IBM High Speed Cloud Transfer

IBM High Speed Cloud Transfer  is designed to provide industry-leading, fast and scalable transfers for big data applications on the major cloud platforms including IBM Softlayer, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. IBM High Speed Cloud Transfer supports the transport, distribution, sharing, collaboration and exchange of big data with multiple Aspera bundled applications to meet your specific needs. Built on IBM Aspera Fast, Adaptive, Secure Protocol transfer technology, IBM High Speed Cloud Transfer customers can transfer data of virtually any size in, out and across cloud infrastructures with enterprise-grade encrypted security.

IBM High Speed Cloud Transfer provides:

• Direct integration with cloud object storage to deliver industry-leading cloud transfer performance, unlike other products that require multiple steps to write to object storage.
• Flexible cloud platform deployment that allows you to deploy the entire stack of web applications, transfer servers and storage on major cloud platforms or in any hybrid infrastructure combining on premises and cloud.
• Patented Aspera FASP transfer technology provides maximum transfer speeds to, from and across cloud platforms, independent of latency and packet loss.
• Enterprise grade security for user authentication, data integrity verification and data encryption, user management, reporting options and more. 

  Direct integration with cloud object storage

• Directs high-speed transfer to object storage in a single transfer session up to the I/O cloud platform limits.
• Supports multiple storage types and location—block, object, on-premises, cloud or hybrid cloud storage. 
• Supports high-speed transfers of directories containing virtually any number of individual files, even for millions of small files.

• Flexible cloud platform deployment

• Supports multiple storage types and location—block, object, on-premises, cloud or hybrid cloud storage.
• Supports one-to-one, hub and spoke, cloud-to-data center, and cloud-to-cloud transfer scenarios.
• Offers interoperable transfer support with all core Aspera products acting as transfer peers with the cloud storage.

• Patented Aspera FASP transfer technology

• Enables maximum transfer speeds globally for massive file sizes and data sets with full use of network bandwidth capacity.
• Provides pause and resume capability and automatic restart and checkpoint resume of any transfer from the point of interruption.
• Provides exceptional concurrent transfer support for many concurrent transfers per virtual machine.
• Supports adaptive rate control that initiates high-speed transfers while remaining fair to other TCP traffic.
• Enables both preset and immediate prioritization of transfers.

• Enterprise grade security

• Enables secure authentication with encryption in-flight and at-rest in the cloud.
• Provides user management based on application, directory service or identity provider accounts.
• Enables data security measures including data integrity verification and data encryption in transit and at rest on cloud storage.
• Supports IBM Aspera FASP Proxy on the client side in both forward and reverse modes.
• Provides account management, transfer logging, activity monitoring and reporting capabilities.