What is IBM Aspera on Cloud?

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Aspera on Cloud is IBM's on-demand SaaS offering for global content transfer and exchange. The service enables organizations to move large files and data sets – securely and reliably – across on-premises and multi-cloud environments at unrivaled speed.

Using Aspera on Cloud, organizations can store and readily access files and folders in multiple cloud-based and on-premises storage systems. Sharing among users is as easy as browsing or dragging-and-dropping – regardless of where the files are located – freeing collaboration from traditional boundaries among colleagues in both local and remote locations.

Aspera on Cloud uses IBM Aspera's FASP protocol, which overcomes the limitations of other file-transfer technologies. By moving large data sets at maximum speed, reliably and securely – regardless of network conditions, physical distance between sites, and file size, type, or number – Aspera technology enables a new world of collaboration, sharing, and content delivery.

Aspera on Cloud highlights include the following:

  • Domain security within the application
  • Intuitive file management tools
  • Multiple permission or access levels for individual files and folders, configurable per user or group
  • Ability to send content to multiple recipients using an intuitive, email-like interface
  • Simple sharing of files and folders
  • Configurable permissions to share with and send to outside users who do not have an Aspera on Cloud account
  • Comprehensive administrative console
  • Support for IBM Aspera transfer service, enabling automated self-scaling of transfer capacity to maximize performance while minimizing cost
  • RESTful Platform API (including users, permissions, transfers, and reporting)
    For AoC API documentation, see IBM API Hub. For more information about integrations and related APIs, see Integration and APIs.