IBM Aspera product

overview
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IBM Aspera’s mission

IBM Aspera’s next-generation transport technologies

move the world’s digital assets at maximum speed,

regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions

Markets Served
Media and Entertainment Federal Government Engineering & Manufacturing Architecture & Design
Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical Healthcare Software & Gaming Financial Services
Oil & Gas Enterprise IT Advertising & Publishing Legal & eDiscovery
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Challenges transferring large data over distance
Size & Volume
Can’t reliably send, share, and sync large files and data sets over global internet
connections
Speed
Unable to move big data at high-speed with existing network bandwidth
Distance
Subject to slower times and more congestion for global file transfers across public
internet, corporate MPLS, wireless and mobile networks
Infrastructure
Limited options to access and store data to the cloud from on-premises infrastructures
Control
Need greater security & more control in moving files & data sets to employees,
collaborators, & external data centers, without impacting other traffic
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Increasingly this calls for
Fastest possible transfers with predictable delivery times
• Regardless of distance
• Support for large files, large numbers of small files, and streams

Support for hybrid cloud infrastructures

• Any storage location
• Any leading cloud platform

Enterprise-grade security
• Encryption, privacy, and integrity of data
• Authentication and access control

Fully managed service

• Software, infrastructure and security management are handled
• Allows an organization to focus on its business

Control and automation

• Over transfer activity, times, and resource usage
• Seamless integration and automation via APIs
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Why IBM Aspera? Securely move data at high
speed over global IP
networks between on-
premises and hybrid cloud
environments regardless of
size, distance, and network
conditions
Challenges with TCP and
alternative technologies
• Distance degrades conditions
on all networks
• TCP performance degrades
severely with distance
• TCP does not scale with
bandwidth

Note: This graph illustrates how TCP-based transfer throughput is severely

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degraded by distance and network conditions.
Aspera FASP® – High
Performance Data Transfer
• Maximum transfer speed
• Congestion avoidance and
policy control
• Uncompromising security
and reliability
• Scalable management,
monitoring and control

Note: This graph shows how Aspera FASP transfers remain unaffected by
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transfer distance and highly resilient to network conditions.
Key Aspera capabilities High-speed data transfer across hybrid cloud
infrastructures
Performance at any distance
– Transfer up to 100s of times faster
using built-in FASP® protocol

– Any size or volume

– Predictable and reliable
– Adaptive bandwidth control

– Achieve multi-Gbps speeds

Aspera FASP: Maximum speed with no network saturation

Extraordinary bandwidth control that doesn’t saturate the network

• Automatic detection & full utilization of available bandwidth
• “Fair” policy protection of other network traffic
• Allows “bursts” in TCP traffic and reclaims unused bandwidth as it becomes available

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FASP adaptive rate control

Real-time prioritization of transfers

• On-the-fly, per flow, user and job prioritization of transfers
• Concurrent transfers adjust bandwidth on the fly, allocating available bandwidth based on transfer priority

System-wide monitoring and reporting

• Real-time progress and performance analysis along with detailed transfer history, logging and manifest

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Aspera FASP – security & reliability
Complete built-in security
• Secure endpoint authentication, data encryption on-the-fly and at rest, and per-packet integrity verification
• FIPS 140-2 compliant, built on the openssl libraries

Secure user/endpoint authentication

• Authentication via secure SSH mechanisms: interactive password or public key
• LDAP, Active Directory user authentication
• Native File System Access Control support across all operating systems

AES-128/192/256 cryptography
• On-the-fly data encryption
• Data encryption in transit and (optionally) at rest (secured storage of transferred content), client and server options

Data integrity verification

• Each transmitted data block is verified with a cryptographic hash function
• Protects against man-in-the-middle, re-play, and UDP denial-of-service attacks

100% reliable data transmission

• Session semantics guarantee 100% bit-for-bit identical data copy at the destination
• Automatic resume of partial or failed transfers
• Automatic HTTP fallback in highly restrictive networks
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Key use cases

