The firm installed FileCatalyst HotFolder on the vessel’s acquisition server. Files were automatically encrypted, compressed, and sent to an on-premise FileCatalyst server in Aberdeen, Scotland.
In the age of cloud-native everything, it is easy to assume that moving data is trivial. Yet for media & entertainment, healthcare, and manufacturing, moving terabytes of high-latency data across global networks remains a nightmare of packet loss, high latency, and failed transfers. filecatalyst case studies
But the specs don’t matter if the software doesn’t work in the real world. Below are three real-world case studies demonstrating how FileCatalyst turns impossible deadlines into automated workflows. The Challenge A major Hollywood post-production house needed to send raw 8K footage (2TB per day) from a shoot in Cape Town, South Africa, to editors in Los Angeles. Using standard Aspera and FTP, the 300ms latency caused throughput to drop to 35 Mbps. A single day’s rushes took over 60 hours to transfer—making same-day edits impossible. The firm installed FileCatalyst HotFolder on the vessel’s