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We issued a press release earlier this morning announcing the adoption of FileCatalyst Webmail by Artificial Mind & Movement, Canada’s largest independent game developer.

The release can be found here:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/artificial-mind–movement-chooses-filecatalyst-to-accelerate-file-transfers-87104902.html

…or at the bottom of this blog post, here.

The announcement is exciting for us on a few different levels:

  • A2M came to us with an understanding of the problem. When someone knows exactly what they want to fix, and your product delivers, it is tremendously satisfying.
  • The Game Development industry is of particular interest to us, not only because a few of us love gaming, but because we have seen the need for improved file transfer throughout the game development workflow for quite a while. It’s a great validation when world-class game development companies like A2M understand your vision.
  • We are champions of improved file transfer. Our competitors are, too. Whenever anyone understands the very real problems with TCP-based transfer, our sphere has already benefited. Be that as it may, we are pleased that after thorough evaluations of various file transfer solutions, Artificial Mind & Movement chose FileCatalyst.

FileCatalyst will be at GDC in booth #3008. Swing by for a visit! Whether or not you’re currently looking to upgrade your file transfer technology, we’d be happy to explain how our technology works and how it might benefit you. See you there!

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 /PRNewswire/ – Unlimi-Tech Software, the pioneer in accelerated file transfers, is pleased to announce the selection of FileCatalyst Webmail by Artificial Mind & Movement. FileCatalyst Webmail allows Artificial Mind & Movement to manage and transfer game development files internally and globally, including game-supporting multimedia files and raw and binary game code.

FileCatalyst(R) acceleration technology is completely software-based, and is designed to overcome network performance bottlenecks to maximize use of available bandwidth. This technology is packaged into FileCatalyst Webmail, a solution which allows users to send files of any size to anywhere in the world, using only the recipient’s email address and their own web browser.

As the largest independent game developer in Canada, Artificial Mind & Movement must enable efficient collaboration with its developers, artists, testers and publishers. With the massive increase in rich media in today’s video games, moving content as quickly as possible between various international locations has become a huge priority that cannot be accomplished using traditional methods such as FTP.

“Transferring a large volume of files to publishers located all over the world, combined with the burden of managing multiple FTP sites and accounts, was becoming a challenge for both production and IT departments”, says Stephane Magnan, Information Technology Director. “We evaluated several file transfer solutions and came to the conclusion that FileCatalyst provides the best combination of performance and features. FileCatalyst’s ease of use, self-service, and effortless management helped tremendously in removing deadline pressures.”

With online storage, file tracking, user groups, APIs, and integration with Microsoft Outlook(TM), FileCatalyst Webmail provides an ideal solution for game development companies to collaborate on large files over any distance.

“We are pleased to be one of the integral applications deployed by Artificial Mind & Movement” said Chris Bailey, CEO of Unlimi-Tech Software. “The gaming industry is experiencing huge issues relating to delivery of the massive amounts of content in today’s games. FileCatalyst allows game development companies to minimize file transfer times, improving productivity across the game development workflow.”

About Artificial Mind & Movement

Based in Montreal, Quebec, Artificial Mind & Movement is Canada’s largest independent game developer, employing 450 talented people in Montreal, Quebec and Santiago, Chile. Since 1992, the company has developed 120 titles across every game platform, including its highly-stylized third person shooter WET(TM). The Artificial Mind & Movement studios work with the industry’s top publishers and licensors, including Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Disney, Electronic Arts, Fox, Konami, LucasArts, Viacom and Warner. Artificial Mind & Movement is committed to producing unparalleled game experiences with original or licensed Intellectual Properties.

About Unlimi-Tech Software

Located in Ottawa, Canada, Unlimi-Tech Software is the creator of FileCatalyst(R), the world’s leading file transfer solution. Founded in 2000, the company has more than nine hundred commercial and government clients. FileCatalyst technology is a software-based solution designed to accelerate and optimize file transfers across global networks. FileCatalyst is immune to the effects that latency and packet loss have on traditional file transfer methods like FTP, HTTP or CIFS. FileCatalyst addresses these issues for enterprise WAN, satellite and wireless communications, media and content providers, and government and military organizations.

