GIGAOM : Underlying all the useful and inspiring applications, like Hadoop, that have emerged out of the Big Data ecosystem, there’s a fundamental assumption: The data that companies want will be able to be accessed when companies want and need it. That functionality requires the ability to transfer files at the speeds that people expect it, and is one of the constraints of the big data world, explained Michelle Munson, CEO and co-founder of Aspera.
Aspera has built a proprietary high-speed file-transport technology, fasp, that helps data move across networks with issues like over-burdened WANs. Aspera is primarily the province of large companies dealing with big data, from digital media companies sending content among supply chain partners to life sciences researchers sending genome-sequencing data among institutes to government intelligence customers sending video files between agencies.
Munson said current Internet infrastructure lacks three qualities:
- availability
- geographic independence
- security
While all these issues need to be addressed in the fundamental architecture itself, the constraint has created an opportunity for Aspera’s transfer product. The reliability of Internet services is going up, which creates an expectation that this data will be available quickly, said Ammar Hanafi, general partner with Alloy Ventures[...] View More...>>
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