Upload & Ingest Distribute Data Share & exchange Replicate & Sync Stream high-quality
Large Data Sets Globally files & folders Datasets video & data
Migrate/upload massive Quickly distribute Allow teams to quickly Replicate data Stream high-quality
volumes of data to globally to many target collaborate with huge repositories. Decrease video and data feeds
cloud to cut costs and sites to accelerate files and data sets to RTO/RPO to ensure over public Internet
scale faster, e.g. workflows & boost productivity, e.g. business continuity and without modification
Migrate to Cloud deliverables, e.g. Manufacturing Design prevent data loss across all platforms
Retail, Distribution e.g. Devops Sync (server, desktop
browser and mobile)

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Aspera platform overview

Real-time visibility
Access & APIs Automation & & control
Delivery Collaboration Synchronization
Integration
Web, Desktop, Email,
Mobile, CLI, Custom App,
SDKs, REST, Java & more

Secure high-speed transfer clusters connecting

public, private & hybrid clouds

FASP® Patented High-Speed Transport

Any Data Size, Distance, Network Any Storage: Block, Object, On Premises, Cloud Any Data: Files, Streams

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Aspera product offerings
Flexible licensing models

Software as a Service (SaaS)

• New Aspera on Cloud platform to transfer, exchange and automate the delivery of your data across public, private and
hybrid clouds
• Includes monitoring, reporting, administration, and automation
• SaaS offering hosted on IBM Cloud

Perpetual Software License with annual support and maintenance

• Host license per server, point-to-point, and web application servers
• Based on aggregate bandwidth
• Add-ons for High-Availability

On demand subscription service

• Monthly, Annual, Multi-year subscription services based on volume transferred
• Server On Demand, Application Platform On Demand, Shares On Demand, Faspex On Demand
• Add-on options: Clients, Sync, Autoscale
• Available on IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google

Aspera developer tools

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Challenges of data transfer
in the cloud
Challenges of hybrid multicloud data transfer

FTP & HTTP Timeouts Automating Transfers

TCP-based transfers slow with distance Manually scripting automated file
and packet loss processing is too complex

Need Faster, More Secure Delivery Lack End-to-End Visibility

Shipping hard disks increases risk of Activity tracking & reporting across
data getting lost in transit hybrid infrastructures is difficult

Accessing Data in a Hybrid Cloud Securing Your Transfer Environment

Data spread across storage locations Enabling information exchange risks the
can be difficult to access exposure of your business’ IP

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WAN transfer challenge is compounded in the cloud
 Traditional cloud transfer options

Both methods for writing to cloud object

storage create bottlenecks and unnecessary
delays
IBM Aspera for High Speed Data Migration to the Cloud
 IBM Aspera Direct-to-Cloud technology

• Full client-side read/write of object storage

• Synchronous transfer from client to object
storage
• FASP transfer speeds end-to-end
• Real-time optimization of chunk size for HTTP
• Up to 3.5Gbps over a single session (varies per
cloud & instance type)
• Has achieved 100TB per 24 hours
 IBM Aspera Autoscale technology

• Integration with underlying cloud object

storage APIs
• Data available immediately after
transfer
• Ability to pause and resume cloud
transfers
• Transfer capacity automatically scales
Expanding global cloud footprint

Platforms Locations

☑ • N. America (12) – CA, OR, TX, IA, VA, DC, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City
☑ • Latin America (2) – Sao Paulo
• Europe (10) - Ireland, UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway
☑ • APAC (9) – Chennai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Sydney
☑ • Click here to see all regions and cloud platforms
☑ On-Premises Data Centers
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IBM Aspera on Cloud
IBM Aspera on Cloud
A hosted service that enables organizations and people to securely and reliably move large files and
data sets across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments at unrivaled speed

On-Premises Data Centers

Private Cloud
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Why Aspera On Cloud?
The fastest way to transfer, exchange, and monitor the delivery of your data from
any location to anywhere with anyone

Seamlessly access data stored across

multiple clouds and on-premises data
centers

Move any size and volume of files any

distance at maximum speed

Securely collaborate with internal and

external users while tightly controlling
access to your data
Key features & capabilities
Intuitive file sharing & content delivery across a hybrid-cloud environment

– Drag and drop transfers

– Secure workspace collaboration areas

– Inboxes and content submission

portals

– Digital package distribution

– Content preview

– Filter & sort

Key features & capabilities
Real-time activity monitoring and reporting

• Manage transfer activities, storage usage, &

digital packages

• Monitor user and application activity logs

• Generate and export custom usage reports

• Newest monitoring & reporting features:

