LucidLink and CIS Group partner to bring cloud-native, high-performance NAS to LATAM
Davie, FL, October 5th, 2021 – CIS Group Corporation, a leading digital media systems designer and integrator, today announced its partnership with LucidLink, an innovator in cloud file technology.
LucidLink’s Filespaces, the first-of-its-kind, cloud-native, SaaS-based NAS solution is ideal for media & entertainment organizations, as well as content teams that would like to leverage cloud storage economics, scalability, and elasticity to transform their workflows, increase production output and reduce friction for creatives, ultimately increasing ROI per asset. Built-in software, running on the endpoint, delivered as SaaS, with no middleware and no appliance, virtual or physical. LucidLink delivers cloud-based storage with the functionality and performance you expect from an on-prem NAS.
A Filespace is a shared global namespace that acts like any other high-performance network-attached storage (NAS) even though the data is hosted in the cloud. Designed to address the business needs around storing large data sets on and off- premises and accessing them over distance, distributed teams get secure, on-demand access to digital assets, and can collaborate on files, in the cloud, from anywhere.
By utilizing LucidLink’s technology as a central repository in the cloud, production and post-production teams can store, share, edit and collaborate from anywhere:
• Rapidly ingest hi-res footage for immediate access anywhere
• Video and audio post-production editing directly in the cloud
• Provide remote access to large VFX shot sequences
Ultimately, LucidLink is effectively used as if it were a local drive, all while enabling users to reap the benefits of the cloud, allowing them to:
✓ Optimize production workflow: access cloud-stored assets as if they are on a local drive; collaborate on files in real-time
✓ Save time: no longer need to download and upload data; eliminate the need to deploy and set up hardware; no specialized training required
✓ Reduce costs: No hardware investment based on provisioning for peak demand; decrease IT management overhead; replace traditional on-prem NAS with cloud storage that is actually affordable; pay only for the capacity used
As part of the engagement, CIS Group will serve as LucidLink’s primary go-to-market channel for Latin America, focused on the media & entertainment space. As a result of this partnership, clients working with CIS will benefit from the company’s 30+ years of media technology expertise, as well as from CIS’s team of solutions architects and workflow specialists that ensure any given workflow is designed, configured, and deployed with the client’s objectives in mind, all while still paying the same price on LucidLink’s solution.
Commenting on the partnership, CIS Group’s CEO Matt Silva said “LucidLink is some of the coolest and most disruptive technology that I’ve seen in a while. The fact of the matter is that the way in which Filespaces processes data ultimately addresses the issues of latency over significant distance that have proven a barrier to more efficient remote collaboration for content creators. This solution completely changes the landscape of production and post-production by offering a reasonably priced, extremely fast, technologically innovative, and user / use case-centric cloud-native file system for creatives of all types – video and audio editors, producers, colorists, you name it. When coupled with the media & entertainment expertise that we have at CIS Group, this is a solution that will be impacting the way content gets made for years to come.”
LucidLink addresses the pain point of providing shared storage for collaboration, enabling users access to shared data from multiple remote locations, allowing them to have immediate access to data from anywhere in the world, as an extension of their local drive, making cloud services much more accessible, scalable, and affordable.
“LucidLink is excited to partner with CIS Group, an Adobe Certified Service Partner that has been providing innovative media production and workflow design solutions to a wide variety of industry verticals such as M&E, Broadcast, Sports, Corporate Marketing and more for over 30 years,” said Scott Miller, Director of Business Development at LucidLink. “With both a broad and deep knowledge of media-related, end-to-end workflows, CIS quickly saw the value LucidLink could offer their customers and possesses the technical knowledge to be an elite Systems Integrator. CIS recognizes that media production is in the process of being dramatically disrupted by technologies like LucidLink and will play a key role in expanding our presence in Latin America and the United States.”
About CIS Group
Established in 1988, CIS Group’s history includes a lot of evolution as a result of the team’s desire and ability to always stay ahead of the curve. CIS Group’s mission is to continue to be a true digital media solutions integrator to serve the content production market. Covering both Brazil and the United States extensively, CIS is considered a reference in the systems integration space as a result of its specializations in content production & post-production, solutions for broadcast & news, workflows for asset management systems, acquisition, shared storage, media services, graphics and multi- platform distribution on-premises or in the cloud.
Headquartered in Davie, FL, CIS has offices and field presences in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo); Boston, MA; and Charlotte, NC, serving markets globally. Learn more at www.cisgroup.tv.
About LucidLink
LucidLink offers an innovative cloud-native file service designed specifically for extensive data access over distance. LucidLink Filespaces provides best-in-class security and high-performance scalability to run file-based workloads on object storage for maximum efficiency and productivity. The service is compatible with Azure Blob and any S3 compatible object storage provider that utilizes the cloud, on-prem, or hybrid storage. It supports all major operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and macOS. Investors include Baseline Ventures, Headline, Adobe, Bright Cap Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, S28 Capital, and Fathom Capital. LucidLink is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in Bulgaria, Europe, and Australia. For more information about LucidLink, please contact info@lucidlink.com. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and visit us at www.lucidlink.com.
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