ARMONK, N.Y., May 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that Jabil Circuit (NYSE: JBL), a leading supply
chain management and electronics manufacturing company, has
deployed high-speed file transfer solutions from Aspera, an IBM
company, running on the IBM Cloud to enable global users to send
and exchange high-value design and engineering files quickly and
reliably.
Jabil manages customers' supply chains from product development
through design engineering to final manufacturing. As Jabil's
business has grown, so too has its need for faster exchanges of
increasingly larger design files – such as CAD models and circuit
diagrams – with global customers, peers and partners in order to
bring innovative products to market quickly, reliably and
securely.
Jabil selected Aspera faspex On Demand to simplify
collaboration between geographically dispersed team members,
partners and customers. Using Aspera, Jabil is able to transfer
files of unlimited size and quantity, and even entire directory
structures, with reliable delivery times and accurate transfer
completion time estimates. On Jabil's most difficult production
transfer, 124 GB worth of data spread across 3,400 files from
several sub-folders was sent securely over the public Internet in
less than 5 hours.
With faspex On Demand, Jabil can utilize the one-step
Direct-to-Cloud technology to improve the transfer speed of design
files to and from IBM's Object Storage offering. By leveraging
platform-specific features and Aspera's patented FASP technology
that is natively integrated into Object Storage APIs, users can
effortlessly exchange files at high speed to other internal and
external users.
The solution replaces their legacy MFT solution, which was
costly, slow and impractical for the massive data sizes and volumes
they required. In addition, the legacy solution limited transfer
file size, which required the sender to split up and compress large
files and folders before sending in pieces to recipients. This made
the end-to-end process of sending large files and folders much more
complex and time consuming.
"As a company dedicated to providing better, faster and cheaper
services to our customers, we knew we needed a new solution more
aligned with our service objectives," said Dan Eng, Director of IT at Jabil. "We found the
answer in Aspera. The solution's speed, security and ease of use
enable us to provide quality service to our valued customers."
"The advantage of running faspex deployed on the IBM
Cloud is the unlimited scalability and flexibility offered by the
integrated solutions, so Jabil can streamline their file exchange
processes and enable global accessibility for effective
collaboration on projects," said Michelle
Munson, CEO and co-founder of Aspera.
About Aspera
Aspera, an IBM company, is the creator of next-generation
transport technologies that move the world's data at maximum speed
regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions.
Part of IBM Cloud, Aspera software is powered by the Emmy®
award-winning FASP® protocol to deliver the fastest, most
predictable file-transfer, share and sync experience across
on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure. Aspera's core
technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete
security and uncompromising reliability. Organizations across a
variety of industries on six continents rely on Aspera software for
the business-critical transport of their digital assets. Please
visit http://www.asperasoft.com and follow us on Twitter
@asperasoft for more information.
About Jabil Circuit
Jabil is an electronic product solutions company providing
comprehensive electronics design, production and product management
services to global electronics and technology companies. Offering
complete product supply chain management from facilities in 28
countries, Jabil provides comprehensive,
individualized-focused solutions to customers in a broad range of
industries.
Contact:
Andre Fuochi
IBM Media Relations
afuochi@us.ibm.com
(469) 394-7274
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