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Aspera Announces Major Upgrade to High-Speed File Transfer Software Suite at IBC 2010

September 10th, 2010

Aspera, Inc. creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s digital assets at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance or network conditions, today introduced major upgrades to its fasp™ family of products. The latest releases feature the next generation faspex person-to-person file exchange application with new, enterprise-scale transfer, server and user management capabilities, the next-generation of the patented fasp transport core, and multiple enhancements that expand Aspera’s embeddable software and SDK to support the rapidly growing community of third-party applications building on its high-speed file transfer platform.

In a separate announcement also issued today, Aspera introduced several new products that help film, broadcast and digital media producers synchronize large file repositories with maximum speed across global networks, automate even the most complex transfer workflows, and extend the fasp transport efficiency to mobile users on challenging wireless networks. At IBC 2010, Aspera is demonstrating its software and is also showcasing ultra high-speed WAN transfer solutions with major storage vendors EMC, HP, and Isilon, and cloud computing leader Amazon Web Services. Stop by the Aspera booth 7.G11 to see a demonstration of the product and partner technologies detailed below.

New Product Functionality at a Glance

Aspera faspex™ 2.0

The next generation of Aspera’s global person-to-person file exchange software introduces a new streamlined web interface and new support for enterprise-wide deployments. Key new features include:

* Enterprise-scale Active Directory integration for very large user bases (thousands of individuals)
* Automatic package forwarding between servers throughout the enterprise
* Support for the new Aspera Cargo, a personal client application that provides Aspera faspex Server end-users with an easy-to-use email-inspired interface for sending and receiving digital files including automatic download of new packages
* A comprehensive automation API for third-party applications to publish to and receive files from faspex using fasp

Enterprise Server, Aspera Client and Point-to-Point 2.7

The latest generation of Aspera’s core fasp file transfer software features new capabilities for massively scalable transfer workflows including support for unlimited data sizes (multi-terabytes) per transfer session, and any number of files, directory sources, or file ranges, including adding new files and file ranges to active transfers, through persistent sessions. Key new features include:

* Unlimited file session sizes, including transfers over many terabytes
* Optimized rate control mechanism for virtualized systems on VMware
* Enhanced partial-file transfer management
* New reliable query API enhancing Aspera’s web services API for easy, scalable monitoring of large numbers of transfer nodes

Aspera Console 1.5

The latest version of Aspera’s centralized management platform provides a powerful new indexing and reporting engine for building customizable, business-specific reports of transfer history. Key new features include:

* Customizable reporting engine for user-defined reports
* Ability to create custom indices for project, media, user or other criteria and tailor report content and format to sort and aggregate upon built-in or custom fields
* Option to schedule automatic reports exported via email or imported into Excel and other standard tools
* Support for automatic backup and purge of Console data
* Built-in Secure Shell (SSH) tunnels for secure, minimalist management connections
* Performance enhancements for large scale transfer databases (millions of records)

Connect Server 2.7 and Connect browser plug-in 2.6

The full suite of Aspera’s most popular client and server applications acquires a core set of new functionality with the recent software release. For third-party web applications, Aspera will preview a new SDK component for minimalist integration of fasp transfers within the browser.

Key new few features include:

* New features of the Enterprise Server 2.7
* Automatic installation on all browsers (Aspera Connect browser plug-in)
* Support for IE8 and Chrome browsers (Aspera Connect browser plug-in)
* Non-administrative install on all platforms
* Automatic detection of HTTP proxy settings for HTTP fallback mode in restrictive environments

Partner Solutions Overview

Multiple storage vendors, including EMC, HP and Isilon, have recently introduced breakthrough solutions with Aspera fasp transport technology running on commodity hardware for transfers of large media files and file sets over worst-case global Internet conditions at several Gigabits per second in a single transfer stream.

At IBC, learn about the Aspera solution that has demonstrated in-order transfers of 2K and 4K frame files over global Internet conditions at 3.5 Gigabits per second, a speed faster than real-time HD, enabling a 2-hour movie to be sent across continents in under 15 minutes.

Source:http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100909006921/en

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Aspera Releases Enhanced Person-to-Person File Delivery Software for Global Collaboration and Exchange

September 9th, 2010

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Aspera, Inc., creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s digital assets at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance or network conditions, today released the next-generation of its faspex(TM) person-to-person file delivery software. Based on the performance and reliability of Aspera’s industry-standard transport software, Aspera faspex Server 2.0 provides an intuitive, efficient way for individuals or groups to collaborate and exchange files and directories of any size, while benefitting from Aspera’s unrivalled transfer speed.

Facing stiffer competition in a global economy, corporations require “FedEx”-like capabilities in the electronic domain — speed, guaranteed delivery, priority service levels — with uncompromising security, comprehensive management, tracking and monitoring. faspex Server enables the global enterprise to collaborate, outsource and geographically distribute data processing in all industries.

