Introduction

IBM Aspera Shares is a multinode web transfer application that enables companies to share content in the form of files and directories of any size within their organization or with external customers and partners. You can deploy Shares as either of the following:

Shares is powered by IBM Aspera Enterprise Server, which features the Aspera Node API, a daemon providing REST-enabled file operations and a transfer management API.

Shares is capable of managing one or more transfer nodes, which can be local, remote, or cloud-based file systems. Transfer nodes are accessed using the Aspera Node API, which is activated by the Aspera Enterprise Server license.

With Shares you can perform the following tasks: