Why Blackwave: The Whitebox Labyrinth
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Avoid the pitfalls and performance issues of “do-it-yourself” video storage and delivery
Building a whitebox solution looks easy at first. As you scale, add more streaming protocols, and manage dynamic loads for hot and cold content, the task gets quite complicated very quickly.
Contemplating a whitebox solution for your problems? Here’s why you should consider Blackwave:
- Our team understands the subtleties of storage issues based on a core competency in distributed computing.
- Blackwave’s distributed architecture is optimized with unique storage and delivery protocols that traditional storage systems lack.
- We’ve spent years in R & D to create the Blackwave solution and we’ve learned a lot of challenging lessons along the way.
| Whitebox problem | Blackwave Solution |
| Hot content needs to be replicated more than cold content. How do you do that dynamically? Who is responsible for shifting cold content when it becomes hot, and hot becomes cold? | Dynamically provision content to maximize bandwidth for your hot content and save resources for your cold content |
| Can you afford a whole rack of equipment when a Blackwave system can do it in ¼ the space? | Maximal streaming from SATA drives allows you to accomplish more with less and translates to both low power and a low footprint |
| How do you find a title, especially if the title is moved to optimize its delivery | Load content without worrying about where it is stored or how it is streamed |
| Distributed disk repair is non-standard and complex to implement | Ensures there is no single point of failure as well as self-healing of drive failures |
Simply stated, we don’t believe that any whitebox solution will be as easily manageable, high performing, and scalable as a Blackwave System, at an affordable price.
The Blackwave solution is fully tested, supported and available for delivery today.