High Performance Wide Area File and Content Delivery

Businesses and organizations across diverse industries need to manage and quickly transfer large files over wide area networks. They also need to ensure that these files are delivered on time within a given data transfer window through varying network conditions and bandwidth capacity.

Aspera and Isilon Systems have partnered to create the first predictable, non-disruptive high performance Wide Area File and Content Delivery solution designed specifically for moving large files long distances, at the fastest possible speed. Aspera Enterprise Server for Isilon IQ, a software application running directly on Isilon scale-out storage, provides a cluster-aware version of Aspera high-speed file transfer technology.

Single File System, Single Point of Management

• Managing the distribution of large file sets is easy with the Isilon Scale-out Storage Platform. Through a single volume, single file system, we’ve taken the complexity out of storage management tasks and you can easily manage all of your data in a single pool of storage. As file transfer needs expand, simply add performance or capacity to the Isilon cluster, without having to manage servers and storage separately.  The Aspera Enterprise Server for Isilon IQ collapses the server and storage tier into a single, common storage and transfer management pool.
• Performance and capacity can be adjusted without any downtime. If more performance is needed, simply use the Aspera Central Console to assign more bandwidth to a transfer across the cluster, or add Isilon nodes or IQ Accelerators to the cluster.

Predictable Performance Control

• Aspera’s adaptive rate control and aggregate bandwidth management capability provides cluster-aware bandwidth throttling across the Isilon cluster. As content delivery needs shift, Aspera provides a site-wide control console to manage performance and bandwidth across all transfers. 
• Aspera automatically spreads large file and dataset transfers over cluster nodes, allowing massive Gigabit per second throughputs in minutes, as opposed to hours. As content delivery needs shrink during off-peak hours, administrators can simply “scale back” transfers across fewer Isilon nodes, which can then be reassigned to other projects or tasks.

Predictable Transfers

• Aspera Enterprise Server for Isilon IQ eliminates shrinking file transfer windows, so even the largest file transfers are completed in a predictable manner within a given timeframe.
• Along with Isilon's SmartConnect™ software application, Aspera Enterprise Server for Isilon permits transfer zones to be created, where portions of the cluster are dedicated to Aspera clients, or other clients connected to the same cluster during shared usage periods.

High Availability and Load Balancing

• With Isilon’s SmartConnect™ software application, all Aspera fasp clients connected to the cluster through SmartConnect are protected from node or component failures, and load balanced across all active zones – without losing Aspera fasp client connections during business-critical file transfers.
• In the rare event of a failure, Aspera clients are seamlessly redirected from one node to another through SmartConnect.
• Maximum storage, bandwidth, and CPU utilization rates are achieved, with all nodes working in parallel on individual or multiple transfers.

Proven Reliability

• When projects scale you need data protection to match the value and size of the files. Isilon’s FlexProtect in the OneFS Operating System provides N+1 through N+4 reliability for the entire clustered storage system or within a subset of the system, such as a directory.