– Monitor hybrid cloud activity for on-
premises transfer servers (v3.9.3 or later)
– Multi-session transfer monitoring
– File access and application events
Key features & capabilities
Central administration of hybrid environments

– Connect to any market- leading public

cloud & on-premises storage

– Remotely manage transfer nodes &

network policies

– Flexible access policies across

workgroups and applications

– Embed your brand into every

communication and web asset
Key automation features
Automate workflows and file movement between transfer endpoints

• Automate transfers between Nodes, Shared Workflow designer

Folders, and Shared Inboxes
• Initiate transfers via triggers
o API
o File arrival
o Package arrival
o Per a schedule
o Manually

• Integrate via API calls

• Integration with Aspera Orchestrator
• Email notifications
Triggers
• Dashboard visibility of live workflows
Actions
• Available in Advanced & Enterprise editions
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Key automation capabilities
Deliver
Automated delivery based on a
trigger event (e.g. time, file
arrival, API call)

Ingest
Automated data routing to
downstream processes, or
people

Integrate
Build high-speed transfer into
any application using APIs
Key automation benefits
Scalability
Automate repeated data transfer tasks that can
run in background, parallel processes across
multicloud environments

Efficiency
Transfer data with fewer touchpoints for a
hands-off approach that reduces - or even
eliminates - human intervention

Reproducibility
Achieve process consistency and reliability by
eliminating common errors that result from
manual data transfer
Automation Workflow Designer

Example

Shared inbox delivery -> Move data -> API call Customized triggers based on
& email notification metadata selection

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Key features: Unlock all on-premises storage
Tether: Extend SaaS features to customer-managed IBM Aspera nodes

• Connect with any environment running an Aspera

High-Speed Transfer server (including high
availability configurations)
• Manage a single hybrid, multicloud transfer
Aspera on Cloud
solution with data stored on-premise, in the
cloud, or both
• Leverage a common user experience for key use Aspera High-Speed
cases, including: Transfer Server

– Backup on-premises to cloud

On-premises private data center
– Distribution to cloud
– Ingest into a cloud-based workflow
Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server
• Available in Advanced & Enterprise editions
in HA config
Early access feature: Watermarking

• Aspera on Cloud integration with

Irdeto watermarking service
• Aspera on Cloud package delivery
has a new option to watermark files
• Package sender has an option to
select watermarking
• Package delivery shows status Package watermark details

“Add watermark”

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Watermarking: How it works
User-to-User package delivery example
Other features & capabilities
Desktop, browser, and mobile access

– Aspera Drive

– Aspera Connect

– Aspera on Cloud mobile app

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Leverage APIs to integrate Aspera on Cloud
Build high-speed transfer into your cloud-native applications
– Proven Aspera technology available for application
and workflow integration, including access to all
major cloud vendor object storage APIs

– Programmatic API capabilities include:

• Sending packages
• Sharing files
• Uploading files
• Reporting transfer activity
• Automating workflows

– Comprehensive API with full documentation at:

• https://developer.ibm.com/api/view/aspera-prod:ibm-aspera:title-IBM_Aspera#doc
• https://developer.ibm.com/aspera/
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Aspera on Cloud –
Customer Case Studies
 Business challenge
To help government organizations and
“Working with the IBM Cloud and Watson teams helps us find TV companies collaborate, Comtelsat
solutions that could help our clients truly transform their industry.”
wanted to make it easier to share,
—Israel Gómez, Director General, Comtelsat manage & distribute video content,
such as political campaign ads &
government broadcasts.
Transformation
Comtelsat used IBM Cloud and IBM
Aspera® to create applications that
provide a seamless process for
government agencies to create and
upload content, and for TV networks to
access and broadcast it.

