in our recent press release about Discovery Networks.

Signiant will be in booth 14.L08 in the RAI. For more information on the IBC Show, visit www.ibc.org

NEW YORK—Snippies is one of the largest creators of sales and marketing video in the world. Our database of more than 300 clients includes Amazon, Google, AppNexus, Microsoft and Boston Consulting Group. These companies and others like them rely on us to deliver everything from case studies and testimonials to product demos and consumer research.

Video production is a fast-turnaround industry. It’s not unusual for us to get a call from a client on Monday asking us to interview a customer in Iceland on Wednesday and then create a polished testimonial for use at a conference on Friday.

With a network of video journalists in every major city around the world, capturing high-quality content on short notice was never an issue. The real challenge was getting the footage back to our headquarters in New York in time for editing.

Snippies team utilizing Signiant’s Media Shuttle platformTRIAL AND ERROR
Over the years, we’ve experimented with different approaches to this problem. FedEx was a reasonable solution, but shipping a hard drive across the world is expensive and, most importantly, time-consuming. Footage wouldn’t arrive until two or three days after it was originally shot. FTP was fine for small files, but not for hours of full-resolution HD footage; not to mention the fact that many of our videographers had difficulty understanding the highly technical FTP interface. Getting them the proper training was an ordeal, and even when a videographer had done everything correctly, sometimes the FTP link would fail in the middle of the night, forcing us to start over the next morning.

After researching several large file transfer solutions, we chose to go with Signiant’s Media Shuttle, mostly because of the affordable cost and simple user interface. Media Shuttle’s SaaS architecture and pay-per-use pricing model allowed us to try it out without having to risk a ton of upfront investment buying software outright and managing it on our servers, as other solutions required. Also, Media Shuttle automatically scales to our usage and doesn’t have any data caps or file size limits.

Media Shuttle’s simple user interface and checkpoint/restart functionality were also influential factors. We needed something fast, intuitive to use and far less complicated than FTP; something that could pick up transfers where they left off in case of interruption.

SIMPLE INSTALLATION
Installation was relatively simple. Signiant’s customer onboarding specialists helped us install the “file pump” software on our network server and from there we set up our Media Shuttle portal, which is hosted and delivered by Signiant’s cloud software and infrastructure, allowing us to easily make changes to users and track transactions.

We were also able to add images and branding to our portal, so it’s customized with the Snippies look and feel. So far, we’ve worked with only one portal in the “share” mode—there’s also “send” and “submit”—which allows our field teams to upload and download files within designated folders, and for our New York headquarters to transfer finished videos to our clients.

Three months in, we are very happy with Media Shuttle and see the difference reliable electronic large file transfers make to our business and our stress level. As a global video production company that relied solely on FedEx and FTP, it’s clear this is a type of technology our industry will soon be unable to do without.

Tom DiCerbo has been managing partner and co-owner of Snippies since 2010. Prior to joining Snippies, DiCerbo worked for several prominent media outlets such as the New York Times and Newsweek after graduating from California State University in San Marcos. He can be reached attdicerbo@snippies.comor 212-594-9500.

For more information, visitwww.signiant.comor call 781-221-4051.

Moderator:Tom Butts, Editor-in-Chief, TV Technology

Presenter:Mike Nash, Senior Product Manager, Signiant