Have you ever lost important files? Does your business use lots of paper printing out assignments, making meeting agendas and handling everyday task assignments? Do you feel like you’re out of the loop when you have a sick day or take the day off? If you answered “yes” to any…
If you’ve ever tried to send any kind of video file, you know that it can be difficult, if not impossible. Sending a video over text message or email is hard, because it either takes forever, or the file is too large. There are some video compression applications available, but...
More and more companies are turning toward flexible work environments and allowing employees to work from home or on the road. This created a need for a collaboration platform that would allow for file sharing, seamless communication, and a virtual workspace that people could turn to in the office or...
When I took over as VP of Engineering at Hightail, my goal was to help the company innovate on our existing service. We wanted to create a new and valuable creative collaboration product that would solve genuine problems faced by our users. From an engineering perspective, it was a daunting prospect….
Our Systems Administrator, Tim Ciano, offers a uniquely poetic critique of Mac’s latest OS software release, El Capitán. An elegy to elegant software Inspired by Walt Whitman El Craptain’s no Captain! My heart once fawned Predecessors granted software harbor, heart is now long forlorn Sycamore and oak peaks, along El Capitán…
Hightail’s move into the world of creative collaboration with Spaces made having a high-performance search feature a major priority. Unlike our traditional file sharing service, Spaces is not focused on simple A to B transfers (though it can be used for this purpose). Instead, it’s all about the less linear back-and-forth…
As of today, Microsoft is no longer supporting older versions of Internet Explorer, including IE10. Today is a good day. At its peak in 2002-03, Internet Explorer has a 95% usage share, meaning that for many people, IE was the internet. But with the launch of Firefox in 2004 and…
Tim Miller – Sr. Director, Engineering at Yahoo – visited Hightail’s Campbell office recently to share some insights about how his company’s photo sharing site Flickr handles images and videos. As Hightail faces similar challenges with our new creative collaboration platform, Spaces, it was fascinating to learn about Flickr’s process for real-time…
This post was originally published on LinkedIn. Today’s technology moves so fast that any tech firm more than a few years old has to contend with aging stacks, outdated code and ever more complexly linked infrastructure. Yet there are also great advantages in having proven stacks, experienced staff and existing users….
If you‘ve been in the Information Technology sector for any length of time, you’ve already experienced this scenario. A new and better technology emerges that everyone adopts, or at least would like to adopt. Think ECM (Enterprise Content Management) in the early 90s and then on-premise storage portals and sites…