Business benefits Comtelsat

90%
Faster content distribution process
empowers agencies to get new
content on-air in less than a day
Zero
Unplanned downtime ensures
important messages are
broadcast at the right time
Unlocks
The potential to harness AI for
automatic closed captioning and
content classification
Solution components
Enabling a new era of communication in political • IBM Aspera®
broadcasting with IBM Cloud solutions
• IBM® Cloud™ bare metal servers
• IBM Cloud Object Storage
With over 25 years of experience in the media & entertainment
industry, Comtelsat acts as a specialist systems integrator, providing
end-to-end services and solutions to help some of the world’s leading
broadcasters run their operations in Mexico and across Latin America.
 Challenge
Reliably and securely send large design documents between US and Japan at high
speed

Solution
• Aspera’s SaaS on IBM cloud infrastructure
Global Aerospace • The SaaS solution could be configured to run a highly restrictive mode to meet
Manufacturer all security requirements

Results
“Aspera is as good as advertised. It's not
• ~25 times faster transfers (>15 minutes vs. 6 hrs)
often that you come across a product that
• Spared annual consultant expenses of about $5M
lives up to its performance claims.” • First SaaS solution to meet very stringent requirements of federal contractors
– HEAD OF IT ARCHITECTURE

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“Together the solutions significantly
accelerate the turnaround time for data
processing while at the same time solving
the data throughput issue.”
- KURT FLORUS, CTO, BLUEBEE
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Enables hospitals, research centers & labs to accelerate processing and analysis of
large genomic data sets with its cloud-based platform
Challenge
Customers needed to quickly and reliably upload, process & analyze 10 TBs of
genomic data a week on BlueBee’s platform. Legacy file transfer tools lacked the
speed & security necessary to meet strict customer SLAs
Solution
• Aspera’s cloud-based solution clearly outperforms other competitive alternatives
tools, which are slower and more complicated
• Aspera’s software developer kit and Aspera’s native IBM cloud integration
enabled BlueBee to go live in hours
Results
• Enables customers to meet SLAs
• Accelerate critical research by improving upload speeds to the cloud by 35%,
even on the slow networks
• Supports future business growth with pay-go model & turnkey scalability
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Major global oil &
gas company
Connecting teams to key data, the
foundation for effective decision-making,
business success & growth
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Challenge
Existing data sharing solutions are too slow, ad hoc, manual, and cumbersome – also
lack security best practices. Large network transfers (100GB+) take many days to
complete while physically shipped disks take many days to deliver
Solution
• SaaS file sharing solution enables remote and central teams (internal & external) to
work on the same data at the same time
• Supports the diversity of technologies deployed in the company, national oil
companies, joint ventures and 3rd parties, and many data types, volumes and
formats being shared
• Offers a fully secure, scalable service with centralized reporting audit controls
Results
• Decreases ‘waiting’ time 97% with 2992% faster data transfers
• Enables more rapid workflows and new types of work to be undertaken
• Supports synchronization and much larger volumes of data
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 CHALLENGE
Global teams struggled to exchange very big collections of engineering and design files
daily with internal users and external customers, peers and partners.

SOLUTION
• Aspera’s solution has an intuitive UI that non-technical users could easily use
• Enables teams to send and receive files & entire directories of unlimited size and quantity
with reliable and predictable transfer times

“Aspera’s speed, security and ease of RESULTS

use enables us to provide quality • Increases team productivity significantly by replacing the slow, tedious file package
service to our valued customers.” compression & splitting up big collections of files into multiple transfers

– DIRECTOR OF IT • Significantly reduces OpEx compared to its former on-premises MFT solution
• Enables Jabil to do what it couldn’t do before, e.g., securely send 124 GB worth of data
spread across 3,400 files & many sub-folders in under 5 hours

