A Secure Aspera Alternative at a Fraction of the Cost

Our user-friendly interface and fast onboarding make managed file transfer easier for your team, clients, and IT admins.

Automate send, receive, and ingest to on-premises/cloud storage through our interface or API.

No upfront or extra fees for seats or traffic. Save tens of thousands on training and maintenance costs alone.

Saturate up to 10 Gbps without splitting bandwidth; share unlimited volumes at high speed faster than Aspera on Cloud.

MASV is as secure, if not more secure, than Aspera. In 2023, Aspera fell victim to a zero-day vulnerability attack. Aspera requires all users, senders, and recipients to have port access to a central server, creating a network of vulnerable devices, making it an attractive target for hackers. In contrast, MASV is a web-based secure managed file transfer platform that operates independently from your server, eliminating the need to open ports or grant privileged access to internal systems. Additionally, MASV is a TPN Gold Shield vendor and ISO-certified, offering SAML-based multi-factor authentication for added security.

MASV and Aspera operate on a usage-based model, but MASV costs less per seat and gigabyte with fewer additional expenses. While both charge $250 for one terabyte, MASV provides unlimited seating at no extra cost. Aspera’s unlimited seating plan is significantly more expensive, with 10 TB costing $16,000 whereas MASV offers the same amount for $1,000 with a prepaid discount. Aspera also requires additional fees for IT team reservations, unlike MASV, which is web-based and accessible via a browser, reducing IT spend.

MASV empowers everyday users with workflow automation. With just a few clicks, users can effortlessly create automation rules to send and receive large files to and from recipients and automatically ingest them into local, on-premises, hybrid cloud, and cloud storage.

Absolutely. MASV offers data observability and file transfer activity monitoring from the browser. A Usage Dashboard shows real-time usage of how many gigabytes have been transferred so far, as well as how much data is in MASV cloud storage. Transfer activity can be monitored at a glance in Transfer History; a detailed delivery log that includes sender, recipient, and package information.

MASV and Aspera offer a range of storage options and connect to external cloud and on-premises storage. MASV allows users to dictate storage preferences, while Aspera enforces adoption of IBM cloud storage. Aspera provides 10 TB of storage with 100 TB of egress under its Advanced plans, with additional storage available for purchase. MASV offers its storage as an optional add-on, encouraging users to bring their own storage, whether cloud or SAN. MASV supports more than 20 cloud storage and media asset management providers including S3, Azure, Google Cloud, and Frame.io, while Aspera supports only Amazon S3, Azure, and Google Cloud, requiring all other storage to be on their platform.

IBM Aspera solution provides documentation for self-serve support and a ticket system for technical assistance. But as the European Broadcasting Union will attest to, IBM’s support is not sufficient when it comes to critical Aspera issues. MASV, on the other hand, has a live chat that is monitored by a real human being. Our response time is less than a minute during business hours, with email support available 24/7 and a regularly updated Help portal.

As its name suggests, MASV is ideal for handling massive files and offers powerful file sharing capabilities for big data. It can efficiently transfer various types of bulk data, including raw media, high-resolution images, video files, AI datasets, and more. MASV can handle up to 15 terabytes per file, with no restrictions on the number of files per data transfer, enabling virtually unlimited high performance file sharing.