Bright Technologies: New Gen of SAN Servers

Bright Technologies, Inc., developer of technology for shared media, has announced plans to present its new generation of BrightDrive servers at NAB 2012.

Designed and developed to address the demands of the media and entertainment industry, Procyon and Triton answer the need for economical, compact, eco-friendly media file servers with a set of features and functionalities that increase productivity and maximize profitability via real-time collaboration between all clients.

The servers incorporate Bright’s software, including the new patent-pending BrightClip 2.0 recording technology. More than just file allocation, it permanently overcomes the industry-wide problem of degradation by eliminating fragmentation, randomization and inter-leaved frames.

              Procyon

Procyon, the next generation of Bright’s G2 Pro, packs a punch from a 3U footprint. The high-availability server utilizes integrated connectivity, eliminating the need for extraneous components, to offer an out-of-the-box experience. Procyon features a hardware platform plus a current and stable software foundation – including support of StorNext 4.2.

Triton
The new Triton elevates BrightDrive G2, its predecessor, to a higher level. The server answers the need for an attractively priced, green solution that occupies a single rack unit. Triton also supports StorNext 4.2.

In addition, Procyon and Triton eco-friendly designs lower cooling requirements and significantly reduce power costs. The servers’ agnostic architecture allow facilities to interface with their preferred applications, protocol, resolution, and formats, eliminating the need for investment in new storage. They offer a high level of operational stability, consistent and predictable performance, and high-speed access. Both BrightDrives are equipped with GUI’s (graphical user interfaces) for monitoring and administration.

Bright File Management
Bright’s sequence aware file management software solutions, designed for the media and entertainment industry, offer features that simplify the daily business of data wrangling and file optimization and help increase system performance. Available as graphical and command-line file managers plus a sequence-aware defragmentation tool.

DataMover
DataMover with scripting power offers additional features in creative and innovative processes and create customized workflow automation. It proactively prevents fragmented, randomized and interleaved file layout in every copy operation it performs. Key features include 3D stereoscopic optimizer, bandwidth-throttling, change number of copy threads and buffers, log transfer performance by file and by buffer, multipath optimized for writing destination file.

DataOptimizer
DataOptimizer offers features tailored to the needs of the media and entertainment industry. With its multi-threaded intelligence, it restores the performance of the file system but by being sequence-aware, it creates large contiguous portions of files thus generating higher levels of throughput, thus bringing improved efficiency to the workflow – sequentially.