For more information, stop by booth #3008 at the GDC conference, or visit the FileCatalyst website at http://www.filecatalyst.com

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FileCatalyst Direct 2.7.5 is a minor release with a few small improvements and additions. It is a recommended upgrade.

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New to FileCatalyst 2.7.5:

  • Ability to enable/disable masquerade address bypass for local connections.
  • HotFolder PostURL now sends full status info for each file
  • Ability to hide Upload and Cancel buttons in Upload applet
  • Automatically revert to single stream TCP if multi-stream fails
  • Added JavaScript method to remove individual file from queue (affects Upload applet)
  • Added ability to switch To/From fields for email alerts
  • Browse dialog for Download Applet on Mac uses native look and feel
  • Fixed: Incorrect error messages in 2-way applet

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Happy Holidays from Unlimi-Tech!

Leading into the holidays and the New Year, we wanted to send out a note to all of our customers to thank them for their patronage, and to briefly recap 2009.

In this past year we have continued innovate and grow. We experienced record growth this year, in terms of worldwide adoption of our FileCatalyst software and also in terms of increasing staff to develop groundbreaking features and provide our clients with the same level of personalized and expert support that they are accustomed to. We are poised to continue this growth into 2010. Much of the credit goes to the hard work and determination by our staff; however, nothing would be possible without our growing base of loyal customers.

As with any business, we owe everything to our clients. We feel that this is particularly true in software development, because it goes beyond sales. Having strong relationships with customers who are eager to share their observations and suggestions leads to improvements in our products that might not otherwise be in place! When the creativity and enthusiasm of your customer base matches with that of your employees, great things can happen.

Throughout 2009, we released several major new features including full official release of our SDK, the first iteration of our Outlook Plugin, and cloud deployment through our Amazon AMIs. Under the hood, we have continued to boost performance of the FileCatalyst core, reaching multiple Gbps speeds even with high latency and packet loss. We have added almost 100 new features to our client and server applications, almost all in direct response to customer feedback.

We continue to receive wonderful (and much appreciated) comments on our technical and pre-sales support as well. Our staff is really just doing what seems natural: providing answers in a friendly and clear way, being available for honest-to-goodness phone conversations and web meetings, and being dedicated to finding the answers if they’re not immediately obvious. We’ve come to take it as a real point of pride that our customers consider our support to be above and beyond what they have come to expect from other companies. So a big thank you to everyone who is so thoughtful and encouraging when providing those kinds of comments– it fuels us to work even harder for you!

On behalf of everyone here at Unlimi-Tech, Happy Holidays! We are look forward to continuing to serve you in 2010!

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This Position has been Filled. Thanks you for your interest!

Unlimi-Tech Software, the makers of FileCatalyst, are looking to add another Technical Support Specialist to our team. If you live in the Ottawa area or are willing to relocate, this is an excellent opportunity to work with a great bunch of people at a dynamic organization.

Check it out here: Technical Support Position

This Position has been Filled. Thanks you for your interest!

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With FileCatalyst Direct 2.7.4 comes a list of notable improvements and new features, including Amazon EC2 licensing and new methods for applet JavaScript API.

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New to FileCatalyst 2.7.4:

  • FileCatalyst Direct now available as an hourly or monthly AMI for Amazon EC2
  • Ability to specify SSL ciphers for FileCatalyst Server
  • Database authentication model (ie: MySQL) available
  • Additional methods to JavaScript interface for applets
    • Upload applet: determine selected file in queue
    • Upload and download applet: determine all files in queue
    • Upload and download applet: callback once applet has loaded
    • Upload and download applet: launch FC file browser
    • browseLive() method now returns path selected by user
    • Improved Upload and Download applet documentation
  • Separate buttons for Pause and Cancel buttons for applets.
  • Enabled some upload applet buttons (ie: add to queue) optional
  • Download applet now has “autoreveal” feature to launch file explorer
  • Download applet now has “Launch” button to execute downloaded file
  • Improvements to upgrade of HotFolder on Mac OSX
  • Added servlet URL field to HotFolder site-creating wizard
  • Express connection manager warns if congestion control disabled
  • Process verification when lauching FileCatalyst Server and HotFolder (running multiple intentional or not)
  • Improved UNC path support
  • Concurrent MD5 checksum operations

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