It is with great pleasure that we announce the immediate availability of three major product upgrades within our fasp™ suite of products introduced in Spring 2009:
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Aspera faspex™ Server version 1.6
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Aspera Console version 1.4
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Aspera Connect version 2.3
Each product upgrade includes several exciting new capabilities – detailed below – and is available at no charge to all customers with a product license and a current support and maintenance contract.
To upgrade, please visit our software download section and refer to the release notes on the product download page, or contact Aspera support for questions or upgrade assistance.
For the detailed list of new functionality and fixed issues, please refer to the product release notes linked with the product download.
Finally, please note that a beta release of the anticipated next-generation desktop GUI for our Enterprise Server, Point-to-Point, and Client transfer applications is now available for Windows platforms, and will move to general release in the next few weeks. To try this beta release, please contact your Aspera sales representative.
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Aspera faspex™ Server version 1.6
- Native integration with Windows Active Directory – automatically authorize AD users and groups to the Aspera faspex™ Server.
- Server-to-server relay – automatically relay packages between Aspera faspex™ Servers within your enterprise.
- Third-party certified for security – received high marks in an independent security evaluation.
- New content and user security options:
- Auto expiration of user accounts.
- Restrict accounts to upload or download only, allowed IPs.
- New options for public drop-boxes and fully private workgroups.
- Encryption-at-rest integration.
- Custom meta-data validation for package sending – server configuration allows custom, validated input fields in the "Send" screen.
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Aspera Console version 1.4
- New server node configuration:
- Automatically add new nodes, configure all server policies by server, user and group.
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- Schedule aggregate bandwidth targets (vlinks) by time of day.
- Enable new disk-based rate control.
- Enhanced reporting and control of active transfers:
- Filter and search by user, job or file name.
- Hot-folder transfer management – tailored display, bandwidth control and email notification.
- Enhanced ad hoc transfers with partner sites.
- Enhanced file browser displays directory attributes and supports create, rename, and delete.
- Advanced bandwidth priority options and full support for all fasp™ transfer attributes.
- Periodic transfer scheduling.
- Multi-site transfer workflows.
- Advanced transfer options configurable per destination.
- Customizable email notification templates per recipient and per destination.
- Support for ssh public-private keys for node configuration and transfers.
- Access control groups:
- Streamlined display of effective group permissions to monitor, control, and initiate transfers by server and by transfer path.
- Dramatically enhanced reporting engine:
- Comprehensive, configurable reports summarized by file, user and IP address.
- Tailored reporting for billing with several sorting and filtering dimensions, including file names, size, cookie metadata, user, IP, application and time.
- Export to CSV and XML formats.
- Scales well for ultra-large transfer databases:
- Includes new options to filter resumed or empty sessions.
- Customizable email notifications:
- HTML wizard to configure custom email content and look-and-feel
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Aspera Connect version 2.3
- New transfer queuing - start and queue a configurable number of concurrent transfers.
- Enhanced support for encryption-at-rest with the Aspera faspex™ Server and third-party web applications, including strong passwords, password confirmation, and right-click file decrypt capability.
- Reports entire session progress if enabled on server.
- Improved Windows installer.
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