Automate actions when files arrive

Workflow Automation with Aspera Orchestrator

Aspera Orchestrator is IBM Aspera’s premier workflow management product. It is in use around major enterprises around the world to handle mission critical workflows. Flexible in architecture, it can be scaled up to handle hundreds or even thousands of concurrent work orders. It can be deployed in high available, resilient clusters with components distributed in different locations. We can assist with deployment as well as building workflows using features from a library of plugins.

  • Conversant with the Aspera FASP© protocol and can detect session stops, success/failure conditions, etc.
  • Support for FTP and other non-FASP transfers
  • Integrates with 3rd party products and API’s with plugins
  • Library of 200+ plugins available; additional plugins can be developed as necessary
  • Plugins available for many common media products such as transcoders, QC, FIMS, ADI, etc.
  • Dashboard to visually display various workflows, and state of individual work orders
  • Drill down into individual work orders, stop/restart them, and manage them directly from the web interface
  • Various user roles available to secure user permissions by functional need
  • Can interact with multiple remote nodes, Aspera high speed transfer nodes or third-party
  • Supports SAML 2 factor authentication as well as other authentication schemes
  • Resilient, high performance cluster setups to handle heavy workflow loads
  • Support for user inputs in automated workflows, such as approval for release
  • Land files in the DMZ, virus scan them, and pull them to internal network if clean
  • Validate files after few bytes of transfer to prevent unnecessary data transfer of unacceptable files
  • Collect metadata with submissions and use package metadata automate post transfer actions
  • Verify package has all necessary files for a submission
  • Take customized actions depending on whether a particular transfer session was successful
  • Expectations workflows where actions take place if an event does not happen
  • Move files and set up triggers for CI/CD workflows

High Speed Transfer Server Post Processing

Automate with IBM Aspera on Cloud

  • Automation as a service from the IBM Cloud
  • Initiate workflows on the cloud automatically upon file transfers
  • Automate data movement between premise and cloud locations based on metadata profiles
  • Schedule automated transfers, API calls or transfer event notifications
  • Automate cloud services to act on data once uploads are complete
  • Segregated user roles
  • SAML and Google Oauth2 authentication support
  • Support for API clients and JWT security

Implement solutions without having to manage servers

  • Content ingest, distribution, or collaborative workflows with big data using IBM Aspera on Cloud
  • AWS and IBM Cloud based serverless workflows
  • Customized solutions for unique needs
  • We can implement the solution as a managed service

Serverless Workflows

Backup to Cloud

IBM Cloud or AWS

  • Strategies for premise-based big data storage
  • Strategies for databases
  • Incremental backups from individual user’s laptop or workstation
  • Secure strategies
  • Scalable solutions
  • Managed service