Coraid Joins Best Practices Laboratory for Entertainment Technology

CORAID, Inc. has joined the Best Practices Laboratory for Entertainment Technology (BPL), a non-profit independent entertainment technology laboratory showcasing innovative technologies, new methodologies and best practices for creative digital content production and distribution.

The proliferation of new digital distribution channels such as Digital Cinema, VOD, IPTV, iTV, and Mobile TV, etc. makes it increasingly more challenging to meet the storage requirements throughout the creation, distribution, and exhibition chain. Leveraging the latest in server virtualization technologies, CORAID EtherDrive SAN delivers affordably fast network storage for high value creative digital content.

"The methods and complexity for the creation and distribution of creative content is growing exponentially, thus the need to demonstrate the latest technologies and best practices to store this high value digital content throughout the workflow," said David Haines, Executive Director, BPL. "We welcome CORAID’s participation and the virtualization infrastructure storage area network expertise it brings to help fulfill our mission to demonstrate disruptive emergent technologies. The Best Practices Laboratory is the perfect facility for CORAID to showcase its innovative EtherDrive SAN family of network storage products to the entertainment community."

"CORAID EtherDrive SAN products provide a complete solution for extreme performance storage area networks delivering mission-critical digital content for applications with the most demanding workloads," said James Kemp, CEO of CORAID. "Our EtherDrive SAN solutions are highly scalable and empower enterprises to focus on streamlining, consolidation, and efficiency through server virtualization. We are excited to be a part of the BPL and look forward to working with the lab to showcase innovative network storage technologies for the entertainment industry."

The Best Practices Laboratory for Entertainment Technology provides the entertainment industry with a neutral environment to innovate, facilitate and educate. Located in the heart of Hollywood at the historic Raleigh Studios, the BPL enables access to leading Hollywood technology decision makers through conferences and showcase events to top industry executives from The Walt Disney Company, Entertainment Technology Center, SONY Pictures, THX, and others.

Committed to a sustainable corporate concept of linked prosperity, BPL member organizations are introduced to other complimentary technologies for possible collaboration and commercial revenue opportunities. CORAID joins other member organizations including MXI Security, Entertainment Security Technology Council (ESTC), Asankya Networks, and Lower Mars, in support of the Best Practices Laboratory mission to enable entertainment technology innovation and education, and to improve the quality of life locally, nationally and internationally.