Presentation from BioData World in Basel How to Move Your Large Data Sets By 2025, Life Sciences will have a 4X- 5X growth in data, exceeding Astronomy & YouTube the largest generators of data in the world at the moment. Aspera can solve the BigData transport by providing next-generation transport technologies that move data at maximum speed, regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Aspera FASP is already widely used in Life Science Industry and has become a standard protocol for BigData transport.

1. Faster Discovery,
Better Results with
IBM Aspera
Benefits of Big Data in the Cloud and How to
Move Your Large Data Sets
Winter 2018

2. IBM Aspera’s Mission
Creating next-generation transport technologies that move the
world’s digital assets at maximum speed, regardless of file size,
transfer distance and network conditions
Reference Life Science Customers:
we can move
100 TB of data a day

3. The Exponential Growth of Scientific Data
• 20 research institutions
currently store over 100
petabytes of genomics data
• By 2025, as many as 2 billion
human genomes could be
sequenced, representing a 4X-
5X growth in data, exceeding
Astronomy, YouTube & Twitter
– 3 of the largest generators of
data in the world
PLOS Biology Journal, 2015Source
High-performance computing research tools and digital life science technologies
are creating huge volumes of data – especially in the area of genomics

4. Can’t reliably send, share, and sync large files and data sets over global
internet connections
Unable to move big data at high-speed with existing network bandwidth
Subject to slower times and more congestion for global file transfers across
public internet, corporate MPLS, wireless and mobile networks
Limited options to access and store data across cloud, hybrid or on-premises
infrastructures
Need greater security & more control in moving files & data sets to employees,
researchers, vendors, & external data centers, without impacting other traffic
Control
Size & Volume
Speed
Distance
Infrastructure
Fundamental Big Data Movement Challenges

5. 5
“The Aspera technology proved to be not only fast and reliable, but also
secure, as the sensitive data can be encrypted at rest and in transit.”
Dr. Jürgen Zimmermann, Senior Engineer, Automation at EMBL
• 30+ TB data each week
• Volume doubles every 18 months
• 10 PB today, expect 500 PB buy 2020
Solution
Replaced unreliable FTP and insecure & expensive hard drive shipments with high-speed Aspera Server
embedded into existing IT infrastructure, taking less than 2 days to fully deploy
Results
• Data delivery speeds improved over 100x for data sets reaching 30GB per sample, accelerating critical
research while reducing costs
• EMBL now transfers up to 10000 TB/year globally at high-speed with no data loss
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

6. Use Cases for Life Sciences
Fast, Secure Global Data
Sharing for Research
Collaboration
Bulk Genomic Data Transfer
for NGS Core Facilities
Real-time HD Microscopy &
Medical Image Streaming
Global File Sync and
Sharing for Distributed
Engineering
High-Speed Data Import for
Cloud-based Data Analysis

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CHALLENGE
Needed a fast & secure solution to frequently transfer huge digital
medical images and datasets globally that ranged from 10s of
terabytes in size
SOLUTION
Deployed Aspera’s cloud-based file exchange solution that provided
fast, secure and reliable file transfers between its central storage in
Munich, public cloud storage, and its customers based all of the world.
RESULTS
Improved data transfer performance by 14x with complete
reliability, which enabled Definiens to accelerate crucial customer data
transfers and support projects with ever-increasing data volumes
“Aspera has enabled us to handle larger
datasets with ease. This makes a very
positive first impression especially
amongst our new customers”
- KAI HARTMANN, VICE PRESIDENT OF PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT, DEFINIENS

8. 8
Aspera FASP Technology
High-Performance File Transfer
Fast
Adaptive
Secure
Protocol
FTP on “steroids”

9. Access & APIs Automation &
Integration
Real-time
visibility &
control
Delivery Collaboration Synchronization
FASP® Patented High-Speed Transport
Any Data Size, Distance, Network Any Storage: Block, Object, On Premises, Cloud Any Data: Files, Streams
Secure high-speed transfer clusters connecting
public, private & hybrid clouds
Web, Desktop,
Email, Mobile, CLI,
Custom App, SDKs,
REST, Java & more
IBM ASPERA PLATFORM OVERVIEW

10. A hosted service that enables organizations to securely and reliably move large files and data
sets across on-premises and multi-cloud environments at unrivaled speed
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ASPERA ON CLOUD

11. Recap - IBM Aspera Benefits
High Performance Across Distance
Complete Built-in Security / AES
Maximum Efficiency for Large Sets of
Files in any Size
100% Data Integrity / Reliable
Infrastructure Agnostic with Native
Cloud Integration
Integration with Software Applications

12. Questions?
we can move
100 TB of
data a day