Aspera with Object Storage

Many of us are using a cloud storage solution such Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and so on.
But are does solutions good enough for your business?

Are your management unsecure if it is secure enough or want to keep better control because of legal reason or any reason.

There is many solutions out there that can fit for your, and if you build the solution on an Object Storage base, you will then see even more possibility to secure your data both from a backup and restore perspective and also to use the better technology in the right place.

During this week have I got time to play with Aspera and Spectrum Scale together and see how it works.
And to summarizing my conclusion with only one sentence.

 “Wow, LOL, it’s so much fun and great combinations I can do”.

To just start with is to be able to send data much faster than regular TCP, in our lab do we got a 100Mbps Internet access and we normally get 2 MB/s when we upload to United States and I think because of the latency / test hardware / network speed I think this could be good numbers.
But by only adding Aspera to this test environment do we get out 9,7MB/s of exact the same distance / hardware and network link, and I also limited Aspera to only use maximum 10MB/s

Then add all functionality that Aspera has such File Sync, BYOD Access, Web Upload/Download, bandwidth control, E-Mail plug-in and much more in to the same solution.
Add the function of to have the unlimited scalability that Spectrum Scale can add where you can add any sorts of commodity hardware such Real Flash, All-Flash, Disk, Tape and Cloud storage in same solution, where the filesystem are extremely clever and can do a lot of automation for you.

Let’s say when you are done with your project, Spectrum Scale will then automatic create a copy to cloud, archive it to Cloud, make sure it’s available for everyone in their own device.
And as soon everyone have read it Aspera can then delete the original file from the expansive tier and you can then only keep the archive copy on cheaper media.
All this without to have a single person involved.

To keep this blog short and not write all millions of ideas I got to only spend 1 day with these two products together will I now end here. If you want to know more I’m more than happy to talk more.