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“It has made our transition from entirely office
based to entirely remote based working pretty
much seamless, allowing us to pick up from our
homes on the Monday almost exactly where we
had left off in the office on the Friday.”
- IAN MCGINTY, HEAD OF PRODUCTION
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Challenge
Needed to migrate all their data into the cloud and move their staff to home working
within a couple days.
Solution
• IBM Aspera’s cloud-based transfers for their file exchange solution
• IBM Cloud for all their project data storage in the cloud
• BASE Media Cloud managed multicloud services provides integrated media software
and data migration and training support
Results
• Transitioned from office-based work to 100% remote working within 2 days
• Seamlessly shared footage and collaborated with their team of editors and
freelancers on multiple projects from home
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“Moving to Aspera has enabled us to take control of
our assets. Now that the whole team is working from
home, we are able to securely manage the receipt and
delivery of files between the different stakeholders.
Fast file transfers mean we can continue to work
remotely without any delays.”
- SIGRID LARSEN, HEAD OF MEDIA SERVICES
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Provides encoding, quality control, subtitling, closed captioning and audio
description services to the film industry. They also manage all video and audio
assets for Arrow Films, an independent film distributor operating in the UK, Ireland
and US.
Challenge
When they went into lockdown in mid-March 2020, they saw increased demand for
their services and had to change the way they exchange files
Solution
• Aspera’s cloud-based solution for their file exchange system
• BASE Media Cloud multicloud managed services platform
Results
• Transformed disk image delivery to producers and QC operators
• They’re now able to regularly deliver 10 features around the world throughout
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Moving all video content to the cloud
so it can stream on demand to over
23 million customers
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CHALLENGE
To deliver streaming movies and TV shows to over 700 different devices,
Netflix must move, process and store over 50 terabytes of new content a
month from over 200 global partners.
SOLUTION
Uses Aspera’s on demand transfer solution with its Direct-to-Cloud object
storage technology to transport the content to its preferred cloud platform
RESULTS
• Enables on demand compute capacity control to execute high-speed
transfers
• Leverages the extreme scalability of the cloud when needed and
automatically scales down as transfer loads decrease
• Significantly reduces CapEx spending by eliminating the need to build its
own data centers
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Aspera Applications &
Clients
Aspera Faspex™
Applications and use cases
• Internal distribution of digital assets within the enterprise
• Collaboration enablement for geographically-distributed teams
• File-based review, approval and quality assurance workflows
• Digital delivery & collaborative file transfer with external partners

Key features and benefits

• Global person-to-person & ad-hoc file exchange & collaboration
• Easy to use web-based, email, mobile & desktop client interfaces
• Interoperable with Aspera Drive, Shares, Cargo & Faspex Mobile
• Easily create and manage work groups for file-based collaboration
• Enterprise-scale user management and access control
• Enhanced SAML support with just in time provisioning of Faspex users on SAML
login and support for SAML groups
• Automatic expiration of Faspex user accounts by inactivity
• SAML authentication for Faspex Mobile clients
• Advanced support for hybrid on premises and cloud content storage
• Robust search of packages and users by their attributes
• Unified login experience across local, SAML, and LDAP/AD users
• Authentication of users using multiple SAML identity providers
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Key Features in Aspera Faspex
Integration with IBM Aspera HTTP Gateway
• Enables Aspera Faspex to be used in highly restrictive
environments to leverage the Aspera FASP technology to
transfer data without requiring end users to install Aspera
Connect

Sender Quotas
• Control data leaks by setting up quotas for untrusted senders
• Configure byte transfer limits per sender in a given rolling
hour cycle
• Ability to exempt quota limits if sending to specific trusted
recipients
• Recipient domain white list
• Enhanced user experience

Ability to obfuscate file names

• Secure sensitive information stored in a file name by
obfuscating the file names at the time of upload

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Aspera Shares
Applications and use cases
• Internal distribution of digital assets within the enterprise
• Collaboration enablement for distributed teams
• Project team and third-party content or data gathering
• Global browser-based distribution of data

Key features and benefits

• Easy-to-use web application with secure access to a consolidated view of all shared
content on a file
• Supports direct drag-and-drop transfer between shares to “move” files between
globally distributed locations
• Full integration of shares user login and access control in the aspera desktop and high-
speed transfer server and transfer endpoint
• Content can be deployed across servers, private, public and hybrid clouds (e.g., AWS,
IBM cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google)
• Powerful security model administered with SAML just in time provisioning with SAML
group support and single management point to combine authorization, user
management, and access control
• Powerful search, filtering, and sorting capabilities make it easy to find individual files
or folders in a very large content store
• Shares are fully integrated as secure, access controlled receiving and publishing points
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Aspera Console
Applications and use cases
• Centrally manage, monitor and control all aspera file transfer
activity in the enterprise

Key features and benefits

• Highly scalable “pull” architecture
• Transfer load balancing and failover
• Prioritize & manage transfer speed & bandwidth utilization
• Centrally configure and manage transfer nodes
• Browse and initiate transfer jobs between remote sites, within and
between organizations
• Automate transfers, including scheduling and distribution
• Support transfers initiated behind an Aspera Proxy and easily manage
permission settings for sharing
• Create customized activity, usage and billing reports and notifications
• Single sign-on support through SAML
• Provide secure private views and control capabilities on individual transfers
and paths
• Open architecture for integration with business process management and
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Key Features in Aspera Console
Enhanced Watch Folder capabilities
• Ability to stop, start, pause, and resume a watch
folder
• Support both PUSH and PULL modes

