Aspera, an IBM company

from PRO50 2017

INC System Integrations

Moving the world’s content at MaxiMuM speed

Founded in California in 2004 and now part of IBM, Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. At the root of Aspera’s success lies its innovative, patented, highly efficient bulk data transport technology: the FASP (fast, adaptive, secure protocol). This technology is unique and core to all Aspera high-performance file transfer software. Consistently ranked first in every WAN transfer throughput benchmark it was ever evaluated in, FASP outperforms software and hardware WAN acceleration solutions alike.

Major film studios, post-production companies, visual effects houses, sports and news broadcasters rely on Aspera to reduce their production cycles while securely delivering high-resolution media worldwide, with the utmost quality of service, to ultimately provide consumers with their best content, faster than ever before.

Aspera software solutions bring breakthrough cost savings and efficiency gains to organisations that need to move large volumes of content over public and private IP networks. Easy-to-deploy, fully cross-platform, file type and network type agnostic, Aspera solutions deliver unprecedented levels of transfer performance to file-based workflows (including maximum speed, security and bandwidth efficiency). Approximately 3,000 customers and 16,000 active software licenses are widely used across a variety of industries all over the globe, transporting petabytes of data each day.

aspera Fasp - universal high-perForMance transport technology

At the heart of the Aspera solutions is the patented FASP transport technology – a breakthrough transfer protocol that leverages existing WAN infrastructure and commodity hardware to achieve speeds that are 100 x faster than FTP and HTTP. A truly universal content transport platform, FASP supports all data, infrastructure and storage types over global distances regardless of location. It guarantees maximum speed and powers a comprehensive array of solutions designed for all transport paradigms and deployment models.

aspera high-speed transFer soFtware oFFers:

• Fast Content Transfers - Move the largest files and data sets quickly, efficiently and securely across global distances regardless of network conditions. • Enterprise File Sharing and Sync – Share, exchange and synchronise large files with colleagues, partners and customers across desktop, web and mobile devices and applications. • High-performance Cloud Computing –

Achieve line-speed transfers to, from and across cloud infrastructure with deep integration and direct to cloud-based object storage. • Workflow Automation – Orchestration and automation of file transfer and processing workflow from very simple to the most complex. • Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity – Replicating massive file systems across distances from primary to backup sites, meeting stringent recovery point and recovery time objectives.

aspera Fasp transFer servers and clients

Leveraging the unique transfer technology is a rich set of cross platform software applications including client and server software with browser plug-in, interactive GUI, integrated mobile client, hot folder and command line interfaces, as well as centralised browser based automation options for transferring files with globally distributed employees, partners and customers.

aspera on deMand

Aspera On Demand unlocks the cloud’s unlimited computing and storage resources for big data applications by delivering highspeed transfers in, out and across the cloud with scale-out transfer capacity, a variety of client options (web, mobile, embedded), and applications for ingest, sharing, collaboration and exchange of big data, all available as on-

demand subscription services. Available via a subscription on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, Google Cloud and IBM SoftLayer, Aspera On Demand comes in four distinct bundles with add-on options. It also leverages Aspera’s patented FASP transport technology, to deliver reliable, ultra-fast transfers, enterprise-grade security and precise control over transfer speed and priority.

aspera FaspstreaM

Aspera FASPStream expands Aspera’s FASP transport technology for live and near-live data streaming and provides a fully reliable streaming protocol for in-order data delivery over internet WANs with excellent video quality and negligible start up delay. Aspera FASPStream can be integrated into any type of application. • Easily integrate Aspera high-speed transfer technology directly into your applications. • Start processing the incoming data as soon as the first bytes are transferred, rather than waiting for the entire transfer to complete. • Enable in-memory access to transfer data for faster processing and better decisionmaking. • Initiate high-speed transfers of bulk data from your application memory space as the data is being captured or generated. • Leverage Aspera FASP high-speed technology, which is efficient, stable, robust and predictable, even for the longest distances and networks with the worst conditions. • Utilise Aspera security and management features when deployed in conjunction with an Aspera Server.

aspera Files

Aspera Files is a new SaaS offering for global media sharing built on the Generation 4 Aspera Transfer Platform. The SaaS Platform allows media organisations of any size to establish a branded web-based presence for fast, easy and secure exchange of file-based media content between end users, where the content can be stored and accessed in multiple cloud storage and on-premise storage systems. Sharing is as easy as drag-and-drop regardless of content location and workspace, and content remains private with easy peering with trusted third parties.

• On Demand SaaS offers global content sharing. • Easy on-boarding of organisations with branded web presence. • Fast, easy and secure exchange of files and folders of any size. • Built on Aspera FASP for unlimited speed, size and distance. • Store and readily access files and folders in multiple cloud-based and on-premises storage systems. (Supports AWS S3, MS

Azure Blob and SoftLayer Swift cloud storage and all-on-premises storage). • Establish individual and project workspaces with unique branding and any combination of storage to allow users to work as they choose.

aspera orchestrator

Aspera Orchestrator is a web-based application and SDK platform that enables precise control over the Aspera highperformance file transfer environment. It allows organisations to build efficient, predictable file processing pipelines that interconnect business units and external partners.

With Aspera Orchestrator, files can be directed, processed and redirected with easy-to-define rules based on an organisation’s workflows and using existing IT infrastructure. Aspera automation streamlines complex workflows, integrates seamlessly with third-party plug-ins and ensures each processing step is accurately performed. It allows: • Orchestrator scales fluidly and reliably for extreme processing required by workflows such as high-volume video encoding and content ingest and distribution. • Provide end-to-end secure transfers between suppliers and receivers, including user and endpoint authentication and authorisation, encryption and integrations with antivirus or other security technologies. • Receive content and data at high speeds from multiple sources around the world and seamlessly consolidate and merge incoming files and folders. Integrate with high-speed storage platforms (on premise or in cloud) for scalable transfer performance across metropolitan and long-haul networks over any distance, with speeds of 10 Gbps and beyond.

Aspera software can be purchased directly or through an expansive network of reselling partners worldwide. In addition to offering a complete portfolio of software products and a comprehensive SDK platform, Aspera provides engineering services to support custom-tailored implementation of solutions and transfer technology in all types of enterprises.

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