Key applications include:

– Global collaboration — Enables rapid sharing of data for geographically distributed teams working collaboratively

– Digital asset distribution — Facilitates corporate-wide replacement of e-mail attachments and shared volumes paradigms for exchanging and distributing data

– Internal file-based workflows — Allows for streamlined, remote review and approval, and global quality assurance processes

– Outsourcing — Enables high-speed data exchange with remote partners

How faspex Server Works

Users simply create and receive digital deliveries from an easy-to-use web interface or simple desktop application that closely replicates the experience of sending an e-mail. Recipients are notified via e-mail and Aspera’s patented fasp(TM) transport technology handles the movement of data to and from the server. Built for the most demanding enterprise workflows, the Aspera faspex Server includes comprehensive user and server administration capabilities and can be monitored and controlled via Aspera Console, Aspera’s centralized web-based transfer management application.

“Overcoming network bottlenecks is a huge priority as enterprises become increasingly dispersed and busy professionals need to share content across global boundaries,” said Michelle Munson, president and co-founder of Aspera. “Designed for the enterprise, faspex enables individuals and groups to quickly and reliably share files over IP networks. The new release features an enhanced user interface, supports deployments of thousands of users with centralized management, enhanced configuration capabilities, and synchronized user management to achieve new levels of efficiency and control across the enterprise.”

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/aspera-releases-enhanced-person-to-person-file-delivery-software-for-global-collaboration-and-exchange-2010-09-09?reflink=MW_news_stmp

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Aspera software available through the emc select program

July 31st, 2010

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Aspera, Inc., creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s digital assets at maximum speed, today announced that its core transfer client, server and management software product line is now available through EMC® Select, a program which helps customers easily acquire components that comprise an information infrastructure.

Aspera software offers large productivity gains in the enterprise through the ability to access, manage and move large volumes of bulk data over global wide area networks (WANs), at unprecedented speeds and with extraordinary bandwidth control.

At the core of all Aspera products, is the patented fasp™ protocol – which handles all file transfers with the highest levels of performance and delivers full bandwidth utilization regardless of transfer distance and network conditions, unprecedented policy-based bandwidth control, as well as uncompromising data security and reliability.

Fasp is built upon a flexible, lightweight, embeddable and highly scalable software-only architecture.

Aspera software is capable of exceeding the WAN transfer performance and scalability limits of traditional CIFS and NFS protocols in network-attached storage (NAS) environments. On Linux and Windows platforms, this NAS limitation can be addressed by using EMC® Celerra® with MPFS (Multi-Path File System).

MPFS delivers high-performance read and write I/O of high-speed Aspera file transfers by using iSCSI or Fibre Channel protocols to directly access the backend storage subsystem.

In joint performance testing using Aspera software and EMC Celerra MPFS, large, multi-Gigabyte files and data sets were transferred at 3 Gbps over global WANs with worst-case Internet conditions (300 milliseconds round-trip time and 5% packet loss) – this is over 1000 times the speed of TCP-based transport protocols, such as FTP, HTTP, scp or rsync under the same conditions.

Running in conjunction with EMC Celerra, EMC CLARiiON®, and EMC Symmetrix® storage systems, Aspera enables the following data-moving applications to work at global distances over commodity IP networks: file transfer to, from and between cloud computing nodes, data collaboration and sharing, high-performance computing, user access to centralized storage, FTP replacement, data management, migration, synchronization, replication, disaster/recovery and more.

Aspera Products

The Aspera Enterprise Server is a universal file transfer server for gathering and serving up files, directories and large data sets with unrivalled performance and transfer concurrency.

The Aspera Connect Server adds a web front-end to the Aspera Enterprise Server and provides browser plug-in client architecture, making it the ideal solution for web applications and large user collaboration.

The Aspera Client and Point-to-Point desktop applications allow for transfer initiation and automation with Aspera servers.

Aspera Console is a web-based network-wide transfer management and monitoring interface; providing centralized control and visibility over a wide array of Aspera transfer nodes.

All products can be run standalone or integrated into third-party applications or products using the fasp SDK, a comprehensive software development kit providing web services, embedded native library, and browser based APIs.

“Aspera software seamlessly integrates with the EMC storage portfolio. Aspera’s fasp WAN performance truly complements the benefits of EMC storage,” said Matt Mainstruck, manager of the EMC Select Program. “We are excited to welcome Aspera to EMC Select.”

“Working with EMC, we can offer ultra-high speed file transfer and storage solutions that are capable of delivering unprecedented multi-Gbps movement of large data over global, wide area networks,” said Michelle Munson, Aspera president and co-founder. “For customers in many industries, this is a game-changing proposition, allowing them to move terabytes around the world in minutes, rather than days.”

Aspera client and server software solutions can be easily deployed on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux or Unix platforms.

Source:http://www.melodika.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48594&Itemid=50