Aspera’s Michelle Munson to share cloud expertise with media and entertainment leaders at SMPTE Hollywood event

Joins speakers from Dreamworks Animation and HBO to discuss ‘Motion Pictures in the Cloud – Economics, Security & Architecture’

EMERYVILLE, Calif., — January 22, 2014 — Aspera, Inc., creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s large data at maximum speed, today announced that president, CEO and co-founder Michelle Munson will present at ‘Motion Pictures in the Cloud – Economics, Security & Architecture’. Organized by SMPTE Hollywood Section, the event takes place on Tuesday, January 28 at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.

The sold-out event will feature presentations from industry leaders about real-world technologies for moving images using cloud services. Michelle will join speakers including Lincoln Wallen, CTO of Dreamworks Animation, and Stephen Beres, Technology Architect, HBO Studios West, in sharing their experiences in using the cloud to meet creative and logistical needs in digital motion picture and television production, storage, delivery and archive.

Based on Aspera’s Emmy® award-winning FASP™ technology, Aspera On Demand enables seamless, line-speed transfers of very large files and sets of files to, from, and across the cloud-based object storage of virtually every environment. The Aspera software platform turbo charges content delivery, with maximum-speed transfers at any distance, and creates a unique overlay for content security on top of the infrastructure, managing secure user authentication, content browsing, and access control across all major cloud and enterprise storage platforms.

About Aspera
Aspera, an IBM® Company, is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Based on its patented, Emmy® award-winning FASP protocol, Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file-transfer experience. Aspera’s core technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and uncompromising reliability. Over 2,200 organizations across a variety of industries on six continents rely on Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their digital assets.

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