The new capabilities will help companies speed global movement of big data on premise and through the cloud.
IBM has announced it has completed the acquisition of Aspera, Inc., a privately held company that securely speeds the movement of massive data files around the world. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Aspera's patented technology accelerates the secure transfer of large files or data sets by up to 99.9% — potentially reducing a 26 hour transmission of a 24 gigabyte file, sent halfway around the world, down to just 30 seconds. This speed is achieved by Aspera's patented fasp™ protocol,which breaks the bottlenecks inherent in broadband networks to deliver high performance, efficiency and security in the most difficult WAN environments. This also gives customers a more efficient way to transport data to and from cloud networks.