Aspera Delivers Major Advances in Its Core FASP High-Speed Transfer Platform
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New Capabilities Allow Enterprises to Transfer, Synchronize and Stream Digital
Content Across Distributed Cloud and On Premises Systems, Meeting Variable
Demands in Real Time With Speed, Control and Ease
ARMONK, N.Y., April 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IBM today announced at NAB2015
that Aspera, an IBM company, is unveiling the next generation of its unique FASP
software platform for moving Big Data and media at maximum speed and scale
regardless of size, distance or network conditions. Multiple breakthrough new
capabilities and advanced features allow enterprises of all sizes to meet
variable data movement demands in real time with speed, control, security and
ease, and all capabilities are designed to move data directly to cloud and on
premise storage.
Advances in the Core Transport
* ascp4 is the next-generation Aspera file transfer binary introducing a new
architecture for ultra high-speed transfer of small files in addition to
large data sets. The architecture transfers up to one million files per
minute for even the smallest file sizes (e.g. <10KB) and achieves > 5Gbps
transfer rates for global RTT and packet loss conditions (200ms / 2%).
* FASPStream transport expands Aspera's FASP transport technology for "live"
and "near live" data streaming. Aspera FASP is a patented transport protocol
for achieving highly efficient bulk data transfer over IP networks,
independent of distance and quality (round-trip latency and packet loss).
FASPStream expands this capability to provide a fully reliable streaming
protocol for in-order data delivery over Internet WANs with excellent
quality and negligible start up delay. Aspera will demonstrate live video
delivered over commodity Internet directly from Times Square to the NAB Show
Floor.
Advances in Aspera Direct-to-Cloud Transfer and Autoscaling
Aspera Direct-to-Cloud Storage transfer capability moves even the largest (4K)
media formats from source directly to object storage destination with native I/O
for all major cloud storage providers: IBM SoftLayer Swift, AWS S3, Microsoft
Azure Blob, Akamai NetStorage, Limelight Orchestrate Cloud Storage, Google Cloud
Storage, and HDFS (beta). The solution outperforms other cloud storage
"acceleration" solutions for large files and sets of small files in sustained
transfer speed, aggregate throughput, number of concurrent transfers and
CPU/memory efficiency. Version 3.6 brings many new capabilities to all Aspera On
Demand products such as:
* Server-side encryption at-restin addition to client-side, as well as in-
transit encryption
* Automatic determination of the cloud storage part sizeallowing for the
largest file sizes to be sent without specific configuration.
* New clustered transfersenable 10 Gbps+ transfers in/out/between clouds.
* A new Aspera Transfer Cluster Manager (ATCM) with Autoscale technology
providing elastic scaling, a multi-tenant access key system for security and
transfer reporting, and automatic high availability. The ATCM is a cloud-
infrastructure independent service created by Aspera that allows for
dynamic, real-time scale out of transfer capacity with automatic start/stop
of transfer server instances, automatic balancing of client requests across
available instances and configurable service levels to manage maximum
transfer load per instance, available idle instances for "burst" and
automatic decommissioning of unused instances.
Advances in Transfer Automation, Synchronization and Management
* A new Aspera WatchFolder Service is specifically designed to power high-
volume automated file and directory transfers with advanced features for
media workflows and content distribution.
Built on asperawatchd, a new file system notification service, designed for
speed, scale and distributed change watching, watch directories can now cover
huge file systems and large numbers of watch folders. Collections of files and
folders can now be grouped into a single "drop" and transferred to remote nodes
as a single logical unit and controlling which files arrive last. "Growing"(in
progress) files are fully supported. A RESTful API enables programmatic control
for customized and automated processing.
* Aspera Sync 3.6 also integrates asperawatchd technology to capture changes
on any local or shared storage client host (CIFS, NFS, etc.) and aggregate
all changes in real time in a single snapshot for speed on very large file
systems. File attribute changes (Windows ACL, Unix ownership) are synced,
even when content is not updated, and LZ compression achieves high
performance on low capacity networks. Bidirectional synchronization now
works on cloud storage as well as block storage.
* Aspera Console 3.0 for Centralized Management is built on a new architecture
with the ability to precisely regulate reporting load as the number of
transfer nodes increases, dramatically improving scalability, robustness,
and timely transfer status for large deployments. Many new settings and
options have been added, including advanced email notification triggers on
any transfer attribute such as source and destination path, Aspera Shares
and Faspex user attributes, and transfer directories; new managed node
clusters allow managed nodes to be assigned to cluster groups with shared
storage to support automatic load balancing and failover of transfers; and
an advanced search of transfer history searches by transfer names, IDs,
contacts, paths, and status.
Aspera will be demonstrating a preview of Aspera Files, a new SaaS offering for
global large data sharing built on this next generation platform, along with its
entire portfolio of high-speed file transfer, sharing and exchange products at
NAB2015 booth #SL9110. Detailed product features are available at
http://asperasoft.com/whats-new-spring-2015/
About Aspera
Aspera, an IBM company, 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. Based on its patented, Emmy® award-winning
FASP(TM) protocol, Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to
deliver the fastest, most predictable file-transfer experience. Aspera's core
technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and
uncompromising reliability. Organizations across a variety of industries on six
continents rely on Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their
digital assets. Please visit http://www.asperasoft.com and follow us on Twitter
(at)asperasoft for more information.
CONTACT: Americas/Asia: Kim Willsher, (+1) 310 569 2603
Europe: Louise Wells, +44 (0)20 7403 8878
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Aspera's PR agency
aspera(at)rlyl.com
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