Aspera Managed File Transfer Reviews

Vendor: IBM

3.8 out of 5

4 reviews
80% willing to recommend

What is Aspera Managed File Transfer?

IBM Aspera takes a different approach to tackling the challenges of big data movement over global WANs. Rather than optimize or accelerate data transfer, Aspera eliminates underlying bottlenecks by using its proprietary fasp technology that fully utilizes available network bandwidth to maximize speed and quickly scale up with no theoretical limit. Using fasp, transfers are secure end-to-end and are largely unaffected by file size, transfer distance, or network conditions, making transfer times up to 100Xs faster than TCP-based protocols.

IBM Aspera offers SaaS, on-prem, and hybrid solutions to meet the needs of modernizing infrastructures. All solutions offer robust security and compliance, intuitive file sharing, workflow automation, central administration, and real-time visibility. Quickly and easily initiate transfers across hybrid infrastructures, including support for cloud-to-cloud transfers. IBM Aspera offers unmatched transfer speeds, end-to-end security, reliability, and exceptional bandwidth control.

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Aspera Managed File Transfer is the #12 ranked solution in top Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions. PeerSpot users give Aspera Managed File Transfer an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. Aspera Managed File Transfer is most commonly compared to webMethods.io: Aspera Managed File Transfer vs webMethods.io. Aspera Managed File Transfer is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 74% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Michele Illiano

Head of Division at Innovery

Aspera Managed File Transfer should be packaged into another solution. Explaining to customers you need to have multiple solutions from multiple vendors for their use cases can get complicated for them to understand. The best way to propose a suite is to have an integrated suite where the customer could choose to license part of it. This solution could be one solution not two choices between 10 or 12 different solutions. The main feature of Aspera Managed File Transfer is the communication protocol, which is fast. There are a lot of different clients that are offering features related to these fast protocols. It's possible to create one unique suite that can handle this base protocol. It will be quite easy to propose to the customers.

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Balamurugan Kumarasamy

Deputy General Manager Information Technology at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There are other products of Aspera which come as add-ons, however, we haven't purchased those, like report generation, since that was not our requirement. The features we needed were included in the basic edition, and that works for us. If there is any failure in the data transfer and it can automatically detect and reinitiate it, that would be great.

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Khaled AlKadi

Sales Director at Jordan Business Systems

Aspera Managed File Transfer is an optimal solution for customers who want to transfer large files to remote sites with lower bandwidth and in less time The solution's pricing calculation needs revision to be more competitive I have been using Aspera Managed File Transfer for ten years. Aspera…

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Aspera Managed File Transfer mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of Aspera Managed File Transfer in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category stands at 3.2%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

Aspera Managed File Transfer offers an intuitive user interface and allows multiple file transfer setups. Users benefit from its incredibly fast protocol, utilizing all available bandwidth for transferring large data volumes. It is suitable for transmitting sizable files to remote sites quickly, even with limited bandwidth. Organizations have bypassed challenges like the China firewall and maximized bandwidth usage, achieving cost savings compared to SD-WAN alternatives.

"We were able to effectively nullify the China firewall since the China firewall was disrupting our data transfer."
"We were able to effectively nullify the China firewall since the China firewall was disrupting our data transfer."
"Aspera Managed File Transfer is an optimal solution for customers who want to transfer large files to remote sites with lower bandwidth and in less time."

Room for Improvement

Aspera Managed File Transfer's licensing model needs simplification with more flexible upgrade options. Users desire an integrated suite to avoid using multiple vendor solutions. Communication protocol speed is a strong feature, yet packaging needs consolidation. Pricing should be more competitive. Automatic data transfer recovery is sought by many. Customer guidance can be improved with a quick start wizard for easier implementation. The possibility to add to existing licenses for capacity increases would be appreciated.

"If you want to do a file transfer between two countries, and one is not China, then you have other more affordable options."
"If there is any failure in the data transfer and it can automatically detect and reinitiate it, that would be great."
"The solution's pricing is high and should be reduced."

Pricing

"It was close to $10,000 to $20,000."
"Aspera Managed File Transfer is not an inexpensive solution. I am not aware of many competitors to determine how affordable the price is overall."

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