Introduction

IBM Aspera Shares on Demand is a multi-node 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. 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. You can deploy Shares on Demand as either of the following:

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

With Shares you can perform the following tasks: