The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast FileCatalyst CEO Chris Bailey at NAB 2019 Booth Interview

Episode Date: April 9, 2019

FileCatalyst CEO Chris Bailey at NAB 2019 Booth Interview

Hi, this is Voss here from the chrisvossshow.com. Hey, we're coming to you here from the NAB 2019 here in Las Vegas. We've got some interesting show booths we're going to be interviewing today, so be sure to check those out. You can of course see them on the hashtag pound NAB 2019. I'm here with the CEO of File Catalyst, Chris Bailey. How you doing, Chris? Good. How are you, Chris? Good, good. And we're standing by, look at these Emmys you guys, Chris? Good. How are you, Chris? Good, good. And we're standing by, look at these Emmys you guys have got. Wow, look at these award-winning,

I'm sure you're proud of this. We're absolutely proud of it. I mean, we wouldn't have had them here if we weren't. But it's a good show. It gets people to stop by the booth and stop and look and gawk at them, take pictures with them. So yeah, it's...

Now this is pretty awesome. Now their booth number, they are in the South Hall. It is SL-12116. If you're at NAB, come by and check these guys out. You definitely want to see their booth. You can see they've got a pretty large thing they have here. They've got plenty of really nice people you can talk to. You can see their Emmys. You can't touch them. So give us your website first, so people can look that up, and then tell us what FileCatalyst does. So the website's FileCatalyst.com, so you can go there and check out all the information, what we're offering at the show, or you can stop by and visit us here at the booth. But for those of you that don't know what FileCatalyst does, we provide file transfer acceleration. Basically, it's a replacement for your legacy FTP or you

know any any kind of email sharing links and that sort of thing that you might be using now. We provide those solutions to you on-premise or in the cloud both as hosted monthly or you can pay and own the software models. So we just make it really easy for you to get access to acceleration technology and maximize your bandwidth and move around the big files. And we know everybody has these days because video file sizes are growing, bandwidth is getting less expensive. So it's allowing you to send files faster than ever before. And you really need a system to manage that. And that's what File Catalyst does. And we've been doing that for several years now.

Then you guys also people like collaborate on a file, right? Absolutely. Yeah. So if I have a team that's maybe international around the world, like a lot of companies or teams are these days, everyone can use the file, the movie, whatever sort of video product or project it is, and they can edit it. They can all work on it together. Yeah. So our new product file, Catalyst Sp space is kind of facilitates that global workflow where you have a web portal that's branded to your

organization and users can be defined for all over the world to come in and have a shared area where they can upload files, send messages to others and allow them to work on the file, send it back in so you can all collaborate in a global way. This is all hosted in the cloud so you don't have to have IT staff, you don't have to have storage. You can also connect it to your storage if you have your own storage. So it's very flexible in that matter. And it's all in a sort of a usage based consumption model. So if you don't use it, you don't pay, but if you use it, you can pay.

Awesome sauce. Awesome sauce. Now it looks like you guys have got 2019 NAB Show Product of the Year nominee. Absolutely. Tell us about that. We were shortlisted for File Catalyst Spaces for Product of the Year this year. Something we're really excited about. So keeping our fingers crossed on that one. That is awesome. I mean, being able to get nominee for Product of the Year is pretty freaking awesome. Anything else we need to know about what you guys do and how you guys do it? We have promotions going on right now, free setup and free terabyte of storage with FileCalus

Spaces. That's really what we're pushing at this show. So go to FileCalus.com slash spaces. You can check that out. You can come down here. You can pick up a coupon card that gives you a promo code. We'd love to see you and then show you what we got. Yeah, 1TB is pretty awesome because you got big, huge files.

Exactly. So really, we're still in beta, we're in the process of launching, so it's a really good chance to kind of get people on board and without any cost to them, and try out the software, give a little bit of feedback so we can improve it and perfect it before we go with our full launch. So what were the Emmys for?

Do you want to talk about what you guys won those for? Yeah, so one of the Emmys was for innovation with file transfer, it's a broadcast engineering Emmy. We got that in 2014. And the other two Emmys were for our work with NBC Olympics for the Sochi Olympics in 2014. So we're a pretty integral part of what they did for Sochi. And they were gracious enough to include us in their nomination for the Emmys. And we ended up winning it. So it was great. That is awesome. I mean, that's just got to be the coolest thing.

It was one of those, I never thought I'd be here moments as a software, you know, developer, development company winning an Emmy Award. But yeah, it was fantastic. This is pretty cool. So you can come see these guys booth. They're in South Hall, booth number SL12116. And anything more we need to know, Chris? No, just come by and visit us and check out the website. Sounds good, guys. Check it out. And you can go to filecatalyst.com. Correct. Sounds good. And you can take advantage of the special they're running right now.

Or you can check us out on Twitter as well, at File Catalyst. Facebook as well. You can take a like on Facebook and keep up with all the latest news. Sounds good. All right, well thanks guys for tuning in. Be sure to check them out. We'll see you next time.