Console communication to Host via Proxy

• Proxy communication for endpoint configuration

Removal of dependency on Adobe Flash

• Remove Flash dependency in Console

Tighter integration with Aspera on Cloud

• Show detailed metadata in Console dashboard for
Aspera on Cloud transfers

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Key Features in Aspera Console
Expanded security
• New support for multiple SAML certificate fingerprint algorithms
• Ability to specify a forward proxy when creating or configuring watch folders
• The console, mysql, and apache components can now be configured to use associated system users and groups

Transfer enhancements
• Support for transfers between two node API endpoints with IBM aspera high-speed transfer server/transfer endpoint (v3.8)
and above

Additional automation
• Console now supports a rake task to encrypt and decrypt the database.yml configuration file
• Console now supports a rake task to add managed nodes

Improvements to Aspera Console API

• Allows NODE API credentials to be updated in Console
• Changes the credentials used to connect to the SMTP server

Licensing
• The licensing model has been upgraded to provide customers access to an unlimited number of console users
Aspera clients
Aspera Connect

Aspera Connect
• Transfer between desktop systems and Aspera High-Speed Transfer Servers using a standard
browser that automatically launches Connect when initiating a FASP transfer
• Monitor transfer progress and control transfer rates outside of the browser

Aspera Drive Aspera Drive

• Quickly and securely share and exchange large files and data sets directly from the desktop
• Supports high-speed transfer, package sending and receiving, and background synchronization of
files and data sets of any size for Windows and Mac.

Aspera Desktop Client

• Full-featured desktop application for user-initiated transfers with the Aspera High-Speed Transfer
Aspera Desktop Client
Server or High-Speed Transfer Endpoint, available on Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Includes a visual transfer monitor, on-the-fly rate control, and a scriptable command line interface
supports unattended transfers and custom pre- and post-transfer file processing

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Key Features in Aspera Connect 3.9
Usability and UX Updates
• The use of browser extensions to facilitate the
app’s communication with the web browser
improves the reliability and integration of
launching Connect.
• Easier installation and upgrade procedures with
the guided assistance dialog and the new quick
installer that requires little interaction
• Benefits users of on-premise servers and Aspera
on Cloud

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Aspera Drive
Applications and use cases
• Internal distribution of digital assets within the enterprise
• Collaboration enablement for distributed teams
• Extends person-to-person file delivery workflows
• Receive consolidated packages from multiple Faspex servers in a single client
• Digital delivery & collaborative file transfer with external partners

Key features and benefits

• Integrated, secure desktop browsing from windows explorer and mac finder
• Browsing of remote Aspera servers content with aspera shares authentication
• Drag and drop to initiate high-speed transfer to and from remote shares
• Send a Faspex package and subscribe to automatically download Faspex
packages to the desktop
• Expanded support for Aspera Sync technology for maximum speed to sync any network file
system or local directory with other drive users or remote servers
• Includes full access control, privacy and security of the Aspera FASP technology
• Email notice for new package availability or new content uploaded to a share
• SAML authentication in addition to AD/LDAP and local user
• Works with high-speed transfer server, high-speed transfer endpoint node API accounts and
shares
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Key features in Aspera Drive
Multi-session Transfer
Maximize transfer throughput using multi-session transfers to
Aspera on-premises servers and Aspera on Cloud
UX Update for Account Login
Improved set up account wizard to streamline linking accounts
from Aspera on Cloud, Faspex, Shares, and High-Speed Transfer
Server
Ability to choose Aspera on Cloud Workspace for
Package downloads
The user will have the ability to choose which Aspera on Cloud
workspaces that Drive will automatically download packages
from

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Aspera mobile apps for iOS and Android
Aspera mobile apps portfolio – all available on iOS and Android
• Aspera on Cloud Mobile
• Faspex™ Mobile
• Mobile Uploader
• Drive Mobile

