Overview of Aspera for SharePoint

IBM Aspera for Microsoft SharePoint allows you to transfer and store a high volume of data, quickly. It extends the capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 so that you can transfer larger files and maintain a larger database than SharePoint alone permits.

Benefits and Limitations of Microsoft SharePoint

SharePoint has been widely adopted for its document archive, workflow, and search features. Its users benefit from a robust community for support and third-party applications. But it also places limitations on

speed of data transfer
size of files
number of files
size of content repository

In addition, SharePoint offers limited options for the storage backend.

SharePoint with Aspera

With Aspera for Sharepoint, you extend the base functionality of SharePoint and avoid these limitations. You can

Transfer large files beyond SharePoint’s 2 GB file size limit.
Quickly transfer large numbers of files and folders.
House an unlimited number of files in your SharePoint Document Library.
(If you need to house more than 5,000 files, you must make a small change to the SharePoint configuration.¹)

With these enhancements, SharePoint can gain wider adoption in your organization; and you can increase the return on your software and storage investments.