Mirriad and Xstream Deploy Aspera High-Speed Transfer in the Cloud
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Demand for Aspera On Demand Increases Throughout EMEA Region; Advertising
Technology Creator Mirriad and OTT Solutions Provider Xstream Are Among New
Customers
ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced
that Aspera, an IBM Company, continued the momentum in its cloud offerings with
the addition of two new customers, advertising technology creator Mirriad, and
OTT and TV Everywhere solutions provider Xstream.
Mirriad
With headquarters in London, UK, and offices around the world, Mirriad works
with leading brands, content owners and distributors in over 20 countries,
delivering native ads seamlessly embedded within premium video content,
including TV shows, movies and music videos.
Mirriad deployed Aspera faspex(TM) On Demand to streamline file exchange between
customers and business partners around the world. For Mirriad's numerous clients
in Asia and Latin America, where poor connections are common, Aspera's ability
to perform even over the worst network conditions was particularly important.
Mirriad is now able to send and receive high-resolution media assets across
global distances quickly, reliably and securely, regardless of file size, the
distance between Mirriad's clients and the cloud infrastructure, or the
conditions of the network.
Mirriad also selected Aspera Cargo to enable the automatic download of media
files upon receipt, saving time and easing collaboration between geographically
dispersed teams. Today, Mirriad receives on average 20 to 100GB, with peaks
upwards of 200GB, of large media assets directly to their cloud storage using
Aspera On Demand. The tight integration of Aspera FASP and the underlying object
storage APIs ensures the fastest speeds while adding transfer management
features such as pause, resume, and encryption at rest.
"The Aspera solution enhances our services with media transfer speeds up to five
times faster than legacy solutions. FTP and other legacy technologies had poor
performance over the WAN and difficulty handling large file sizes for us," said
Tim Harris, VP of engineering at Mirriad. "Decreasing overall project turnaround
time is allowing us to meet the increasing demand for branded entertainment and
native advertising in premium high-quality video content."
Xstream
Copenhagen-based Xstream is the creator of end-to-end solutions for OTT and TV
Everywhere business models. Xstream's video management system, Xstream
MediaMaker(TM) is a modular and easy to use cloud-based service that enables
telcos, cable operators, broadcasters and media companies to create, deliver and
monetize OTT and TV Everywhere solutions.
Though the company initially focused on providing services for its Nordic
customers, Xstream rapidly expanded to global markets and was met with a growing
need for fast and easy collaboration with clients and partners around the world.
Xstream's customers license tens of thousands of titles from studios and depend
on Xstream to retrieve video files from content owners and deliver them into
customers' systems for streaming. Aspera On Demand enables Xstream to ingest
large volumes of high-end content from studios, distributors and content owners
into Xstream's video processing workflows for packaging, content protection and
CDN delivery. The subscription-based model enables Xstream to scale up resources
as needed to meet growing demand, without large upfront infrastructure costs.
Xstream embedded Aspera's FASP high-speed transfer technology into the
MediaMaker Loading Dock service, part of Xstream MediaMaker(TM). Studios, supply
chain partners and customers upload video files by simply dropping content into
watch folders, triggering an automatic upload directly to Xstream's data center
hosted in the cloud. Xstream customers benefit from reduced time spent on the
content supply chain, and faster time to market.
"Aspera is a well-known solution in the video industry, which is one of the main
reasons we selected the solution. We use Aspera daily and it greatly improves
the speed and reliability of our file uploads. The results have exceeded our
expectations," said Brynhild Vinskei, CMO at Xstream.
"Continued demand for cloud-based media services and technologies is encouraging
media companies throughout EMEA and beyond to seek new cloud-ready solutions for
file transfer and collaboration. By reducing transfer times, Aspera empowers
companies to provide the quality and timely service their valued customers
deserve," said Bruce Brewer, head of sales at Aspera for EMEA.
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. Part of IBM Cloud, Aspera software is powered
by the Emmy® award-winning FASP® protocol to deliver the fastest, most
predictable file-transfer, share and sync experience across on-premises, cloud,
and hybrid infrastructure. 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: Media contacts:
Europe: Louise Wells, +44 (0)20 7403 8878
Americas/Asia: Kim Willsher, (+1) 310 569 2603
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Aspera's PR agency
aspera(at)rlyl.com
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