Drive with Aspera on Cloud

You can use Drive in conjunction with IBM Aspera on Cloud, a SaaS platform for file transfer and collaboration.

When Aspera on Cloud is integrated into Drive, you can do the following:

  • See all your Aspera on Cloud workspaces, files, and packages (sent, received, and archived) in a single view in the file browser.
  • Share content with members of your organization.
  • Send packages to an Aspera on Cloud inbox.
  • See previews of image files.
  • Transfer files and folders between your client computer and the server using the Windows Explorer file browser interface, with the following standard Windows Explorer functions:
    • browsing files and folders
    • transferring files to and from your transfer account
    • drag-and-drop 1
    • creating new folders
    • copy-and-paste
Note: Drive does not currently support adding metadata to packages that it sends. Therefore, ensure that Aspera on Cloud is not configured to have any required metadata fields when sending packages. You can configure optional metadata fields, but Drive will ignore them.

For detailed information on using Aspera on Cloud, see the Help Center within the Aspera on Cloud application.

1 You may not download an entire shared folder by drag-and-drop. Instead, select contents of the folder to download.