IBM Aspera
When the deadline is fixed and the file is enormous, ordinary transfer is the thing that lets you down.
Every organisation has data that has to be somewhere else by a certain time – a broadcast feed, a genome, a seismic survey, a design file a partner is waiting on. As that data grows and the distances stretch, the tools most businesses rely on quietly give up: transfers slow to a fraction of the line speed, fail partway, and restart from zero, while the bill climbs with every gigabyte. The deadline does not move. The data does not shrink. Something has to give.
Dot Group has delivered Aspera into some of the most demanding transfer environments in Europe, much of it in media and broadcast where a missed transfer is a missed transmission.
Move at the full speed of your network, not a fraction of it
Aspera’s patented FASP™ protocol uses all the bandwidth available to you, regardless of file size, transfer distance, or network conditions, and the further and larger the transfer, the bigger the advantage over FTP. What once took hours or days moves in minutes, whether you are migrating to the cloud, distributing globally, or exchanging huge files with partners.
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Every transfer arrives, even when the network doesn’t cooperate
Interrupted transfers resume automatically from the point of failure rather than starting again, with accurate delivery-time estimates you can actually plan around. For teams working to hard deadlines over long distances or unreliable links, that means guaranteed completion instead of hopeful retries – the difference between a file that lands overnight and one you are still chasing in the morning.
Security built into every block, not bolted on afterwards
Aspera protects data with encryption in transit and at rest, integrity verification on every transmitted block, and built-in user authentication, so sensitive files stay protected end to end. It is the same security posture trusted by research, defence, and broadcast organisations moving high-value data. And it sits comfortably alongside the wider governance and monitoring capabilities we deliver through tools like IBM Guardium.
Cloud simplicity and on-premises control at a cost you can forecast
IBM Aspera Hybrid pairs a cloud management interface with an on-premises transfer server, so your team manages everything from one place while the data itself stays under your control. Particularly important when sovereignty or sensitivity is on the line. Transfers and user accounts are unlimited, and pricing is not tied to volume, so moving a petabyte is as predictable as moving a gigabyte.
IBM Aspera in action
Aspera rarely lands on an empty desk. It usually replaces an FTP server, a legacy managed-file-transfer tool, or a workflow held together with scripts and workarounds. The hard part is rarely the software; it is fitting it cleanly into live systems without disrupting the work that depends on them. Dot Group sizes the right deployment, embeds high-speed transfer into your existing portals and applications through the Aspera SDK and APIs, and supports it for the long term. So the capability shows up where your people already work.
Aspera looks different in every industry. But the problem is always the same: too much data, not enough time. See how it solves yours.
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