Brightdrive Overview

Three steps ahead - truly innovative.

Designed for shared media environments, BrightDrive appliances provide predictable performance via a high speed architecture and low-latency design. They’re loaded with unique features, functionality, and tools that you’ll find nowhere else. Having earned a best-in-class reputation in the demanding Media & Entertainment market, the BrightDrive SAN Server is equally at home supporting upstream processing of seismic imagery in Oil & Gas, 2D/3D tomography scans in Healthcare, and training, education, and surveillance video needs for Corporate & Government markets.

Unlike solutions from other manufacturers that claim to handle the phenomenon of permanent loss of performance and speed, BrightDrive permanently overcomes this industry-wide problem by eliminating the root cause: randomization. Bright Technologies’ edge lies in BrightClip®, our patented technology that proactively maintains optimal file arrangement on the storage - continually and always up-to-date.

Over 150 deployments worldwide prove us right.

The most important features you need to know about BrightDrive Low-latency SAN Server:

Agnostic

BrightDrive Media File Server is agnostic regarding everything that is important to you:

• Storage – no need for investment in new storage
• Applications – keep your favorite best-of-breeds applications
• Protocol – build on your existing preferred fabric
• Resolution – a resolution independent platform.
• Format – supports all industry-wide formats

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Maintenance-free

BrightClip ® Advanced Recording Technology is one of the features of all BrightDrive appliances. This one-of-a-kind sequence aware file recording technology eliminates system degradation through fragmentation, randomization, and interleaved files. This makes BrightDrive the only file server with a maintenance-free file system.

The result:
• Keep the performance at peak – always.
• Dramatically increase uptime.
• Maximize data security by allocating files consistently

ROI Example

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ROI example for BrightDrive

Workflow Booster

BrightDrive provides you with the highest level of operational stability by keeping the file allocations aligned - automatically.

With BrightDrive, priority interruptions are a thing of the past. Dramatically increase productivity and reduce 'time to completion' due to real-time collaboration between all clients and no unplanned downtime - ever.

Cost Saver

With more uptime and less maintenance effort, BrightDrive decreases maintenance costs. BrightDrive's own "Virtual SCSI Device" in the Procyon and Triton appliances reduces costs on meta-data devices, hardware, and maintenance. In addition, your infrastructure will consume less power and cooling.

Perfect Overview and Easy Troubleshooting

BrightDrive comes with a unique server management & diagnostic software that ensures fast, efficient and reliable issue isolation and resolution – even for all attached components. These troubleshooting features enable the system administrator to quickly isolate detected errors – and reduce unpredictable performance significantly.

BrightDrive is also "transparent" for those who work with it:

• Secure web-based Administrative Interface
• High Transparency Monitoring Suite (except BrightDrive Astella)