Applications and use cases

• Remote access to enterprise files for work on-the-go
• View and approve files, video and imagery from mobile devices Aspera on
Cloud Mobile
Mobile
Uploader
• Create, upload and publish remote content to rapidly collaborate with groups or individuals
• Viewing and approving documents as part of a file-based workflow

Key features and benefits

• Enables the transfer of large files over Wi-Fi and cellular networks at speeds that are many times
faster than traditional mobile transfer technologies
• Fully supports the FASP® security model with encryption in flight and at rest
• Provides look and feel of native device apps and integrate seamlessly with device cameras and
photo galleries
• Move full camera resolution, 720p, or 1080p videos at high-speed from mobile devices Faspex
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 Aspera on Cloud Mobile for iOS and Android
Application and use cases
• Distribution of large digital assets inside or outside of an enterprise network
• Mobile collaboration between distributed teams
• Remote mobile news submission, upload & publish to central hub

Key features
• Available for free download in mobile app stores; aspera servers are default enabled
for mobile capability
• Supports both package sending and file sharing modalities
• Easily browse, share & send remotely stored files and folders in your aspera on cloud
account directly from the mobile device
• Upload single or multiple items to aspera on cloud from nearly any app that
supports sharing functionality, including typical photo and video apps
• View the transfer status and final results in notification area

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Key Features in Aspera Command Line Interface (CLI)
Security: Private Key can be passed via Environment
Variable
Removed dependency to store the private key on the local disk,
e.g. when using CLI with Aspera on Cloud, the private key can be
passed through an environment variable

Support for Custom Tags

Custom metadata can be included with content transferred

Decryption Support
CLI can now perform both encryption and decryption of transfers
for the Aspera Node, Shares, and ATS download commands

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Core Aspera transfer
server software
Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server
Applications and use cases
• Enterprise-wide high-volume content ingest and distribution
• High-volume content ingest
• High-performance content distribution
• Integration with custom web applications
Key features and benefits
• Universal base transfer server for high-speed transfers of large data sets
• Comprehensive automation and scheduling
• Bulletproof security with user authentication, encryption in transit and at rest
• Advanced user and server management
• Complete monitoring and reporting
• High-availability configuration (active/active or active/passive)
• Deployable on premises or in the cloud (public, private, hybrid)
• Supports high-performance AES-GCM encryption
• Robust loss-adjusted-queue rate controller
• Rich APIs enable integration into any custom web application
Licensing and deployment
• Multi-tiered licensing based on bandwidth capacity
• Usage-based licensing with Aspera On Demand
• Comprehensive platform support: Linux, Windows, Mac, zLinux, Power
Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint
Applications and use cases
• Backup and recovery for large projects
• High-speed, secure content ingest & distribution over any network
• FTP/SFTP replacement for high-performance transfers

Key features and benefits

• High-speed FASP® transport with real-time transfer monitoring
and control
• Simple, intuitive user interface with command line scripting
available for transfer automation
• Precise graphical bandwidth control
• User authentication, encryption in transit and at rest and data integrity
verification
• Native key store for passwords using OS's native secret key store to store
passwords for remote connections, instead of a local persistent store
• Command line scripting option provides the means to automate transfers and add
custom pre- and post-transfer processing steps.
• Automation with scripting and custom post-processing
• Integrated scheduling, queuing, reordering control
• Automatic per-transfer and aggregate bandwidth control
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 Aspera Proxy Gateway
Transfer across secure DMZ

Applications and use cases

• Provide secure access to external Aspera transfer servers without exposing users’ IP addresses
• Enforce strict user authentication for Aspera clients that initiate connections to the outside servers
• Establish control and security around FASP transfers in and out of your network

Key features and benefits

• Provides secure, line-speed FASP® transfers in highly restrictive networks
• Kernel-level, software maintains all of the high-performance features of FASP
• Provides transparent pass thru of FASP transfer sessions without impeding performance
• Single proxy multiplexes client sessions to multiple Aspera Server hosts targets in reverse configuration, and multiple outbound client sessions in
forward configuration
• Load balancing and failover capability for fronting multiple Aspera hosts
• Supports both in-bound & out-bound with secure authentication of all Aspera sessions with both user squash & user preservation options
• Supported by all Aspera clients and servers natively
• Support for chained proxies, two or more in series, for two-tier DMZ configurations
• Load-balancing configuration for multiple internal servers using HA proxy clusters
• Works with Aspera HTTP Gateway that enables Aspera web applications to leverage Aspera technology to transfer data without requiring end users to
install third-party software
• Aspera HTTP Gateway acts as a bridge between a supported modern web browser and Aspera transfer servers, also known as nodes
• Aspera HTTP Gateway enables upload and download operations to the node by leveraging native web-browser capabilities using HTTP
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Aspera Sync
High-speed synchronization and replication
Cross platform software application designed for high performance
synchronization and replication of large file stores over the WAN

