{"id":9809,"date":"2013-12-19T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=14914"},"modified":"2013-12-19T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T14:23:40","slug":"ibm-acquires-aspera-for-fast-big-data-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-acquires-aspera-for-fast-big-data-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Acquires Aspera for Fast Big Data Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>IBM today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire\u00a0Aspera,\u00a0a privately held company based in Emeryville, California. This provides IBM with new and complementary capabilities to better enable companies to move Big Data, on premise or in the cloud, at global distances with the speed required by today&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n<p>Aspera\u2019s patented extreme file transfer technology accelerates the secure transfer of large files and large collections of files by up to 99.9 percent \u2013 reducing a 26 hour transmission of a 24 gigabyte file, sent halfway around the world, down to just 30 seconds. This speed is powered by Aspera\u2019s patented&#8221;\u00a0fasp protocol&#8221;,\u00a0which breaks the bottlenecks inherent in broadband networks to achieve high performance, efficiency and security in the most difficult WAN environments. Recently awarded an Emmy for engineering, Aspera is used at virtually every major Hollywood studio, cable provider and pharmaceutical company with leading brands such as Netflix, PBS and Universal Studios.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=062d1ee1-15de-4ec4-895b-775e9aa22abd\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/q6Paq87XroE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire&nbsp;Aspera,&nbsp;a privately held company based in Emeryville, California. This provides IBM with new and complementary capabilities to better enable companies to move Big Data, on premise or in the cloud, at global distances with the speed required by today&rsquo;s business. Aspera&rsquo;s patented extreme file [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1744,156,799,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aspera","category-big-data","category-ibm","category-ma-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}