Key features and benefits

• High speed, multi-directional synchronization of remote files and directories
over global WANs
• Highly scalable – asperawatchd, a new ultra fast file system notification
service, is designed for speed, scale and distributed change watching to
synchronize giant file stores (>1 million files)
• Highly efficient – provides file-level de-duplication (bidirectional and
unidirectional mode) that eliminates unnecessary transfers, reduces sync
times and reduces storage use LZ compression for high performance on low
capacity networks
• Platform agnostic – runs on industry standard Linux and Windows
• Secure – matches security standards set by government, FIPS 140-2 compliant
• Storage agnostic – compatible with any standard file storage system and cloud-based object storage
• Eliminates the need for file system scanning in almost all cases. Immediately discovers changes in huge file
systems - up to 100 million items across thousands of directories
• Push, pull and bidirectional synchronization with object storage (AWS S3, Swift)
• Familiar rsync-like interface shrinks the learning curve for IT professionals
• Windows bidirectional synchronization tolerates open files during sync
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Content distribution / system mirroring Disaster recovery / business continuity

Web application

• Automatically replicate digital content from one system to • Replicate mission critical data from a primary site to one or
another more alternate sites
• Digital content is always available by offering high • Systems remain available after a system outage or site loss -
availability of service critical data is preserved

Hub and spoke for collection or distribution Data migration for diverse storage environments

• Daily collection or distribution of data across a large network • Replicate entire file system, or portions of the file system
of end points • Preserve file attributes such as permissions, access times,
• Continuous update of online content, software & media ownership, etc.
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Performance benchmarks
First run
Small file synchronization Large file synchronization
Performance comparison synchronizing many small files Performance comparison synchronizing many large files (average
(average size 100 KB) over WAN of 100ms/1% size 100 MB) over WAN of 100ms/1%
Small files No. of Data set size Sync time Throughput Large file No. of files Data set size Sync time Throughput
performance files performance (GB)

Async 978,944 93.3 GB 9,968 sec 80.4 Mbps Async 5,194 500.1 GB 4,664 sec 921 Mbps
(2.8 hours) (1.3 hours)

rsync 978,944 93.3 GB 814,500 sec 0.99 Mbps rsync 5,194 500.1 GB 4,320,000 sec 0.98 Mbps
(9.4 days) (50 days)

Performance Improvement 81x Performance Improvement 940x

Second run
Small file synchronization Large file synchronization
Synchronization time after adding 31,056 files to 1 million Synchronization time after adding new files to set of large files
small files (100 KB each) over WAN of 100ms/1% (100 MB) over WAN of 100ms/1%
Change file No. of No. of files Total Sync time Through Change file No. of No. of files Total Sync time Throughput
performance existing files added size -put performance existing files added size

Async 978,944 31,056 2.97 947 sec 26.9 Async 5,194 54 5.49 54 sec 871 Mbps
GB (16 min) Mbps GB

rsync 978,944 31,056 2.97 37,08 sec 0.68 rsync 5,194 54 5.49 54,573 sec 0.86 Mbps
GB (10.3 hrs) Mbps GB (15 hrs)

Performance Improvement 39x Performance Improvement 1000x

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visit us at www.ibm.com/aspera
Appendix
Remember how it used to be done?

Compressed via
satellite (compressed
SD/HD-SDI) Compressed via
270mbps fiber 270mbps fiber
(uncompressed SD-SDI)
(compressed SD/HD-SDI)

45mhz satellite “HD” circuit (1.5mbps -

uncompressed or compressed
(uncompressed analog)
HD-SDI)

TV1 circuit Dedicated IP (MPLS,

(uncompressed analog) specialized carriers)

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